The Mistral Vibe Insider’s Guide

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ToolGPAOctober 2026

Mistral Vibe

The Insider’s Guide

Mistral's AI chat assistant and coding agent, formerly Le Chat

Every plan, grade, refund rule and rival among AI assistants, read from Mistral Vibe’s own pages.

Made by Mistral AI · checked Oct 5, 2026 · toolgpa.com

3.0GPA

01WelcomeWhat it is, who it suits, its grades and the ten things to know first
02What it costsEvery plan, the free plan, ways to pay less and how prices have moved
03What it doesIts main features, where it runs, what it works with and who makes it
04Where it standsIts grades against its category, and whether to keep it or make your own
05The alternativesThe tools it is most often weighed against, side by side
06Quick answersThe questions people ask about it, each answered in a line or two
07About ToolGPAWho made this guide, what else is on the site, and how to cite it

ToolGPA put this guide together from Mistral Vibe’s own pages, its app-store listings and our grades. Every fact in it is on Mistral Vibe’s page too, where it is kept up to date. Checked Oct 5, 2026.

Part 01 · Overview

Welcome

What it is, who it suits, its grades and the ten things to know first

3.0

GPA, above 39 of the 57 other AI assistants we grade

Mistral Vibe is Mistral AI's chat assistant and agent for work and code, the product previously called Le Chat. The work side covers chat, web search, deep research, document creation and scheduled tasks, and the code side adds a coding agent for the terminal, IDE plugins and remote sandboxes. It has a free plan, with Pro, Team and Enterprise plans above it.

To get you started, here are 9 things to know about Mistral Vibe, taken from its own pages and our grades.

The chat side needs no setup: sign in and ask.

From our grade for ease of use

1
Best for a chat assistant and a coding agent on one plan
Mistral Vibe is what Le Chat turned into: a chat assistant that searches, researches and writes documents, plus a coding agent for your terminal and editor, both on Pro at $14.99 a month before tax.
2
Paid plans start at $14.99 a month
As its pricing page puts it: $14.99 per month, excluding taxes (Pro).
3
There is a free plan
Limited messages, web searches and coding sessions on web and mobile, with image generation, 100+ connectors and $10 a month in API credits.
4
It runs on 3 platforms
Web, iOS and Android.
5
Chat with web search
Answers questions and searches the web, with an option to fetch verified news content. Pro raises the limits to as much as 6x the Free plan's messages.
6
Deep research
Searches the web, internal documents and connected tools to compile sourced analysis on a focused topic.
7
Canvas and document creation
Creates and edits documents, presentations, code and mockups, and can turn research and data into PDFs, decks, briefs and reports.
8
A 3.0 GPA, above 39 of 57
That is against the other AI assistants we grade, on value, the free plan, features, ease of use and platforms.
9
Keep it
To replace Mistral Vibe you would be making an AI model, which you can rent by the request but not make. That is not a weekend's work, with an AI app builder or without one.

Mistral Vibe at a glance

Pricing: Free plan, from $14.99 per month, excluding taxes (Pro)
Free plan: Yes
Free trial: None stated
Runs on: Web, iOS, Android
Made by: Mistral AI, since 2024
Category: AI Assistants
Our grade: 3.0 GPA, very good
Store rating: 4.8 on the App Store, 1,293 ratings

The report card

Best for a chat assistant and a coding agent on one plan

Mistral Vibe is what Le Chat turned into: a chat assistant that searches, researches and writes documents, plus a coding agent for your terminal and editor, both on Pro at $14.99 a month before tax. Mistral gives no numbers for the free plan's limits, the pricing page bills monthly only, the App Store lists Pro at $149.99 with no period, and there's no desktop app.

