---
title: "Mistral Education Plan"
slug: "mistral-education-plan"
provider: "Mistral AI"
status: "listed"
listedAt: "2026-11-06"
canonical: "https://aifree.dev/offer/mistral-education-plan"
---

# Mistral Education Plan

> Mistral Pro for students at $5.99/month with $165 of model usage each month

- Provider: [Mistral AI](https://aifree.dev/provider/mistral-ai)
- What is free: $165
- Status: listed, not yet verified
- Credit card: required
- Sign-up: required
- For: Students
- Claim at: https://mistral.ai/pricing

## What you get

Mistral Pro at a student price: $150 of Vibe Code usage and $15 of Studio API usage every month, one budget for any model incl. GLM 5.3, GLM 5.3 Flash and DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017, plus Vibe Work chat.

## The catch

Paid plan ($5.99/month plus tax, card at checkout), only for verified students who never used Vibe or Le Chat, for up to 12 months.

## Eligibility

Verified students at accredited higher-education institutions who have never used Vibe or Le Chat; up to 12 months.
- Verified students at accredited higher institutions
- Only if you haven't used Vibe (or Le Chat) before
- Valid for a maximum of 12 months
- Student email at an accredited higher-education institution
- Never used Vibe or Le Chat before
- Card payment of $5.99/month (taxes may apply)

## Limits

- Costs $5.99/month (Pro is normally $14.99); taxes may apply by country
- $150/month Vibe Code usage: Vibe CLI, VS Code extension, Vibe web
- $15/month Studio API usage via a console.mistral.ai API key
- The $150 Vibe allowance is not on the pricing page; it shows on the Subscription page after you subscribe
- Valid for up to 12 months
- Subject to fair usage limits and Mistral's Terms of Service
- Vibe key works in OpenCode, but may be less token-efficient than Vibe CLI

## Models served free

Published free-tier rate limits; "—" = not published.

| Model | API id | Context (k tokens) | Tool calling | Vision | RPM | RPD | TPM |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| GLM 5.3 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| GLM 5.3 Flash | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |

## Details

## Overview

[Mistral AI](https://mistral.ai/pricing)'s Education plan is Mistral Pro at a student price: **$5.99/month** instead of $14.99, with smaller limits. Each month it includes **$165 of model usage**, about $27 of usage for every $1 you pay.

## What You Get Each Month

- **$150 Vibe Code usage**: Vibe CLI, the VS Code extension and Vibe on the web
- **$15 Studio API usage**: any model through a Studio API key
- **Vibe Work**: chat, web search and image generation on web and mobile

The $150 Vibe allowance is not listed on the pricing page; it appears on your Subscription page after you subscribe. We tested it: both the $150 and the $15 showed up, and GLM and DeepSeek models ran on both keys.

## What $165 Buys

One budget, any model:

- **All on GLM 5.3**: $165+ of usage. Cached tokens cost $0.14/M on Mistral vs $0.26/M at Z.ai.
- **All on GLM 5.3 Flash**: $165, the same price as Z.ai.
- **All on DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017**: about $75–135 at DeepSeek's own prices, because Mistral always bills the standard rate and never DeepSeek's off-peak rate.

## How to Get Started

1. Sign up at Mistral with your student email.
2. On [mistral.ai/pricing](https://mistral.ai/pricing), click **I'm a student** and check out with a card.
3. Copy your Vibe key (the $150) from [chat.mistral.ai/code/extensions](https://chat.mistral.ai/code/extensions) → Advanced.
4. Create a Studio key (the $15) at [console.mistral.ai/api-keys](https://console.mistral.ai/api-keys).
5. Use both keys in Vibe CLI or OpenCode and add the models to the config to spend the full $165. The Vibe key works in OpenCode, but may be less token-efficient than Vibe CLI.

## Eligibility

- Verified students at accredited higher-education institutions
- Only if you have never used Vibe or Le Chat
- Valid for up to 12 months
- Taxes may apply depending on your country (we paid $5.99 flat)

## Not a Student?

Mistral Pro costs $14.99/month and includes $25.50/month in API credits; users report about $300 of Vibe Code usage per month.

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