Mistral OCR 4 understands documents in 170 languages, wins 72% preference against competitors, costs $4 per 1000 pages - and can run on your own server.
- Mistral OCR 4: document understanding in 170 languages, with positions, classification and confidence scores (June 23).
- 72% average preference against competitors; $4 per 1000 pages ($2 in Batch).
- What matters for regulated industries: it runs self-hosted, in a single container.
One container. Your own server. That's what makes Mistral OCR 4 different from most document models - it extracts text with positions (bounding boxes), block classification and confidence scores, but it can run self-hosted, with nothing going outside.
The quiet hero here is 'self-hosted'. OCR is the front door to RAG and agents, meaning to almost everything else. If your documents are sensitive - contracts, health, financial - the last thing you want is to send them outside.
A container of your own plus 170 languages means serious OCR-driven document AI now works for the Bulgarian context too, without the data leaving your network. For a regulated field - bank, hospital, law office - that removes the biggest obstacle to running it at all.