diff --git a/packages/ai/CHANGELOG.md b/packages/ai/CHANGELOG.md
index adcf2b773..abb9514bc 100644
--- a/packages/ai/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/packages/ai/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@
 - Fixed Radius models disabled by an organization owner still being listed: a fetched or cached Radius catalog now replaces the shipped default catalog instead of being merged into it
 - Fixed OpenAI provider type-checking with cached catalogs that contain no classifier models
 - Fixed Anthropic browser login failing with "localhost refused to connect" when port 53692 is reserved or in use, for example by Hyper-V/WSL port exclusions on Windows: login now falls back to a free loopback port ([#10571](https://github.com/earendil-works/pi/issues/10571))
+- Fixed Mistral responses that end with `finish_reason: "error"` not being retried ([#10487](https://github.com/earendil-works/pi/issues/10487))
 
 ## [1.0.4] - 2026-10-05
 
diff --git a/packages/ai/src/api/mistral-conversations.ts b/packages/ai/src/api/mistral-conversations.ts
index a6a5b2564..de7552ad6 100644
--- a/packages/ai/src/api/mistral-conversations.ts
+++ b/packages/ai/src/api/mistral-conversations.ts
@@ -930,7 +930,8 @@ function mapChatStopReason(reason: string | null): { stopReason: StopReason; err
 		case "tool_calls":
 			return { stopReason: "toolUse" };
 		case "error":
-			return { stopReason: "error", errorMessage: "Provider stopped with: error" };
+			// Mistral reports transient server failures this way; "server error" makes the message retryable.
+			return { stopReason: "error", errorMessage: "Provider stopped with: error (server error)" };
 		default:
 			return { stopReason: "error", errorMessage: `Provider stopped with: ${reason}` };
 	}
diff --git a/packages/ai/test/mistral-raw-stop-reason.test.ts b/packages/ai/test/mistral-raw-stop-reason.test.ts
index a24b33741..ee7881d7d 100644
--- a/packages/ai/test/mistral-raw-stop-reason.test.ts
+++ b/packages/ai/test/mistral-raw-stop-reason.test.ts
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ import { describe, expect, it } from "vitest";
 import { stream as streamMistral } from "../src/api/mistral-conversations.ts";
 import { getModel, normalizeContext } from "../src/compat.ts";
 import type { FetchFunction } from "../src/types.ts";
+import { isRetryableAssistantError } from "../src/utils/retry.ts";
 
 const model = getModel("mistral", "devstral-medium-latest");
 const context = normalizeContext({
@@ -51,7 +52,9 @@ describe("Mistral raw stop reasons", () => {
 
 		expect(message.stopReason).toBe("error");
 		expect(message.rawStopReason).toBe("error");
-		expect(message.errorMessage).toBe("Provider stopped with: error");
+		expect(message.errorMessage).toBe("Provider stopped with: error (server error)");
+		// #10487
+		expect(isRetryableAssistantError(message)).toBe(true);
 	});
 
 	it("treats unknown Mistral finish reasons as provider error stops", async () => {
@@ -63,5 +66,6 @@ describe("Mistral raw stop reasons", () => {
 		expect(message.stopReason).toBe("error");
 		expect(message.rawStopReason).toBe("unmapped_error");
 		expect(message.errorMessage).toBe("Provider stopped with: unmapped_error");
+		expect(isRetryableAssistantError(message)).toBe(false);
 	});
 });