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) | Llama (Meta) | Qwen (Alibaba) | DeepSeek Models |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pricing | free | free | free | free |
| Best for | Devstral: open coding-agent model tuned for SWE-bench-style tasks | Meta's flagship open-weight family (Llama 4) | State-of-the-art open MoE models (Qwen3.x) | Open V3-series and R1 reasoning models |
| Visit | Open ↗ | Open ↗ | Open ↗ | Open ↗ |
Llama (Meta) is the closest free alternative to Mistral Open Models (Magistral, Devstral, Voxtral): same Notable Open Models sub-category, and it is free. Meta's flagship open-weight family (Llama 4)
Yes — 9 of the 9 alternatives listed here are free or freemium: Llama (Meta), Qwen (Alibaba), DeepSeek Models, Gemma (Google), GPT-OSS (OpenAI). 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 — Meta's flagship open-weight family (Llama 4).
✦ WhyA Mistral Open Models (Magistral, Devstral, Voxtral) alternative — State-of-the-art open MoE models (Qwen3.x).
✦ WhyA Mistral Open Models (Magistral, Devstral, Voxtral) alternative — Open V3-series and R1 reasoning models.
✦ WhyA Mistral Open Models (Magistral, Devstral, Voxtral) alternative — Google's lightweight open models (Gemma 4).
✦ WhyA Mistral Open Models (Magistral, Devstral, Voxtral) alternative — OpenAI's open-weight reasoning models.
✦ WhyA Mistral Open Models (Magistral, Devstral, Voxtral) alternative — Fully open-weight, open-dataset small language models (350M-3B) explicitly built for EU AI Act compliance.
✦ WhyA Mistral Open Models (Magistral, Devstral, Voxtral) alternative — Apache 2.0 licensed enterprise-grade model family.
✦ 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 large text MoE models (Hunyuan A13B/Hy3 series) with permissive commercial license.