Looking for a free alternative to Mistral Open Models (Magistral, Devstral, Voxtral)? Here are 9 notable open models worth trying — 9 with a free tier. Mistral Open Models (Magistral, Devstral, Voxtral) itself is free.
| Tool | Mistral Open Models (Magistral, Devstral, Voxtral) (you searched) | Qwen (Alibaba) | DeepSeek Models | OLMo (Ai2) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pricing | free | free | free | free |
| Best for | Open-weight Mistral Medium 3.5, Small 4 and Large 3 general models | Open Qwen3.x family from phone-sized to multi-trillion-parameter MoE, Apache 2.0 | DeepSeek V4-Pro and V4-Flash open-weight MoE models, MIT-licensed | Only major model family shipping full pretraining data (Dolma), code and intermediate checkpoints, not just weights |
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Qwen (Alibaba) is the closest free alternative to Mistral Open Models (Magistral, Devstral, Voxtral): same Notable Open Models sub-category, and it is free. Open Qwen3.x family from phone-sized to multi-trillion-parameter MoE, Apache 2.0
Yes — 9 of the 9 alternatives listed here are free or freemium: Qwen (Alibaba), DeepSeek Models, OLMo (Ai2), Hunyuan (Tencent), Falcon (TII). None of them are paid-only.
Mistral Open Models (Magistral, Devstral, Voxtral) is free. There is no paid plan attached to it in the catalog.
They are the other tools in Notable Open Models, then the rest of AI Models & Local Execution, ordered free tiers first and capped at 9. There is no sponsorship and no paid placement in that ordering — only the pricing tier decides.
✦ WhyA Mistral Open Models (Magistral, Devstral, Voxtral) alternative — Open Qwen3.x family from phone-sized to multi-trillion-parameter MoE, Apache 2.0.
✦ WhyA Mistral Open Models (Magistral, Devstral, Voxtral) alternative — DeepSeek V4-Pro and V4-Flash open-weight MoE models, MIT-licensed.
✦ WhyA Mistral Open Models (Magistral, Devstral, Voxtral) alternative — Only major model family shipping full pretraining data (Dolma), code and intermediate checkpoints, not just weights.
✦ WhyA Mistral Open Models (Magistral, Devstral, Voxtral) alternative — Open-weight Hunyuan Hy3 and Hy4-preview flagship text models.
✦ WhyA Mistral Open Models (Magistral, Devstral, Voxtral) alternative — Falcon-H1 hybrid Transformer-Mamba family for efficient long-context inference.
✦ WhyA Mistral Open Models (Magistral, Devstral, Voxtral) alternative — MiniMax's open-weight M-series: M3 multimodal MoE with very long context, plus M2.x agentic-coding checkpoints.
✦ WhyA Mistral Open Models (Magistral, Devstral, Voxtral) alternative — MiMo-V2.6-Pro (1T parameters) and V2.6-Flash (311B) open-weight reasoning and agent models.
✦ WhyA Mistral Open Models (Magistral, Devstral, Voxtral) alternative — Step-3.7-Flash open multimodal model with FP8, NVFP4 and GGUF builds.
✦ WhyA Mistral Open Models (Magistral, Devstral, Voxtral) alternative — ERNIE-4.5 family including 21B-A3B Thinking and VL-424B-A47B multimodal MoE.