# Mistral Vibe 57 Hacker News commenters recommended Mistral Vibe and 26 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 11 of 13 months. It meets the Hacker Approved badge rule. **Verdict:** A terminal coding agent people recommend for cheap subscription value and an open-source CLI; the most common caveat is weaker models and data-use defaults on Team plans. ## Why people recommend it - Open-source, well-designed CLI tool (5 comments): "The system prompt and tool prompts for their open source (Apache 2 licensed) Python+Textual+Pydantic CLI tool are fun to read" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46210121)) "an open-source CLI agent (Vibe) that already speaks ACP is basically a reference stack" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46242409)) "This is a really nice open source coding agent implementation." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46546673)) - Cheap for the usage included (4 comments): "using Mistral Vibe CLI for a fixed 17€/m illimited is an incredible value for money" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48553274)) "The pricing (for now) gives me a good large quota included in my Pro subscription" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49561044)) "Mistral Vibe is cheap for what you get - I haven't run into limits yet" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47070916)) - Fast iteration and debugging help (4 comments): "I do prefer Mistral vibe for everyday usage (significantly faster if not self hosted)" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48743281)) "It's made my debugging workflow much faster, especially for frontend issues." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46633116)) "the performance was pretty okay, both in regards to development and speed" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48329848)) - European alternative to US labs (2 comments): "At least there is one player in Europe which does a full vertical integration around LLM/AI" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47619346)) "I would much rather give money to a European effort" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46209670)) ## What people warn about - Data used for training by default (6 comments): "At my basic subscription tier, Vibe will share data with Mistral." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49536737)) "What's annoying is that they switched this to on by default on Team plans with no way to turn it off for your whole team/org" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49538514)) "The expectation for an organization tier plan is not that you have to go and ask each user in your org to please turn off" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49538451)) - Name suggests toy vibe-coding (3 comments): ""Vibe" evokes exactly the opposite, and to me the term has carried a dismissive ring" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47862765)) "name implies it's for playing around with "vibe-coding", instead of helping professional developers produce high quality code" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46207765)) "Not sure about the naming, wouldn't something with Mistral naming better to understand what it is?" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46781107)) - Weaker than Claude or GPT (3 comments): "Devstral 2 was obviously not great compared to Claude/GPT but kind of acceptable if you were willing to compromise." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49606979)) "it was really nice for $15/month but not as effective as Gemini Plus with AntiGravity and gemini-cli" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47950300)) "Mistral is of course so far removed in quality that it's apples to oranges." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46727734)) ## Alternatives hackers recommend - [Claude Code](https://hackerapproved.com/p/claude-code.md): 4522 recommend - [OpenAI Codex](https://hackerapproved.com/p/codex.md): 2474 recommend - [OpenCode](https://hackerapproved.com/p/opencode.md): 1060 recommend - [Gemini CLI](https://hackerapproved.com/p/gemini-cli.md): 172 recommend - [Cline](https://hackerapproved.com/p/cline.md): 63 recommend ## Where to get it - [Visit the official site](https://mistral.ai/) ## Cite as Hacker Approved, "Mistral Vibe", https://hackerapproved.com/p/mistral-vibe/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).