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Mistral AI Research License
Use, modify and distribute the model and derivatives for research purposes only: no commercial use and no production deployment without a separate commercial license from Mistral AI.
Summary — verify against the official license text. This reading has not yet been checked line by line against the official text; rely on that text, not this page.
SPDX LicenseRef-Mistral-Research Version MRL-0.1 Official text
Uses at a glance
| commercial use | Prohibited |
|---|---|
| production deployment | Prohibited |
| modification / derivatives | Permitted |
| redistribution | Permitted |
| sublicensing | Not documented |
| AI model training | Needs human review |
| inference-time use (RAG, prompts, generation) | Permitted |
Why some uses need review
AI model training. Training or fine-tuning for research is allowed and the result is a derivative under the same research-only terms. Any commercial use of the result needs a Mistral commercial license.
Duties
- license notice
- give attribution / keep the notice
- research only
Notes
- Distributions must include a copy of the license and keep attribution notices.
- Many Mistral models are instead released under Apache-2.0; check the model card for which license applies.
Resources under this license
No resource in the registry is published under this license yet.
For agents
curl -s https://www.rightshold.com/v1/licenses/check -H 'content-type: application/json' \
-d '{"license":"LicenseRef-Mistral-Research","intended_use":{"commercial_use":true,"deployment":true}}'Reading version 2026-10-09 by the Rightshold rights desk; reference hash aba3f5b68ffaf45eb5e8851b9bf42fcc1be9749df50c9fe9c8ae01cfa9db0ec4 identifies this license version: it is computed over the SPDX id, the version and the official URL, not over the license text. The license text governs; this is not legal advice.