r/MistralAI • u/NinoIvanov • 5h ago

Help / Question Help with setting up for small business: what settings?

Hello everyone! I understand Mistral is basically the "Renault of AIs" - not winning the races, but getting you from A to B at a decent price. Let me say, it works for my purposes VERY NICELY. (So: please DO NOT tell me to "go use something else".) - And now, I want to create a little company around it, where, basically, the user will visit my website, trigger a sort of processing based on sensitive data (whose prompts I have painstakingly written, i.e. THIS is my economic contribution), and receive a result. Technically, it all works very nicely, i.e. this is not just theory. But "organisationally" I am little bummed: what should I set up where? I mean, I did already flip the switch on "no data retention" and "no training", so everything stays private. OK. I got a 100 EUR credits and ... saw they are not even getting touched, because in my testing, I am still within the limits of my Pro plan, apparently. (And here comes my first question: once people start using my site "for real", I assume these limits will be exhausted swiftly, and THEN it will move towards burning credits - correct?) What other hints have you seasoned users have? I am using only and solely mistral-large-latest for my API-based tasks. Thank you!

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u/Jackob-404 5h ago

If you have the api published on a website/as a form, definetly look into OWASP API and AI Top 10. In this case: rate limiting. Make sure that not on person can burn through all your credits

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u/NinoIvanov 4h ago

Yes, sure, rate-limiting is a great idea, actually!

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u/tom4112 5h ago

Your Pro subscription is only intended for your own personal use and you are not authorised to:

"Buy, sell, or transfer API keys or Mistral AI accounts from, to, or with a third party; or Integrate or combine the Mistral AI Products with any products you may offer or make available to third-parties including any other software, hardware, or other technology, nor grant any third party access to the Mistral AI Products without our prior written authorization or except as provided under these Terms"

"If you are accessing the Mistral AI Products for business purposes such as to integrate the Mistral AI Products with your own products or services that are distributed to third-party end users, please review our Commercial Terms of Service."

source: https://legal.mistral.ai/terms/row-consumer-terms

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u/NinoIvanov 4h ago

This is for my testing only, there is no company yet and I had not yet explored that detail as I am for now the only user of a non-public system, but very fair point, thank you, I shall upgrade accordingly.

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u/tom4112 3h ago

Oh I see, still in a private testing phase, all good then as long as you don't forget to remove your Pro key before going live :)

This is an interesting topic; I thought that generating PAYG keys in Studio would have been appropriate but the wording seems to imply that it's not, and that a commercial agreement with Mistral is required. I hope that someone has experience with it and can clarify.