French AI startup Mistral today announced Devstral 2, a new generation of AI models designed for coding, aiming to catch up with large AI labs like Anthropic and other coding-focused LLMs.
This announcement follows the recent launch of the Mistral 3 family of open-class models and confirms Mistral’s intention to move closer to its larger and better-funded AI rivals.
The unicorn is also jumping into the Vibe coding race that has fueled the rise of companies like Cursor and Supabase with Mistral Vibe, a new command-line interface (CLI) aimed at facilitating natural language code automation with tools for file manipulation, code search, version control, and command execution.
Mistral AI is betting on the added value of context awareness, especially as it relates to business use cases. Similar to Le Chat, an AI assistant that remembers previous conversations with users and can use that context to guide answers, the Vibe CLI has a persistent history and can scan file structure and Git status to build context that informs your actions.
This focus on production-grade workflows also explains why Devstral 2 is relatively demanding, requiring at least four H100 GPUs or equivalent for deployment and accounting for 123 billion parameters. However, this model is also available in a smaller size using Devstral Small, with 24 billion parameters and can be deployed locally on consumer hardware.
These models have different open source licenses. Devstral 2 ships under a modified MIT license, while Devstral Small uses Apache 2.0.
Prices also vary. Devstral 2 is currently available for free through the company’s API. After the free period ends, API fees will be $0.40/$2.00 per million tokens (input/output) for Devstral 2 and $0.10/$0.30 for Devstral Small.
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Mistral has partnered with agent tools Kilo Code and Cline to release Devstral 2 to users. The Mistral Vibe CLI, on the other hand, is available as an extension to Zed for use within the IDE.
Mistral, Europe’s champion AI lab, is now valued at €11.7 billion ($13.8 billion) following a Series C funding round led by Dutch semiconductor company ASML, which invested €1.3 billion ($1.5 billion) in September.
