French company Mistral AI has unveiled Mistral Vibe 2.0, a terminal native coding agent that adds a series of upgrades for developers.
Vibe 2.0 is powered by the Paris-based startup’s Devstral 2 model family and will enable users to “build, maintain and ship code faster,” according to the company.
The update, which is available through Mistral’s subscription plans as well as via pay-as-you-go access or Bring Your Own API Key, constitutes a major step forward for the firm as it underscores its position as the leading European company challenging the dominant U.S. players in AI-assisted software development.
While Vibe already utilized natural language commands, multifile orchestration, smart references and full codebase context, Mistral highlighted areas where the coding agent has been improved.
First, custom specialized sub agents can now be built and invoked on-demand for targeted tasks, with Mistral citing deployment scripts, pull request reviews and test generation as examples of what is possible.
Multichoice clarifications are also now featured. When intent is unclear or ambiguous, developers are prompted with additional options from Vibe to reduce the risk of inaccurate edits.
They will also have access to slash command skills, which enable preconfigured workflows to be loaded for common tasks such as deploying, linting or generating documents.
Finally, unified agent modes allow specific tools, permissions and behaviors to be combined, meaning developers can switch contexts without having to change tools.
In addition, Mistral says that bug fixes and improvements in the command line interface are now shipped automatically, eliminating the need for manual updates.
Vibe 2.0 is available via Mistral’s Le Chat Pro plan (currently $14.99 a month) or the more comprehensive Le Chat Team ($24.99 per month), which adds priority support.
Two different pay-as-you-go rates are available for Devstral access via API, dependent on usage, while there’s an Experiment plan available in Mistral Studio that offers free usage for testing and prototyping.
Mistral said it will also offer bespoke solutions for enterprise customers with more advanced requirements.
The release comes a week after CEO Arthur Mensch told Bloomberg at the World Economic Forum in Davos that the company hopes to surpass $1 billion in revenue this year.
By positioning itself as a European alternative to the major American frontier model providers and their Chinese challengers in a fraught geopolitical landscape, it has attracted some heavy funding — including a $2 billion Series C round led by Dutch chipmaker ASML in September of last year.
