Mistral AI Chat Completions API
Endpoints for generating chat completions using Mistral language models in a conversational format.
Endpoints for generating chat completions using Mistral language models in a conversational format.
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openapi: 3.2.0
info:
title: Mistral AI Chat Completions API
description: The Mistral AI Chat Completions API enables developers to interact with Mistral's language models in a conversational manner. It supports multi-turn conversations, function calling, JSON mode for structured outputs, and vision capabilities. The API provides access to a range of models including Mistral Large, Mistral Small, and Codestral, each optimized for different use cases from general reasoning to code generation.
version: 1.0.0
contact:
name: Mistral AI Support
url: https://docs.mistral.ai
termsOfService: https://mistral.ai/terms
servers:
- url: https://api.mistral.ai/v1
description: Mistral AI Production Server
security:
- bearerAuth: []
tags:
- name: Chat Completions
description: Endpoints for generating chat completions using Mistral language models in a conversational format.
paths:
/chat/completions:
post:
operationId: createChatCompletion
summary: Create chat completion
description: Creates a model response for the given chat conversation. The endpoint accepts a list of messages comprising a conversation and returns a model-generated message as a response. Supports multi-turn conversations, function calling, JSON mode, and streaming.
tags:
- Chat Completions
requestBody:
required: true
content:
application/json:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/ChatCompletionRequest'
responses:
'200':
description: Successful chat completion response
content:
application/json:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/ChatCompletionResponse'
'400':
description: Bad request due to invalid parameters
content:
application/json:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
'401':
description: Unauthorized due to missing or invalid API key
content:
application/json:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
'429':
description: Rate limit exceeded
content:
application/json:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
components:
schemas:
Error:
type: object
properties:
message:
type: string
description: A human-readable error message.
type:
type: string
description: The type of error.
code:
type: integer
description: The HTTP status code.
ChatCompletionResponse:
type: object
properties:
id:
type: string
description: A unique identifier for the chat completion.
object:
type: string
description: The object type, always chat.completion.
enum:
- chat.completion
created:
type: integer
description: The Unix timestamp in seconds of when the completion was created.
model:
type: string
description: The model used for the chat completion.
choices:
type: array
description: A list of chat completion choices.
items:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/ChatCompletionChoice'
usage:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/Usage'
Usage:
type: object
properties:
prompt_tokens:
type: integer
description: Number of tokens in the prompt.
completion_tokens:
type: integer
description: Number of tokens in the generated completion.
total_tokens:
type: integer
description: Total number of tokens used in the request.
Tool:
type: object
required:
- type
- function
properties:
type:
type: string
enum:
- function
description: The type of the tool. Currently only function is supported.
function:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/FunctionDefinition'
ToolCall:
type: object
properties:
id:
type: string
description: The ID of the tool call.
type:
type: string
enum:
- function
description: The type of the tool call.
function:
type: object
properties:
name:
type: string
description: The name of the function to call.
arguments:
type: string
description: The arguments to call the function with, as a JSON string.
FunctionDefinition:
type: object
required:
- name
properties:
name:
type: string
description: The name of the function to be called.
description:
type: string
description: A description of what the function does.
parameters:
type: object
description: The parameters the function accepts, described as a JSON Schema object.
ChatMessage:
type: object
required:
- role
- content
properties:
role:
type: string
description: The role of the message author.
enum:
- system
- user
- assistant
- tool
content:
oneOf:
- type: string
- type: array
items:
type: object
description: The content of the message. Can be a string or an array of content parts for multimodal inputs.
tool_calls:
type: array
description: Tool calls generated by the model.
items:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/ToolCall'
tool_call_id:
type: string
description: The ID of the tool call this message is responding to, required for tool role messages.
ChatCompletionChoice:
type: object
properties:
index:
type: integer
description: The index of the choice in the list of choices.
message:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/ChatMessage'
finish_reason:
type: string
description: The reason the model stopped generating tokens.
enum:
- stop
- length
- tool_calls
- model_length
ChatCompletionRequest:
type: object
required:
- model
- messages
properties:
model:
type: string
description: ID of the model to use. You can use the Models API to see all available models.
example: mistral-large-latest
messages:
type: array
description: A list of messages comprising the conversation so far. Each message has a role and content.
items:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/ChatMessage'
temperature:
type: number
description: Sampling temperature between 0.0 and 1.5. Higher values like 0.7 produce more random output, while lower values like 0.2 produce more focused and deterministic output.
minimum: 0.0
maximum: 1.5
default: 0.7
top_p:
type: number
description: Nucleus sampling parameter. The model considers tokens with top_p probability mass. A value of 0.1 means only the top 10% of tokens are considered.
minimum: 0.0
maximum: 1.0
default: 1.0
max_tokens:
type: integer
description: The maximum number of tokens to generate in the chat completion. The total token count of the prompt plus max_tokens cannot exceed the model's context length.
minimum: 1
stream:
type: boolean
description: 'Whether to stream back partial progress as server-sent events. If true, tokens are sent as data-only events as they become available, terminated by a data: [DONE] message.'
default: false
stop:
oneOf:
- type: string
- type: array
items:
type: string
description: Stop generation if this token is detected, or if one of these tokens is detected when providing an array.
random_seed:
type: integer
description: The seed to use for random sampling. If set, different calls will generate deterministic results.
response_format:
type: object
description: An object specifying the format that the model must output. Setting to json_object enables JSON mode.
properties:
type:
type: string
enum:
- text
- json_object
description: The format type. Use json_object to enable JSON mode.
tools:
type: array
description: A list of tools the model may call. Currently only functions are supported as a tool.
items:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/Tool'
tool_choice:
type: string
description: Controls which tool is called by the model. Can be auto, none, any, or required.
enum:
- auto
- none
- any
- required
presence_penalty:
type: number
description: Penalizes repetition of words or phrases. A higher value encourages the model to use a wider variety of words and phrases.
minimum: -2.0
maximum: 2.0
default: 0.0
frequency_penalty:
type: number
description: Penalizes repetition based on frequency in the generated text. A higher value discourages repeating frequently used words.
minimum: -2.0
maximum: 2.0
default: 0.0
safe_prompt:
type: boolean
description: Whether to inject a safety prompt before all conversations.
default: false
securitySchemes:
bearerAuth:
type: http
scheme: bearer
bearerFormat: API Key
externalDocs:
description: Mistral AI Chat Completions Documentation
url: https://docs.mistral.ai/api/endpoint/chat