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Cerebras Inference vs Mistral API: which is more reliable? (2026)
Cerebras Inference is more reliable than Mistral API, scoring 89.3 vs 72.0 out of 100. Over the last 90 days Cerebras Inference reported 2 incidents and Mistral API reported 16, with effective uptime of 99.88% and 99.63% respectively. Mistral API resolves incidents faster on average (1h 9m).
Data updated Nov 1, 2026 · How we score
VS
| Metric | Cerebras Inference | Mistral API |
|---|---|---|
| Reliability score | 89.3 | 72.0 |
| Rank (LLM API providers) | #4 | #7 |
| Uptime (90 days) | 99.88% | 99.63% |
| Incidents (90 days) | 2 | 16 |
| Partial / major outages | 1 | 5 |
| Avg time to resolve | 2h 29m | 1h 9m |
| Outages we detected | 0 | 0 |
| Transparency score | 100/100 | 100/100 |
Where Cerebras Inference and Mistral API differ
- Mistral API reported 8× as many incidents as Cerebras Inference over the last 90 days (16 vs 2).
- Mistral API had 5 partial or major outages, compared with 1 for Cerebras Inference.
- Mistral API fixes problems faster: 1h 9m on average, against 2h 29m for Cerebras Inference (2.2× quicker).
- Cerebras Inference's longest outage on record lasted 9h 8m (Feb 4, 2026); Mistral API's lasted 3h 46m (Sep 10, 2026).
90-day uptime
Cerebras Inference
Mistral API
- No incidents
- Degraded
- Partial outage
- Major outage
- No data
Recent Cerebras Inference incidents
- Partial outageSep 25, 2026 · resolved in 4h 58m
Partial Service Disruptionofficial update ↗
Affected: GPT-OSS-120B, Qwen-3.8-27b
- Degraded performanceAug 27, 2026 · resolved in <1m
Affected: GPT-OSS-120B
Recent Mistral API incidents
- Degraded performanceOct 23, 2026 · resolved in 2h 50m
- Degraded performanceOct 13, 2026 · resolved in 27m
- Partial outageOct 12, 2026 · resolved in 35m
- Major outageSep 29, 2026 · resolved in 2h 46m
Elevated error rate on some of our servicesofficial update ↗
- Degraded performanceSep 29, 2026 · resolved in 29m
- Partial outageSep 22, 2026 · resolved in 38m
Other LLM API providers to consider
- Perplexity API · #1 · 99.94% uptime
- Cohere · #2 · 99.94% uptime
- Groq · #3 · 99.94% uptime
- xAI API · #5 · 99.77% uptime