- Rust CLI: support for configuring Vibe Code remote projects
- Clean up managed worktrees after archiving local sessions
- Archive local sessions so they can be hidden from active session lists
- Vibe Desktop now shows unseen indicators for local Code sessions that need attention or finish a turn
- Rust CLI: the live todo plan pins above the input, and Cmd+\ opens the full plan in a right sidebar.
- MCP servers declared by a plugin now start, so the tools they carry are callable in the session
Mistral Vibe by Mistral AI
Pulse Score
34 / 100
Rank #88 of 157
Downloads, last 7 days
488K
down 30.9% vs previous week
Downloads, last 30 days
4.1M
down 60.1% vs previous 30 days
VS Code installs
40.8K
4.6 / 5 from 21 ratings
GitHub stars
5,050
about +5 a day
Latest release
2.25.8
13d ago · 7 in 30 days
Price
Free + $14.99/mo
checked Oct 5, 2026
Overview
Mistral's coding agent, used as the `vibe` CLI, a VS Code extension (with a JetBrains plugin and web version) and powered by Devstral models. Since May 2026 Mistral brands its whole assistant, formerly Le Chat, as Vibe.
Mistral Vibe was downloaded 488K times from PyPI in the week ending Oct 4, 2026, down 30.9% on the week before and down 60.1% over the last 30 days compared with the 30 before. Its VS Code extension has 40.8K installs and average 4.6 out of 5 across 21 marketplace ratings. The GitHub repository has 5,050 stars, 154 of them added in the last 30 days. The latest stable release is 2.25.8, published Sep 23, 2026; there were 7 stable releases in the past 30 days. It was mentioned in 6 Hacker News posts and comments over the last 30 days.
Recent developments
- 2026-05: Le Chat rebranded as Mistral Vibe, adding 'Vibe for code' across CLI, IDE and web (per Wikipedia)
Mistral Vibe usage and attention over time
Download the raw daily series: mistral-vibe.csv
Install Mistral Vibe
| PyPI | pip install mistral-vibe |
|---|---|
| Homebrew | brew install mistral-vibe |
| VS Code | code --install-extension mistralai.mistral-vibe-code |
These commands use the packages tracked on this page. The vendor may recommend a different installer; see the official documentation.
Key facts
| Maker | Mistral AI |
|---|---|
| Type | Terminal agent + VS Code extension |
| First released | December 2025 |
| License | Apache-2.0 |
| Interfaces | CLI, IDE extension, Web |
| Platforms | macOS, Linux, Windows |
| Models | Mistral Devstral models via a Mistral account or API key; other compatible providers via a custom key |
| Local models | Any OpenAI-compatible local server (vLLM, llama.cpp, LM Studio, Ollama) (docs) |
| Bring your own API key | Yes |
| Main language | Python |
| Open issues and PRs | 363 |
| Open VSX downloads | 29,032 (includes updates) |
| Homebrew installs | 119 in 30 days · 12,719 in a year |
Pricing
Free plan includes limited coding sessions and $10/month API credits; Pro is $14.99/month (all-day coding in the CLI, IDE or web); Team is $24.99/user/month; Enterprise is custom. The CLI can also run on a Mistral API key with pay-as-you-go usage.
Source: official pricing page, checked Oct 5, 2026. Prices change often; confirm before you buy.
Pulse Score breakdown
Adoption60
Community29
Attention3
Momentum0
Each component is scored 0 to 100 from public signals; a dash means no data for it. Methodology.
What changed: recent Mistral Vibe releases
22 stable releases in the last 90 days · Full changelog
- Allow /teleport with Vibe and workspace API keys, including free accounts, without an internal feature gate.
- Explain which API keys to use when teleport rejects a Codestral key.
- Warn when managed configuration contains removed Vibe Code settings.
- On Windows, opening a session that is already open in another process reports 'Session is already open' instead of a raw permission error.
- On Windows, idle-session cleanup no longer mistakes a session held by another process for an idle one.
