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Mistral Document AI

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See what an agent can do with Mistral Document AI before you ever sign up. Pick a story: recorded sessions replay real probe-harness transcripts; commands tagged live-capable can re-run against the real endpoint from our edge, right now (▶ run live — the exact same request, live and recorded lines always labeled); sandboxed self-drive sessions are designed and gated (docs/TRY-IT.md).

$curl -s -X POST https://api.mistral.ai/v1/ocr -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d '{}'recorded session — replayed, not live
recorded 2026-09-10 · exit 0 · captured verbatim by our probe harness, secrets redacted · pure-HTTP probe — ▶ run live re-runs it from our edge

Verified integrations

No integration evidence found in our corpus for this product yet — that means none was found, never that it doesn’t integrate.

By theme — the product's score on each story themeBy theme

Agenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productAgenticnessevidence →

How well agents can access and operate the product

22.2/100

Automation depth — how much of the product can run unattendedAutomation depthevidence →

How much of the product can run unattended

24.0/100

Deployment compliance — stories about deployment compliance in this arenaDeployment complianceevidence →

Stories about deployment compliance in this arena

7.2/100

Format coverage — stories about format coverage in this arenaFormat coverageevidence →

Stories about format coverage in this arena

27.0/100

Ocr multilingual — stories about ocr multilingual in this arenaOcr multilingualevidence →

Stories about ocr multilingual in this arena

19.0/100

Openness — open source, data portability, and self-hosting storiesOpennessevidence →

Open source, data portability, and self-hosting stories

18.0/100

Parse accuracy — stories about parse accuracy in this arenaParse accuracyevidence →

Stories about parse accuracy in this arena

35.8/100

Privacy posture — data-handling and privacy storiesPrivacy postureevidence →

Data-handling and privacy stories

4.0/100

Rag chunking — stories about rag chunking in this arenaRag chunkingevidence →

Stories about rag chunking in this arena

50.0/100

Scale async — stories about scale async in this arenaScale asyncevidence →

Stories about scale async in this arena

0.0/100

Sdk dx — stories about sdk dx in this arenaSdk dxevidence →

Stories about sdk dx in this arena

0.0/100

Structured extraction — stories about structured extraction in this arenaStructured extractionevidence →

Stories about structured extraction in this arena

26.7/100

Table extraction — stories about table extraction in this arenaTable extractionevidence →

Stories about table extraction in this arena

30.0/100

Story verdicts — every judged story with its evidenceStory verdicts

What’s free: 0 free · 6 paid · 1 enterprise · 15 not stated in evidence

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Sorted by importance (agentic first) (high → low) · 53/53 stories · click a row’s chevron for the rationale and evidence

Drive the product through a documented public API G

Agent access

ai-native userAgenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productAgenticness3full8/10T

Delegate tasks to a built-in AI assistant inside the product G

Agentic features

ai-native userAgenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productAgenticness3partial4/10C

Connect an agent via an official MCP server G

Agent access

ai-native userAgenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productAgenticness3n/a0/10

Plug MCP servers into this product so it can use their tools G

Agent access

ai-native userAgenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productAgenticness3n/auntestednone yet

Get AI-generated insights and suggestions from my data inside the product G

Agentic features

ai-native userAgenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productAgenticness2full7/10X

Point an agent at llms.txt or agent-oriented docs G

Agent access

ai-native userAgenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productAgenticness2partial6/10T

Run the product headlessly / in CI for automation G

Agent access

ai-native userAgenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productAgenticness2partial6/10X

Operate the product with natural-language commands G

Agentic features

ai-native userAgenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productAgenticness2partial4/10C

Download a machine-readable API spec (OpenAPI or equivalent) G

Api quality

ai-native userAgenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productAgenticness2none0/10

Explore an interactive API reference with runnable examples G

Api quality

ai-native userAgenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productAgenticness2none0/10

Rely on versioned APIs with a documented deprecation policy G

Api quality

ai-native userAgenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productAgenticness2none0/10

Use an official CLI G

Agent access

ai-native userAgenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productAgenticness2none0/10

Build against official SDKs G

Agent access

ai-native userAgenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productAgenticness2noneuntestednone yet

Issue scoped/least-privilege API credentials for an agent G

Agent access

ai-native userAgenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productAgenticness2n/auntestednone yet

