Mistral launches OCR 4 with structured output, self-hosted deployment, and Microsoft Foundry availability

What happened

France's Mistral AI launched OCR 4, a document model targeted at regulated industries (finance, legal, healthcare) that need to keep deployments on-prem.

Context and impact

Mistral is attacking the gap left by Anthropic and OpenAI's cloud-only posture. The self-hosted option and day-one Microsoft Foundry availability are clear enterprise signals. The launch also fits the broader European sovereign AI push (Apertus, the EUROPA consortium).

Details

• 170 languages with structure awareness — headings, tables, signatures
• Bounding boxes + block classification + confidence scores in JSON
• Pricing: $4 per 1,000 pages
• Available via Mistral API, Amazon SageMaker, Microsoft Foundry (day one)
• Self-hosted option for regulated customers