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Mistral 7B: price on every cloud

Open weights · 7 billion parameters · 32,768-token context · licence apache-2.0

Per token, by cloud

US dollars per million tokens, each cloud's cheapest region.
CloudInput, per 1M tokensOutput, per 1M tokensCheapest region
AWS$0.15$0.20us-east-1 · 9 regions
Azure——not sold per token
OCI——not sold per token
Core42——not sold per token
Alibaba Cloud——not sold per token
Google Cloud——not sold per token

Run it yourself

It needs 18.1 GB of GPU memory at bf16, the precision it ships in.

CloudCheapest instance that fitsGPUsAn hourA month, around the clock
Google Cloudg2-standard-41 × L4 24 GB$0.7068$516
AWSg6.xlarge1 × L4 24 GB$0.8048$588
AzureStandard_NC36ds_xl_RTXPRO6000BSE_v61 × RTX PRO 6000 24 GB$1.44$1,053
Alibaba Cloudecs.gn7i-c8g1.2xlarge1 × A10 24 GB$1.68$1,224

At the cheapest per-token price, running it on Google Cloud g2-standard-4 pays off above roughly 3.2 billion tokens a month.

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Inside the UAE: no cloud sells it in-country.

List prices collected 5 October 2026, refreshed every three hours. No negotiated rates or taxes.