Set up automations that run autonomously in the background G

Agentic features

ai-native userAgenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productAgenticness2noneuntestednone yet

Subscribe to events via webhooks G

Agent access

ai-native userAgenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productAgenticness2noneuntestednone yet

Test against a sandbox environment without touching production data G

Api quality

ai-native userAgenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productAgenticness1noneuntestednone yet

I supply a JSON schema and get back validated structured fields extracted from the document C

Schemas

developerStructured extraction — stories about structured extraction in this arenaStructured extraction3partial6/10C

Scanned and photographed documents OCR accurately — skewed pages, stamps, low quality scans included C

Ocr

developerOcr multilingual — stories about ocr multilingual in this arenaOcr multilingual3disputed6/10D

The API parses complex real-world PDFs — multi-column layouts, headers, footers, footnotes — into clean, correctly ordered content C

Layout

developerParse accuracy — stories about parse accuracy in this arenaParse accuracy3disputed6/10D

Complex tables — merged cells, nested headers, multi-page spans — come out as faithful HTML/markdown structure C

Tables

data engineerTable extraction — stories about table extraction in this arenaTable extraction3partialpaid5/10X

Output comes pre-chunked for RAG — semantic boundaries, metadata, embedding-ready segments — not a wall of text C

Chunking

ai-native userRag chunking — stories about rag chunking in this arenaRag chunking3partialpaid5/10C

Export all of my data in open formats and leave G

ai-native userOpenness — open source, data portability, and self-hosting storiesOpenness3partial3/10C

Self-host the core product G

ai-native userOpenness — open source, data portability, and self-hosting storiesOpenness3partial3/10C

Long parses run as async jobs with status polling and completion webhooks, so my pipeline never blocks C

Async

developerScale async — stories about scale async in this arenaScale async3none0/10

Prevent my data from being used to train AI models G

ai-native userPrivacy posture — data-handling and privacy storiesPrivacy posture3none0/10

Uploaded documents get zero-retention handling with SOC 2 and HIPAA options, so I can process contracts and medical records C

Compliance

data engineerDeployment compliance — stories about deployment compliance in this arenaDeployment compliance3none0/10

Define rules that trigger actions automatically on events G

ai-native userAutomation depth — how much of the product can run unattendedAutomation depth3n/auntestednone yet

Official typed SDKs for Python and TypeScript cover the full API — parse, extract, jobs — with sensible defaults C

Sdks

developerSdk dx — stories about sdk dx in this arenaSdk dx3noneuntestednone yet

I get clean markdown/JSON designed for LLM consumption, with noise like repeated headers and page furniture stripped C

Output

ai-native userRag chunking — stories about rag chunking in this arenaRag chunking2fullpaid8/10X

Parsed output preserves document hierarchy — headings, sections, reading order — so downstream LLMs see structure, not soup C

Layout

ml engineerParse accuracy — stories about parse accuracy in this arenaParse accuracy2fullpaid8/10X

Every extracted field carries provenance — page number, bounding box, source snippet — so agents can cite and humans can verify C

Grounding

ai-native userStructured extraction — stories about structured extraction in this arenaStructured extraction2partialpaid7/10X

One API handles my whole document mix — PDF, DOCX, PPTX, XLSX, HTML, images, email — without per-format plumbing C

Formats

developerFormat coverage — stories about format coverage in this arenaFormat coverage2partialpaid7/10X

Figures and charts are extracted or described (VLM summaries, image crops) with positions traceable back to the source page C

Figures

ml engineerParse accuracy — stories about parse accuracy in this arenaParse accuracy2partial6/10X

I turn extracted tables into typed rows/JSON I can load into a database without manual cleanup C

Tables

data engineerTable extraction — stories about table extraction in this arenaTable extraction2partial5/10X

Extractions carry calibrated confidence scores with a human-in-the-loop review path for low-confidence fields C

Review

data engineerStructured extraction — stories about structured extraction in this arenaStructured extraction2partial4/10X

Non-English documents — including CJK and right-to-left scripts — parse with the same fidelity as English C

Languages

developerOcr multilingual — stories about ocr multilingual in this arenaOcr multilingual2disputed4/10D

Perform bulk operations across many items at once G

ai-native userAutomation depth — how much of the product can run unattendedAutomation depth2partial4/10X