ToolGPA report cardMistral VibeGraded Oct 10, 2026

Subject	Grade	Comment
Value for money	C	Pro is $14.99 a month before tax, the dear end of this category, and the pricing page shows monthly billing only, so there's no yearly saving to take. The US App Store also lists Vibe Pro at $149.99 with no period stated.
Free plan and trial	B	Free covers chat, web search, coding sessions, image generation, 100+ connectors, up to 5 scheduled tasks and $10 a month in API credits. But Mistral gives no numbers for the message, search and coding limits.
Features	B	Chat with web search, deep research across the web and your connected tools, and a canvas that turns out documents and decks. Then the coding side: an agent for the terminal, VS Code and JetBrains plugins, and scheduled tasks. Chat and code on one plan.
Ease of use	A	4.8 from about 1,300 App Store ratings. The chat side needs no setup: sign in and ask. The coding agent lives in a terminal or an IDE plugin, which is where the people who want it already are.
Platforms and integrations	B	Web, iPhone and Android, with a CLI and IDE plugins for coding, connectors to 100+ tools including Slack, GitHub, Jira and Notion, and an API. No desktop app is listed, though.

Grade point averageVery good, out of 4.03.0

An A is worth 4 points, a B 3, a C 2, a D 1 and an F nothing. The GPA is the average of the five.

Who Mistral Vibe is for

Fits if you want a chat assistant and a coding agent on one subscription
Works for people whose work lives in Slack, GitHub, Jira or Notion, since it connects to 100+ tools

Who it is not for

Skip it if you want a desktop app, because it runs on the web, iPhone and Android only
Not for you if you need to know your free limits up front, since Mistral gives no numbers
Pricey if you're a team that needs audit logs or SAML SSO, as those are Enterprise only
Tight if you're a team of one, as Team needs at least 2 users at $24.99 each a month
Watch out: prices exclude tax, billing is monthly only, and the App Store lists Pro at $149.99 with no period

Good to know

Good for

People who want a chat assistant and a coding agent in one subscription
Students: verified students pay $5.99 a month for Pro
Organizations that need on-premises or private-cloud deployment

Worth knowing

The Free plan has limited messages, web searches and coding sessions; the pricing page does not give the exact numbers.
Team needs at least 2 users at $24.99 per user / month. Audit logs, SAML SSO and white labeling are Enterprise only.
Listed prices exclude taxes, and the pricing page shows monthly billing only. The US App Store also lists Vibe Pro at $149.99 with no period stated.
No desktop app is listed: Vibe runs on the web, iOS and Android, with a CLI and IDE plugins for coding.

Part 02 · Pricing

What it costs

Every plan, the free plan, ways to pay less and how prices have moved

$14.99

A month to start. There is a free plan too

Mistral Vibe has a free plan. Paid plans start at $14.99 per month, excluding taxes (Pro).

But Mistral gives no numbers for the message, search and coding limits.

From our grade for free plan and trial

Free
$0
Limited messages, web searches and coding sessions, up to 5 scheduled tasks, image generation and $10 a month in API credits.
Pro
$14.99
per month, excluding taxes
Up to 6x the Free plan's messages and 5x its web searches, up to 15GB of libraries, all-day coding in the CLI, IDE or web, and chat and email support.
Team
$24.99
per user / month, excluding taxes; minimum 2 users
A shared workspace with up to 30GB of storage per user, domain name verification and data export.
Enterprise
Custom
Private deployments with custom models, agents and workflows, plus audit logs, SAML SSO and white labeling.

The free plan

Limited messages, web searches and coding sessions on web and mobile, with image generation, 100+ connectors and $10 a month in API credits.

Read from mistral.ai on Oct 5, 2026.

Ways to pay less

Education
Pro for $5.99 a month for students
Verified students at accredited higher-education institutions get Pro for $5.99 a month instead of $14.99, for up to 12 months, if they have not used Vibe or Le Chat before.
Stated on mistral.ai

What the app costs elsewhere

Each country’s App Store price for “Vibe Pro”, against $14.99 in the United States, in dollars at the day’s rate. The four cheapest and the four dearest of 11.

Country	Price there	In dollars	Against the US
Philippines	₱ 799.00	$12.72	15% less
Indonesia	Rp 249ribu	$13.93	7% less
Canada	$19.99	$14.05	6% less
Turkey	₺699,99	$14.24	5% less
Mexico	$299.00	$16.43	10% more
South Africa	R299.99	$18.14	21% more
United Kingdom	£14.99	$19.82	32% more
Germany	17,99 €	$20.16	34% more

Part 03 · Features

What it does

Its main features, where it runs, what it works with and who makes it

Places it runs: Web, iOS and Android

Mistral's AI chat assistant and coding agent, formerly Le Chat. Here is what it does, as its own site describes it, and what it covers: public API, AI features, chat assistant, AI search, AI agents, research.

