French AI startup Mistral launched Devstral 2, a coding-focused AI model, as it competes with larger AI labs like Anthropic and other coding-specialized LLMs. The release follows Mistral’s Mistral 3 open-weight models and signals the company’s push into coding automation.
Alongside Devstral 2, Mistral introduced Mistral Vibe, a command-line interface (CLI) for code automation through natural language. Vibe CLI provides file manipulation, code search, version control, and command execution. It leverages persistent history and scans file structures and Git statuses to build context-aware workflows, similar to Mistral’s Le Chat assistant.
Devstral 2 contains 123 billion parameters and requires at least four H100 GPUs for deployment, while Devstral Small, with 24 billion parameters, can run on consumer hardware. Devstral 2 uses a modified MIT license, and Devstral Small is under Apache 2.0. API pricing starts at $0.40/$2.00 per million tokens for Devstral 2 and $0.10/$0.30 for Devstral Small.
The product positions Mistral in the growing vibe-coding and no-code AI space, joining initiatives like Empromptu, which raised $2 million to help nontechnical business users build AI apps with agentic automation and enterprise governance, and Anthropic’s multi-year partnership with Accenture to integrate Claude AI tools into enterprise development workflows.