Thousand-page documents and multi-gigabyte files process reliably without timeouts or silent truncation C

Scale limits

data engineerFormat coverage — stories about format coverage in this arenaFormat coverage2disputed4/10D

Choose where my data is stored (region/residency) G

ai-native userPrivacy posture — data-handling and privacy storiesPrivacy posture2partial3/10C

Run the extraction stack in my own VPC or fully self-hosted when documents can't leave my infrastructure C

Deployment

data engineerDeployment compliance — stories about deployment compliance in this arenaDeployment compliance2partialenterprise3/10C

A fast synchronous mode returns results in seconds for interactive apps, with latency documented per mode C

Latency

developerScale async — stories about scale async in this arenaScale async2none0/10

Control data retention and deletion G

ai-native userPrivacy posture — data-handling and privacy storiesPrivacy posture2none0/10

I push high-volume batches — millions of pages — with documented rate limits and predictable throughput G

Scale

data engineerScale async — stories about scale async in this arenaScale async2none0/10

Opt out of telemetry and usage tracking G

ai-native userPrivacy posture — data-handling and privacy storiesPrivacy posture2none0/10

Do everything through the API that I can do in the UI G

ai-native userOpenness — open source, data portability, and self-hosting storiesOpenness2n/auntestednone yet

Multi-document packets are classified and split automatically — one upload, per-document results C

Splitting

data engineerStructured extraction — stories about structured extraction in this arenaStructured extraction2noneuntestednone yet

Read the product's source under an open license G

ai-native userOpenness — open source, data portability, and self-hosting storiesOpenness2n/auntestednone yet

Schedule recurring jobs or workflows G

ai-native userAutomation depth — how much of the product can run unattendedAutomation depth2n/auntestednone yet

Handwritten fields and annotations are recognized and extracted, flagged with confidence when uncertain C

Ocr

developerOcr multilingual — stories about ocr multilingual in this arenaOcr multilingual1partial6/10X

I drag a document into a web playground and see parse/extract results before writing any code C

Playground

developerSdk dx — stories about sdk dx in this arenaSdk dx1noneuntestednone yet

The vendor publishes reproducible accuracy benchmarks and I can run my own evals before committing C

Evals

ml engineerParse accuracy — stories about parse accuracy in this arenaParse accuracy1noneuntestednone yet

Version, review, and roll back my automations G

ai-native userAutomation depth — how much of the product can run unattendedAutomation depth1n/auntestednone yet

Opportunities — the stories that would move this product's scores, from its own judged verdictsOpportunitiestop 8 of 37 stories with headroom

What would move Mistral Document AI’s scores — derived from its own judged verdicts, biggest headroom first. Each line quotes what the judge found missing; shipping it (or evidencing it publicly) is the fix.

  1. Scale async — stories about scale async in this arenaLong parses run as async jobs with status polling and completion webhooks, so my pipeline never blocks

    nonemoves PA Scoreimpact 30

    No evidence anywhere in the docs pack of async job submission, status polling endpoints, or completion webhooks for Document AI OCR/annotation calls; the API appears to be synchronous (request/response), and one community report notes 900-page documents caused a timeout rather than being handled as a background job.

  2. Deployment compliance — stories about deployment compliance in this arenaUploaded documents get zero-retention handling with SOC 2 and HIPAA options, so I can process contracts and medical records

    nonemoves PA Scoreimpact 30

    Evidence only shows generic marketing language about 'compliance-first organizations' and a 'Trust Center' link, with no concrete mention of zero-retention data handling, SOC 2 certification, or HIPAA compliance options for the Document AI product specifically.

  3. Privacy posture — data-handling and privacy storiesPrevent my data from being used to train AI models

    nonemoves PA Scoreimpact 30

    Missing: explicit training-data opt-out policy, retention/data-use terms for API calls, independent confirmation of no-training defaults.

  4. Sdk dx — stories about sdk dx in this arenaOfficial typed SDKs for Python and TypeScript cover the full API — parse, extract, jobs — with sensible defaults

    nonemoves PA Scoreimpact 30

    Missing: any mention of SDK packages, typed client libraries, installation/import examples, or SDK-specific defaults.

  5. Agenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productSet up automations that run autonomously in the background

    nonemoves Built-in AIimpact 30

    The evidence pack covers only synchronous OCR/document-extraction capabilities (text extraction, annotations, Q&A) with no mention of scheduling, triggers, webhooks, or any mechanism for autonomous background automation runs.