Chat with web search, deep research across the web and your connected tools, and a canvas that turns out documents and decks.

From our grade for features

Chat with web search: Answers questions and searches the web, with an option to fetch verified news content. Pro raises the limits to as much as 6x the Free plan's messages.
Deep research: Searches the web, internal documents and connected tools to compile sourced analysis on a focused topic.
Canvas and document creation: Creates and edits documents, presentations, code and mockups, and can turn research and data into PDFs, decks, briefs and reports.
Vibe for code: A coding agent for the terminal, VS Code and JetBrains plugins, and remote agents in isolated sandboxes. Teleport hands a session between your machine and a remote agent.
Connectors and MCP: Works with 100+ tools, including email, calendar, Slack, GitHub and Jira, through connectors, and can connect to any remote MCP server.
Task scheduling: Schedules prompts, agents or workflows to run at set times: up to 5 on Free, and unlimited on Pro and Team subject to fair usage limits.

Where it runs

Web
iOS
Android

What it works with

Slack
GitHub
GitLab
Jira
Notion
Linear
VS Code
JetBrains

Mistral Vibe is made by Mistral AI, and has been around since 2024.

Part 04 · Standing

Where it stands

Its grades against its category, and whether to keep it or make your own

39/57

Other AI assistants it is graded above

Mistral Vibe's GPA of 3.0 is higher than 39 of the 57 other AI assistants we grade, and level with 8.

It stands best on ease of use (A, above 44 of 57) and worst on value for money (C, above 5).

Its paid plans start at $14.99 a month, against a middle price of $10 for the category: 26 of the 38 others that charge start lower.

On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 3.3 out of 4. 5 tools score higher and cost less.

Each grade against the category

Every bar is all 58 AI assistants we grade, cut by the letter each got. Mistral Vibe’s own letter is outlined.

CValue for money
Above 5 of 57
BFree plan and trial
Above 34 of 57
BFeatures
Above 28 of 57
AEase of use
Above 44 of 57
BPlatforms and integrations
Above 23 of 57

Price against what you get

Each dot is one of 45 AI assistants. Further left costs less; higher up scores better on features, ease of use and platforms. Mistral Vibe is the marked dot.

What paid plans start at, a month (each step along is roughly double) →

Keep it, or make your own?

Whether this is something you could build for yourself with an AI app builder, and what you would give up.

Keep it

To replace Mistral Vibe you would be making an AI model, which you can rent by the request but not make. That is not a weekend's work, with an AI app builder or without one.

It is one of the better ones too: its GPA of 3.0 is higher than 39 of the 57 other AI assistants we grade. It costs $179.88 a year.

What you could not

An AI model, which you can rent by the request but not make.
A search engine with an AI model behind it.
An AI agent, with the models and the safeguards behind it.
A library of papers and sources to search.
A real app for iOS and Android. Something home-made would be a web page.
It plugs into other products, Slack, GitHub and GitLab among them, and has an API.
The depth: we grade its features B, which means it covers the whole job.

What this rests on. Mistral Vibe’s listing: what it does, where it runs, what it plugs into and what it costs. It is a judgement about the kind of software this is. We have not built a replacement for it, and making your own means looking after it too. How we decide, and every tool’s verdict.

Part 05 · Alternatives

The alternatives

The tools it is most often weighed against, side by side

ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Microsoft Copilot and Lumo

The 5 tools Mistral Vibe is most often weighed against, with where each one differs from it.

