---
type: entity
subtype: organization
title: "Mistral"
description: "French AI lab and LLM provider whose models were added to the bolt.new fork as a first-class API integration by popular community request."
resource: "https://mistral.ai"
tags: [organization, llm-provider, open-source, community]
videos: [this-boltnew-fork-is-exploding-dont-miss-out-on-whats-happening]
created: 2026-07-21
updated: 2026-07-21
---

# Mistral

Mistral is the French AI lab whose models earned a first-class API integration in Cole's fork of [bolt.new](../tools/bolt-new.md) purely on community demand: "the addition of mistol a lot of people like using mistol so this is a great API integration as well" ([0:05:53]). The detail is small but it is exactly how [Community-Driven Development](../../concepts/community-driven-development.md) works in that project. The fork's founding purpose was to break the official version's single-model limitation, so every merged provider integration is a vote from contributors about which models people actually want to code with, and Mistral arrived in the same changelog wave as the [DeepSeek](./deepseek.md) integration and a generic OpenAI-compatible adapter.

Mistral's presence matters most as [Provider Independence](../../concepts/provider-independence.md) made concrete. [oTToDev](../tools/ottodev.md), later [bolt.diy](../tools/bolt-diy.md), treats the model as a swappable dependency rather than a fixed part of the product, so a European lab's API sits beside closed frontier models, [Groq](./groq.md)-hosted open weights, and locally-served models through [Ollama](../tools/ollama.md) behind the same interface. That turns [Model Selection](../../concepts/model-selection.md) into a per-user choice made in the UI, and it lets the project pursue [Local and Self-Hosted AI](../../concepts/local-ai.md) and [Open-Source AI Coding](../../concepts/open-source-ai-coding.md) without forcing anyone onto a single vendor. It is also why the fork could later route the same models through [OpenRouter](../tools/openrouter.md) with in-UI API keys instead of maintaining a bespoke integration for every lab forever.

For Cole, Mistral is one of the open-weight-friendly labs that keep the cost and lock-in arguments for [browser-based AI coding tools](../../concepts/browser-based-ai-coding.md) honest. Its models are a cheap, capable alternative when a frontier model is overkill, which is the same reasoning that puts DeepSeek coder models and [Llama](../tools/llama.md) in that provider list.

## Works with

- [oTToDev (autod Dev)](../tools/ottodev.md) - Community fork of bolt.new that adds support for any LLM; the project that merged the Mistral API integration.
- [bolt.diy](../tools/bolt-diy.md) - The renamed, officially backed continuation of that fork, carrying the same multi-provider model picker.
- [OpenRouter](../tools/openrouter.md) - Unified API gateway to many LLMs, the later route for reaching providers like Mistral without bespoke integrations.

## Related

- [Provider Independence](../../concepts/provider-independence.md) - Architecting so the underlying model can be swapped without a rewrite.
- [Model Selection](../../concepts/model-selection.md) - Choosing the right LLM per task by trading off quality, speed, and cost.
- [Community-Driven Development](../../concepts/community-driven-development.md) - Building open source in public with a community and a public roadmap.
- [Local & Self-Hosted AI](../../concepts/local-ai.md) - Running open-weight models on your own hardware or cloud for privacy and cost control.
- [Open-Source & Local AI Coding](../../concepts/open-source-ai-coding.md) - Community-maintained, self-hostable AI coding tools that dodge API costs and rate limits.
- [Browser-Based AI Coding Tools](../../concepts/browser-based-ai-coding.md) - In-browser coding tools that get you started fast but stall on directed refinement.
- [DeepSeek](./deepseek.md) - Chinese startup whose coder models landed in the same fork changelog as the Mistral integration.
- [Groq](./groq.md) - Fast inference provider reachable through the fork's generic OpenAI-compatible integration.
- [StackBlitz](./stackblitz.md) - Maker of the commercial bolt.new that later partnered with the open-source fork.
- [Llama](../tools/llama.md) - Open-weight model family in the same multi-provider lineup.

## Sources

- [This Bolt.new Fork is EXPLODING - Don't Miss out on What's Happening!](../../sources/this-boltnew-fork-is-exploding-dont-miss-out-on-whats-happening.md) - "[0:05:53] the addition of mistol a lot of people like using mistol so this is a great API integration as well"