  6. Agenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productUse an official CLI

    nonemoves agent-readyimpact 30

    Evidence shows only official Python/TypeScript SDKs and a REST API for Document AI; there is no mention of an official CLI tool anywhere in the docs or community evidence.

  7. Agenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productBuild against official SDKs

    nonemoves agent-readyimpact 30

    The evidence pack covers Document AI's OCR/annotation/QnA features and API endpoint details but contains no mention of official SDKs (Python, JS/TS, etc.) for building against Document AI — this is an applicable axis for an API product but no supporting evidence exists in the pack.

  8. Agenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productSubscribe to events via webhooks

    nonemoves agent-readyimpact 30

    No evidence anywhere in the pack of webhook support or event subscription for Document AI; documentation covers OCR, annotations, and Q&A only, with no mention of webhooks or event-driven notifications.

Showing the top 8 of 37 — every none/partial verdict in the story verdicts table is headroom.

Think a verdict is wrong? Every verdicts-table row has a Flag link — see the methodology.

Coverage map — which docs area, API section, or community source covers which judged storiesCoverage map6 surfaces · 26 covered stories

Where the cited evidence behind each covered verdict came from — the same citations the verdicts table shows, no extra judging.

Studio docs23 stories

Hacker News17 stories

Probe proofs — replayable recordings from the probe harnessProbe proofs

Replayable recordings from our probe harness — see the Prove-It protocol to submit one.

$curl -s -X POST https://api.mistral.ai/v1/ocr -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d '{}'reproduced
$ curl -s -X POST https://api.mistral.ai/v1/ocr -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d '{}'
{"detail":"Invalid API [redacted]"}
$curl -s https://docs.mistral.ai/llms.txt | head -8reproduced
$ curl -s https://docs.mistral.ai/llms.txt | head -8
# MistralAI

## Docs

[Agents & Conversations](https://docs.mistral.ai/docs/agents/agents_and_conversations.md): Agents & Conversations API: Create, manage agents with tools, and handle interactive conversations with persistent history
[Agents Function Calling](https://docs.mistral.ai/docs/agents/agents_function_calling.md): Agents use tools and function calling to perform tasks, with built-in and customizable options
[Agents Introduction](https://docs.mistral.ai/docs/agents/agents_introduction.md): AI agents autonomously execute tasks using LLMs, with tools, state persistence, and multi-agent collaboration via the Agents API
[Code Interpreter](https://docs.mistral.ai/docs/agents/connectors/code_interpreter.md): Code Interpreter enables safe, on-demand code execution for data analysis, graphing, and more in isolated containers

Claims vs evidence — vendor claims reconciled against independent verdictsClaims vs evidence

7 of 12 testable claims verified · 3 contradictedintegrity 8/100

17 distinct capability claims found in Mistral Document AI’s own claimed-docs/GitHub materials, reconciled against our judge’s independent verdicts.

7

Verified

2

Unverified

3

Contradicted

13

Undersold

Verified (7)
Unverified (2)
Contradicted (4)
Undersold (13)
Claims outside our story set (6)

Real capability claims found in Mistral Document AI’s own materials, but no story in this arena’s taxonomy covers them yet — that’s feedback on the taxonomy, not a mark against the product.

  • Can extract vendor details and amounts from invoices for accounting automation

    source ↗
  • Can capture merchant names and transaction amounts from receipts for expense management

    source ↗
  • Can extract key clauses and terms from contracts for review and management

    source ↗
  • Document QnA combines OCR with an LLM to enable natural-language interaction with document content

    source ↗
  • Supports multi-document queries and comparisons

    source ↗
  • PDFs can be provided via public URL, base64 encoding, or direct file upload

    source ↗
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Business model

usage-basedenterprise-custom

Usage-based: OCR 4.1 at $4 per 1,000 pages and Document AI annotations at $5 per 1,000 pages; document-library OCR/indexing priced separately; enterprise deployments custom.

pricing ↗

Score trend

How this product’s scores have moved as evidence and verdicts are re-derived — a point per change, not per day.

PA Score21 (Sep 10 '26)20 (Sep 16 '26)
Agent-ready33 (Sep 10 '26)30 (Sep 16 '26)

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