Your first Mistral session

At the end of this page you have installed pi-mistral-native, configured an API key, selected the EU region, and sent your first chat message.

Prerequisites

Install the package:
```
pi install npm:pi-mistral-native
```
The provider registers — the model catalog refreshes from Mistral’s live model list.
Log in:
```
/login mistral-native
```
Paste your API key at the prompt (no echo), then pick the region — choose EU to keep inference inside the EU.
Check the connection:
```
/mistral test
```
The probe confirms the regional endpoint answers with a model list.
Start a chat — pick a mistral-native/… model and say hello. Reasoning models stream their thinking next to the answer.

Where to go next: