Mistral Vibe
No written verdict yet. Here is what commenters said.
Why people recommend it
“They are cheaper (by almost one order of magnitude compared to Claude) and still do the job pretty well.”
“Then you can install their coding harness, I personally used the Python + uv option”
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“For a working mode where you watch it closely (same way I use Claude Code), it is fine.”
“Mistral’s Vibe CLI[1] is open source.”
“This is a really nice open source coding agent implementation.”
Caveats and dissent
“one of the researchers here. Happy to answer questions about how we”
“And I have to ask every user in my org to go and turn it off.”
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“I wasn't particularly impressed with Gemini or Mistral Vibe either when I tried them on the free tiers”
Often compared with
Who recommends it in their own words
Threads where it came up
- Mistral releases Devstral2 and Mistral Vibe CLI 8 mentions
- Can I opt out of my input or output data being used for training? 4 mentions
- Leanstral 1.5 2 mentions
- Notes from the Mistral AI Now Summit in Paris 2 mentions
- France's Mistral Built a $14B AI Empire by Not Being American 2 mentions
- What's Missing in the 'Agentic' Story 2 mentions
Also written as Mistral Vibe CLI, mistral-vibe. Data: mistral-vibe.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
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“https://github.com/mistralai/mistral-vibe”
“The Vibe CLI harness has been improving for a while, but is still a little sluggish”
“one of the researchers here. Happy to answer questions about how we”
“And I have to ask every user in my org to go and turn it off.”
“Allow the use of your interactions with Vibe to train Mistral’s AI models”
“I have a hard time noticing differences with Claude (in Kiro) and Mistral Vibe”
“allows you to disable training for both Vibe and Console/API”
“They are cheaper (by almost one order of magnitude compared to Claude) and still do the job pretty well.”
“the one time I tried their `vibe` tool months ago it was a bit rough”
“I wasn't particularly impressed with Gemini or Mistral Vibe either when I tried them on the free tiers”
“Then you can install their coding harness, I personally used the Python + uv option”
“eventually, I am certain they will catch up and Vibe becomes tolerable soon”
“I use Mistral Vibe CLI and I’ve written and implemented a couple of new skills”
I also did some SVG tests, it's really bad. https://chat.mistral.ai/chat/897fbe7d-b1ae-4109-9b29-f3ccc4f8896d
“Can I use Mistral Vibe without”
“For a working mode where you watch it closely (same way I use Claude Code), it is fine.”
“I would avoid Mistral Vibe”
“Mistral’s Vibe CLI[1] is open source.”
“well above Codex, Gemini CLI or Mistral Vibe in my experience”
“along with the vibe cli”
“Having tried the Mistral Vibe harness that was supposedly designed for Devstral, that thing is abysmal.”
“All the other tools inject upto around 7-10k tokens on the initial prompt”
“others Mistral Vibe or Toad”
“This is a really nice open source coding agent implementation.”
“https://github.com/mistralai/mistral-vibe”
“I'd be shocked if Vibe could out-perform Claude Code”
>"Open Source" is nebulous No it isn't it is well defined. The only people who find it "nebulous" are people who want the benefits without upholding the obligations. https://opensource.org/definition-annotated
“This is great! I just made an AUR package for it”
“The system prompt and tool prompts for their open source (Apache 2 licensed) Python+Textual+Pydantic CLI tool are fun to read”
“Going to start hacking on this ASAP”
“Check this out: https://github.com/mistralai/mistral-vibe”
“Can Vibe CLI help me vibe code PRs”
“unlike similar agents from Anthropic/Google (Typescript/Bun) and OpenAI (Rust)”