Mistral Vibe

Mistral Vibe is Mistral AI's open-source (Apache 2.0) agentic coding assistant, launched in December 2025. It runs as a terminal CLI, as native VS Code and JetBrains extensions, via the Zed editor through Agent Client Protocol, and as remote agents in the cloud. Powered by Devstral 2 and Mistral Medium 3.5 (provider-reported 77.6% on SWE-Bench Verified), it reads and edits files, executes shell commands, orchestrates subagents for parallel work, and extends through a skills system plus MCP server configuration. Sessions support plan-then-execute sign-off, session-scoped permissions, Git worktrees, and /teleport to move a live session between terminal and cloud without losing history.

The honest picture: Vibe is the newest entrant in a now-standardized category (skills, subagents, permissions, MCP) so it competes on model quality and execution rather than novel interface ideas. Hosted inference and higher usage limits require a Mistral plan — Free, Pro at $14.99/month, Team at $24.99/user/month, with API usage billed separately — and Free/Pro inputs may be used for model training unless you opt out. As a European-built, open-weight alternative to US-hosted agents it has a genuine differentiator, but the ecosystem (community skills, integrations) is still catching up to incumbents.

Install with curl -LsSf https://mistral.ai/vibe/install.sh | bash or uv tool install mistral-vibe. Sign in with a Mistral account, then run vibe in any project directory. IDE extensions install from the VS Code / JetBrains marketplaces.