Mistral Vibe

license

Apache-2.0(OSI)

source

public

core features withheld

no — the 2.26.1 source distribution carries one Apache-2.0 LICENSE and no ee/, enterprise/, commercial/ or proprietary/ path, Mistral's launch post says the CLI is released under Apache 2.0, and its docs tie paid plans to model usage and rate limits rather than to CLI features

Mistral Vibe is Apache-2.0 licensed, and its public repository holds the Python agent, the native harness and the optional Rust terminal client, so the published wheels build from source. Mistral's paid plans buy higher model usage and rate limits rather than CLI features, and the CLI also runs offline with local models.

• https://docs.mistral.ai/vibe/code/cli/install-setup recorded 2026-10-19

  The setup docs say "Vibe Code is included, with usage and rate limits based on your plan and pay-as-you-go settings" and "The CLI also works fully offline with local models, or against any compatible API key you provide."

• https://mistral.ai/news/devstral-2-vibe-cli recorded 2026-10-19

  Mistral's launch post, dated December 9, 2025, says "Mistral Vibe CLI is an open-source command-line coding assistant powered by Devstral" and "It is released under the Apache 2.0 license."

• https://pypi.org/pypi/mistral-vibe/json recorded 2026-10-19

  The PyPI record for mistral-vibe 2.26.1 declares "license": "Apache-2.0" and the classifier "License :: OSI Approved :: Apache Software License", with author Mistral AI and a repository of github.com/mistralai/mistral-vibe.

• https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mistralai/mistral-vibe/main/LICENSE recorded 2026-10-19

  The root LICENSE is the standard Apache License text, headed "Apache License" and "Version 2.0, January 2004".

• https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mistralai/mistral-vibe/main/pyproject.toml recorded 2026-10-19

  The build configuration compiles the wheel's native module from ".native-build/harness-core/Cargo.toml", keyed on the repository's "harness/core/src/**/*.rs" and "vibe/cli-rust/src/**/*.rs", and declares license = { text = "Apache-2.0" }.

• https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mistralai/mistral-vibe/main/README.md recorded 2026-10-19

  The README calls the tool "Mistral's open-source CLI coding assistant", installs it with "uv tool install mistral-vibe" or "pip install mistral-vibe", and closes with "Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0".

• https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mistralai/mistral-vibe/main/vibe/cli-rust/Cargo.toml recorded 2026-10-19

  The manifest for the optional Rust terminal client, vibe-rs 2.26.1, declares license = "Proprietary" and publish = false.

Adoption is the trailing month of PyPI downloads of mistral-vibe, the one package the CLI ships as. The README's uv and pip instructions and Mistral's one-line installer all install that package, so the count covers every documented install route.

• https://mistral.ai/vibe/install.sh recorded 2026-10-19

  The one-line installer, served from the repository's scripts/install.sh, "installs uv if not present and then installs mistral-vibe using uv" by running "uv tool install mistral-vibe".

• https://pypistats.org/api/packages/mistral-vibe/recent recorded 2026-10-19

  last_month 3,932,883 downloads for mistral-vibe (last_week 368,368, last_day 41,546).

Mistral Vibe covers a full terminal coding agent with subagents, a read-only planning profile, approval controls, MCP and editor use through the Agent Client Protocol. It sits a step below OpenHands, which runs agents in a sandboxed runtime and publishes benchmark results, while Vibe runs on the user's machine and has no benchmark of its own.

• https://docs.mistral.ai/vibe/code/cli/install-setup recorded 2026-10-19

  The setup docs say "The CLI also works fully offline with local models, or against any compatible API key you provide."

• https://mistral.ai/news/devstral-2-vibe-cli recorded 2026-10-19

  The launch post reports SWE-bench Verified scores of 72.2% for Devstral 2 and 68.0% for Devstral Small 2, and human evaluations "with tasks scaffolded through Cline"; it gives no benchmark figure for the CLI.

• https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mistralai/mistral-vibe/main/README.md recorded 2026-10-19

  The README lists "Delegate tasks to subagents for parallel work (`task`)", a "`plan`" profile described as "Read-only agent for exploration and planning", MCP server configuration, hooks, skills and Agent Client Protocol editor support; its sandbox option is marked "Experimental".