Mistral AI
Mistral AI provides a range of open-weight and proprietary models for text and vision, plus audio transcription via Voxtral, and memory embeddings. OpenClaw supports all three use cases with a singleMISTRAL_API_KEY.
Requirements
- A Mistral API key from console.mistral.ai
Quickstart
Configuration
Environment variable
MISTRAL_API_KEY automatically and enables the mistral provider.
Config snippet (LLM provider)
Provider settings
Available models
Use model IDs as
mistral/<model-id> (example: mistral/mistral-large-latest).
Audio transcription with Voxtral
Mistral’s Voxtral model handles audio transcription. Configure it undertools.media:
/v1/audio/transcriptions.
Memory embeddings
You can use Mistral for memory search embeddings:mistral-embed. Requests go to /v1/embeddings.
Troubleshooting
401 Unauthorized- Verify your API key is copied in full.
- Re-run onboarding:
openclaw onboard --auth-choice mistral-api-key.
- Confirm the model ID matches exactly (case-sensitive).
- Check that your Mistral plan includes the requested model.
openclaw models auth add-key --provider mistral.