Mistral Vibe
Hacker ApprovedRanked 6 of 18 AI coding agents by recommenders
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.
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.
83 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 57
- criticize it
- 26
- approval share
- 69%
Recommended in 11 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: recommended
- January 2026: recommended
- February 2026: recommended
- March 2026: recommended
- April 2026: recommended
- May 2026: recommended
- June 2026: recommended
- July 2026: recommended
- August 2026: recommended
- September 2026: recommended
- October 2026: recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it carries the badge
- 57 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, met.
- 2.2 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 11 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
The same three rules apply to every product, and the badge can’t be bought. How the badge works
What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Open-source, well-designed CLI tool
“The system prompt and tool prompts for their open source (Apache 2 licensed) Python+Textual+Pydantic CLI tool are fun to read”
Comment from 9 Dec 2025 in “Mistral releases Devstral2 and Mistral Vibe CLI” “an open-source CLI agent (Vibe) that already speaks ACP is basically a reference stack”
Comment from 12 Dec 2025 in “Mistral releases Devstral2 and Mistral Vibe CLI” “This is a really nice open source coding agent implementation.”
Comment from 8 Jan 2026 in “How to Code Claude Code in 200 Lines of Code” - Comment from 9 Dec 2025 in “Mistral releases Devstral2 and Mistral Vibe CLI”
- Comment from 9 Dec 2025 in “Mistral releases Devstral2 and Mistral Vibe CLI”
Cheap for the usage included
“using Mistral Vibe CLI for a fixed 17€/m illimited is an incredible value for money”
Comment from 16 Jun 2026 in “Ask HN: Has anyone replaced Claude/GPT with a local model for daily coding?” “The pricing (for now) gives me a good large quota included in my Pro subscription”
Comment from 4 Sep 2026 in “Mistral Vibe Code: GLM 5.2 is now available” “Mistral Vibe is cheap for what you get - I haven't run into limits yet”
Comment from 19 Feb 2026 in “European Tech Alternatives” - Comment from 30 May 2026 in “Notes from the Mistral AI Now Summit in Paris”
Fast iteration and debugging help
“I do prefer Mistral vibe for everyday usage (significantly faster if not self hosted)”
Comment from 1 Jul 2026 on Hacker News “It's made my debugging workflow much faster, especially for frontend issues.”
Comment from 15 Jan 2026 in “Vibe – Claude Skill to let Claude Code read screen automatically” “the performance was pretty okay, both in regards to development and speed”
Comment from 29 May 2026 in “Notes from the Mistral AI Now Summit in Paris” - Comment from 21 Jun 2026 in “Anthropic to Require ID Verification for Certain Capabilities Starting July 8”
European alternative to US labs
“At least there is one player in Europe which does a full vertical integration around LLM/AI”
Comment from 2 Apr 2026 in “Mistral secures $830M in debt financing to fund AI data center” “I would much rather give money to a European effort”
Comment from 9 Dec 2025 in “Mistral releases Devstral2 and Mistral Vibe CLI”
What people warn about
Each mark is one comment
Data used for training by default
“At my basic subscription tier, Vibe will share data with Mistral.”
Comment from 2 Sep 2026 in “Can I opt out of my input or output data being used for training?” “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”
Comment from 2 Sep 2026 in “Can I opt out of my input or output data being used for training?” “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”
Comment from 2 Sep 2026 in “Can I opt out of my input or output data being used for training?” - Comment from 3 Sep 2026 in “Can I opt out of my input or output data being used for training?”
- Comment from 2 Sep 2026 in “Can I opt out of my input or output data being used for training?”
- Comment from 2 Sep 2026 in “Can I opt out of my input or output data being used for training?”
