Claude Code vs Mistral Vibe

Feature	Claude Code	Mistral Vibe

Tagline	An agentic coding tool that lives in your terminal	Mistral's open-source CLI coding assistant
Website	https://claude.ai/code	https://mistral.ai/products/vibe
Language	typescript	python
Release Date	February 22, 2025	December 9, 2025
Last Updated	September 4, 2026	April 28, 2026
Provider Type	AI Lab	AI Lab
MCP Support	Yes	Yes
Multi-Agent Support	Yes	Yes
Git Integration	deep	deep
Multi-File Editing	Yes	Yes
Auto Test Running	Yes	Yes
Sandbox / Permissions	Yes	Yes
Image / Multimodal Input	Yes	No
Voice Mode	Yes	Yes
IDE Integration	VS Code, JetBrains	VS Code, JetBrains, Zed
Hooks / Extensions	Yes	Yes
Web Search	Yes	Yes
Local Model Support	Yes	Yes
Context Window	1M tokens	256K tokens
Terminal Bench	#2 · 57.9% ±3.8 (Terminal-Bench 4.0) ¹
AA Coding Agent Index	70% · Fable 5.1 (max, with fallback)	-
Supported Models	Claude Fable 5 / Mythos 5 (Restricted Availability), Opus 4.8, Claude Sonnet 4.6, Claude Haiku 4.5	Mistral models Devstral 2, Codestral, (BYOK) OpenRouter models (400+ Models), and custom local models. https://docs.mistral.ai/mistral-vibe/introduction
Supported Subscriptions	Claude Code	—
Pricing Model	Subscription	Freemium
Free Tier	No	Yes
Price Range	$17-200/mo	Free / $15-25/mo
Source Code Availability	Proprietary Software	Open Source (Apache-2.0)
Source Code	https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code	https://github.com/mistralai/mistral-vibe
Development State	active	active