3.4GPA
ChatGPT
Free plan · from $8/mo
OpenAI's general-purpose AI assistant for chat, images and voice.
- Only ChatGPT lists macOS, Windows and Linux apps.
- Mistral Vibe also covers AI agents and research.
Mistral Vibe and ChatGPT compared in full
3.0GPA
Claude
Free plan · from $17/mo
Anthropic's AI assistant for writing, analysis and coding.
- Only Claude lists macOS, Windows and Linux apps.
- Only Claude lists a browser extension.
- Mistral Vibe also covers AI agents and research.
Mistral Vibe and Claude compared in full
3.8GPA
Gemini
Free plan · from $4.99/mo
Google's AI assistant, tied into Gmail, Docs and other Google apps.
- Only Gemini lists macOS and Windows apps.
- Mistral Vibe also covers AI agents and research.
Mistral Vibe and Gemini compared in full
3.0GPA
Microsoft Copilot
Free plan · from $9.99/mo
Microsoft's AI assistant for chat, images and Microsoft 365 apps.
- Only Microsoft Copilot lists Windows and macOS apps.
Mistral Vibe and Microsoft Copilot compared in full
2.2GPA
Lumo
Free plan · from $9.99/mo
Proton's private AI assistant with zero-access encrypted chats.
- Lumo is open source, according to its own site.
- Mistral Vibe also covers AI agents and research.
Mistral Vibe and Lumo compared in full

Part 06 · Questions

Quick answers

The questions people ask about it, each answered in a line or two

Questions, each answered in a line or two

The short version of everything above, for when you only need the answer. Each one is told in full in its part of the guide.

Is Mistral Vibe free?

Mistral Vibe has a free plan. Limited messages, web searches and coding sessions on web and mobile, with image generation, 100+ connectors and $10 a month in API credits.

How much does Mistral Vibe cost?

Mistral Vibe lists 4 plans. Free: $0.

What platforms does Mistral Vibe work on?

Mistral Vibe is available on Web, iOS and Android.

Does Mistral Vibe offer any discounts?

Mistral Vibe publicly lists the following: Pro for $5.99 a month for students.

How is Mistral Vibe rated?

Mistral Vibe's iPhone and iPad app averages 4.8 out of 5 from 1,293 ratings on the App Store in the United States, as read on Oct 5, 2026.

Does Mistral Vibe have a Windows app?

No Windows app was listed when its pages were read on Oct 5, 2026. Mistral Vibe is listed for Web, iOS and Android.

Does Mistral Vibe have a macOS app?

No macOS app was listed when its pages were read on Oct 5, 2026. Mistral Vibe is listed for Web, iOS and Android.

Is Mistral Vibe open source?

Mistral Vibe is not described as open source on its own site, as read on Oct 5, 2026.

Does Mistral Vibe have an API?

Yes. Mistral Vibe offers a public API, according to its own site.

What does Mistral Vibe integrate with?

Mistral Vibe's listing names Slack, GitHub, GitLab, Jira, Notion, Linear, VS Code and JetBrains.

Does Mistral Vibe have a student discount?

Pro for $5.99 a month for students. Verified students at accredited higher-education institutions get Pro for $5.99 a month instead of $14.99, for up to 12 months, if they have not used Vibe or Le Chat before.

Who makes Mistral Vibe?

Mistral Vibe is made by Mistral AI. It dates from 2024.

What are the alternatives to Mistral Vibe?

The closest alternatives to Mistral Vibe in our directory are ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Microsoft Copilot and Lumo.

How does Mistral Vibe compare with other AI assistants?

Mistral Vibe's GPA of 3.0 is higher than 39 of the 57 other AI assistants we grade, and level with 8.

Is Mistral Vibe good value for money?

ToolGPA grades Mistral Vibe C for value for money. Its paid plans start at $14.99 a month, against a middle price of $10 for the category: 26 of the 38 others that charge start lower.

Could I make my own version of Mistral Vibe?

To replace Mistral Vibe you would be making an AI model, which you can rent by the request but not make.

Where this guide comes from

The prices, plans, platforms and features were read from Mistral Vibe’s own pages on Oct 5, 2026, and the grades were given on Oct 10, 2026. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Mistral's own pages on 5 October 2026, and its App Store rating. Also tested with a demo account on 2026-06-20.

Every tool we list gets five grades, A to F, each with its reason, and a GPA that averages them. How each is decided is at toolgpa.com/grades. This guide is ToolGPA’s own work; it is not made, paid for or approved by Mistral AI. Prices change, so check mistral.ai before you buy.

Part 07 · About

About ToolGPA

Who made this guide, what else is on the site, and how to cite it

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Every grade, review and ranking on ToolGPA is our own judgement. No company can pay for a grade or change one. Every tool on the site has a guide like this one, free to download and pass on. It all lives at toolgpa.com.

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