- Automatic project context no longer runs repository-configured Git clean or process filters.
- Subagent conversation history is readable through the owning parent session
- Configurable live subagent status and read-only transcript switching from the interactive prompt
- experimental-harness sessions can track todos, shown as a pinned line under the input and in full on /todo, and keep a per-session scratchpad whose notes are re-stated to the agent after the…
- Turn an installed skill on or off from the /skills browser without removing it.
- Skill authors can mark skills as explicit-only, keeping slash invocation available while preventing model-initiated loading.
- vibe mcp add --allow-insecure-http and /mcp add --allow-insecure-http opt into plaintext http:// MCP servers on non-localhost hosts, such as a server on the LAN.
- Connector discovery excludes raw HTTP connectors that do not support MCP tools.
- A single invalid connector no longer prevents the rest of your connectors from loading; an individual tool with an oversized schema is dropped on its own, and accounts over the connector cap keep…
- Automatic session titles use the active model on custom Mistral endpoints.
- Smart-approve now appears in the Vibe Desktop mode picker when enabled via its rollout, and a background refresh no longer drops it.
- ACP clients (Zed/JetBrains) always list the active mode, so a session can never get stuck on a mode missing from its own list.
- Smart-approve now escalates to a confirmation prompt when a risky action is requested again, instead of only blocking it, and shows the reason it is asking.
- New /branch command forks the current conversation into a new resumable session, leaving the current session unchanged. Resume the copy in another terminal with vibe --resume <id>.
- Bump the local harness runtime to v0.4.5.
- Make @ file mentions use Git-aware discovery and accept standalone pasted files and folders.
- Retained chats remain readable and restore their worktrees when work resumes.
- New session logs are no longer readable by other users on POSIX systems.
- AGENTS.md instructions now load into the system prompt under the experimental unified harness.
- VS Code extension: debug submenu with log level picker, open log file, and a togglable session status panel showing agent statistics (steps, tokens, tokens/sec, context, cost)
- Open the session picker faster by building the merged session listing once per cursor walk instead of on every page.
- Renamed SessionBackendKind literals from "python"/"rust" to "legacy"/"unified" to match backend identity naming.
- An "always" permission grant that fails to reach ~/.vibe now warns instead of passing silently: ConfigOrchestrator.setfield returns its errors rather than raising, so an ignored failure looked…
- Steered prompts now preserve their host-provided display content in app-server session history.
- Preserve the selected permission mode when a session starts in a worktree.
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Mistral Vibe FAQ
How much does Mistral Vibe cost?
Free plan includes limited coding sessions and $10/month API credits; Pro is $14.99/month (all-day coding in the CLI, IDE or web); Team is $24.99/user/month; Enterprise is custom. The CLI can also run on a Mistral API key with pay-as-you-go usage.
Is Mistral Vibe open source?
Yes. Mistral Vibe is open source, released under the Apache-2.0 license.
How popular is Mistral Vibe?
Mistral Vibe was downloaded 488K times from PyPI in the week ending Oct 4, 2026, down 30.9% on the week before and down 60.1% over the last 30 days compared with the 30 before. Its VS Code extension has 40.8K installs and average 4.6 out of 5 across 21 marketplace ratings. The GitHub repository has 5,050 stars, 154 of them added in the last 30 days.
What is the latest version of Mistral Vibe?
The latest stable release we track is 2.25.8, published on Sep 23, 2026.
What are the alternatives to Mistral Vibe?
The closest alternatives in the same category by Pulse Score are OpenAI Codex, Claude Code, Pi, OpenCode.
Where these numbers come from
PyPI: mistral-vibe. GitHub: mistralai/mistral-vibe. VS Code Marketplace: mistralai.mistral-vibe-code. Homebrew: mistral-vibe. See data sources for how each one is collected.
Product facts and pricing were checked against: mistral.ai, docs.mistral.ai, github.com, pypi.org, formulae.brew.sh, marketplace.visualstudio.com, open-vsx.org, en.wikipedia.org.