Name suggests toy vibe-coding
“"Vibe" evokes exactly the opposite, and to me the term has carried a dismissive ring”
Comment from 22 Apr 2026 in “Mistral Vibe” “name implies it's for playing around with "vibe-coding", instead of helping professional developers produce high quality code”
Comment from 9 Dec 2025 in “Mistral releases Devstral2 and Mistral Vibe CLI” “Not sure about the naming, wouldn't something with Mistral naming better to understand what it is?”
Comment from 27 Jan 2026 in “Mistral Launches Vibe 2.0” Weaker than Claude or GPT
“Devstral 2 was obviously not great compared to Claude/GPT but kind of acceptable if you were willing to compromise.”
Comment from 8 Sep 2026 in “Mistral raises €3B” “it was really nice for $15/month but not as effective as Gemini Plus with AntiGravity and gemini-cli”
Comment from 29 Apr 2026 in “Mistral Medium 3.5” “Mistral is of course so far removed in quality that it's apples to oranges.”
Comment from 23 Jan 2026 in “I was banned from Claude for scaffolding a Claude.md file”
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| Mistral VibeThis page | 57 | 26 | 69% | 11 | — | Approved |
What people said
40 of the 108 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“it times out and says requests are rate limited even when we start with just a”
“Their hosted GLM-5.3 has been a game changer in Vibe CLI over the last couple of weeks.”
“The Web version is excellent : tried yesterday on a simple search, results were way more informative than ChatGPT.”
“Devstral 2 was obviously not great compared to Claude/GPT but kind of acceptable if you were willing to compromise.”
“The pricing (for now) gives me a good large quota included in my Pro subscription”
“except that it was on for my entire org so I'll be checking if they didn't store anything first thing tomorrow”
“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”
“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”
“no "Allow the use of your interactions with Vibe to train Mistral’s AI models"”
“At my basic subscription tier, Vibe will share data with Mistral.”
“it is on by default for everyone on the Team plan, the admin can't centrally turn it off anymore”
“its still a long way away but Ive been able to make some tunes on it”
“I build software cause I love it and I want to share them with like minded people”
“you need to do better product marketing to get anybody interested in trying it out”
“I do prefer Mistral vibe for everyday usage (significantly faster if not self hosted)”
“Mistral nails it, and when it doesn't its so fast to iterate.”
“using Mistral Vibe CLI for a fixed 17€/m illimited is an incredible value for money”
“the Pro tier is pretty affordable too to try out for a month”
“the performance was pretty okay, both in regards to development and speed”
“It will probably be enough for plenty of tasks, though there's also a noticeable difference between that and up to 1M.”
“I actually find the ergonomics of it nicer than the others I've used so far.”
“Given what Vibe already did in the previous versions with codestral-v2, that's great news.”
“it was really nice for $15/month but not as effective as Gemini Plus with AntiGravity and gemini-cli”
“"Vibe" evokes exactly the opposite, and to me the term has carried a dismissive ring”
“At least there is one player in Europe which does a full vertical integration around LLM/AI”
“I just reinstalled AGY and Mistral’s Vibe and got on with the work.”
“Mistral Vibe is cheap for what you get - I haven't run into limits yet”
“Mistral lets you use both Vibe and their API through your vibe subscription api key which is incredible”
“lets you use both Vibe and their API through your vibe subscription api key which is incredible”
“Not sure about the naming, wouldn't something with Mistral naming better to understand what it is?”
“Mistral is of course so far removed in quality that it's apples to oranges.”
“It's made my debugging workflow much faster, especially for frontend issues.”
“This is a really nice open source coding agent implementation.”
“an open-source CLI agent (Vibe) that already speaks ACP is basically a reference stack”
“The system prompt and tool prompts for their open source (Apache 2 licensed) Python+Textual+Pydantic CLI tool are fun to read”
“I'm glad it's not another LLM CLI that uses React.”
“I would much rather give money to a European effort”
“Open sourcing the TUI is pretty big news actually.”
“Its a great way if interacting with LLMs, if only they where much faster.”
“name implies it's for playing around with "vibe-coding", instead of helping professional developers produce high quality code”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.