Mistral AI announced the general availability of Mistral Vibe 2.0, a major upgrade to its terminal-based AI coding agent, marking the company’s most significant push yet into the competitive market for AI-assisted software development. The release moves the product out of a free testing phase and into Mistral’s paid subscription plans, signaling a shift toward monetizing its developer tools.
The Paris-based startup has positioned itself as Europe’s leading challenger to U.S. AI companies such as OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google. The launch comes days after Chief Executive Officer Arthur Mensch said the company expects to surpass €1 billion in revenue by the end of 2026, a milestone that would reinforce its role as Europe’s most prominent AI firm despite remaining far smaller than its American peers.
Vibe 2.0 builds on earlier releases of Mistral’s Devstral 2 model and the first version of the Vibe command-line interface, which were previously offered for free. Cofounder Timothée Lacroix said the company has now finalized the product and bundled it with paid Le Chat subscriptions, reflecting growing demand from enterprise customers.
Focus on Enterprise Code and Customization
Mistral is targeting a key weakness in many AI coding assistants: limited performance on large, proprietary enterprise code bases. According to Lacroix, legacy systems often rely on internal libraries and domain-specific languages that general-purpose models trained on public repositories struggle to understand. Vibe 2.0 is designed to address that gap through deeper customization to customer code and intellectual property.
The updated CLI introduces custom subagents for specialized tasks such as deployment scripts and code reviews, multi-choice clarification prompts to reduce unintended changes, and slash-command workflows for common development actions. Unified agent modes allow teams to configure permissions and tools for different contexts, while continuous updates through the command line remove the need for manual version management.
Smaller Models, Paid Access
Vibe 2.0 is powered by the Devstral 2 model family, which emphasizes efficiency over scale. The main model has 123 billion parameters and achieved 72.2 percent on the SWE-bench Verified benchmark. A smaller 24 billion-parameter version can run on consumer hardware, including laptops, supporting on-device or on-premises use.
Mistral said dense model architectures make deployment simpler for organizations that want to keep sensitive code on their own infrastructure. This approach appeals to regulated industries such as finance, healthcare, and defense, where data control and ownership are critical.
The Le Chat Pro plan costs $14.99 per month, while the Team plan is priced at $24.99 per seat, adding administrative controls and priority support. Devstral 2 access is now billed at $0.40 per million input tokens and $2.00 per million output tokens.
