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Re:Ask HN: Claude Code Alternative by phillc73 on Tuesday April 21, 2026 @05:33PM (#47854790)
Mistral Codestral [1]

The Mistral Studio product is currently free to use. Le Chat Pro costs €18/month. [2] Either API keys will work with Vibe CLI.

[1] https://mistral.ai/

[2] https://mistral.ai/pricing

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Re:Ask HN: Claude Code Alternative by Frannky on Tuesday April 21, 2026 @06:31PM (#47855494)
Are you using Mistral? Is it good? I wasn't able to find benchmark comparisons with Opus
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Re:Ask HN: Claude Code Alternative by phillc73 on Wednesday April 22, 2026 @06:34AM (#47861563)
I like it, but I haven't used Opus so it's hard to compare.

From the benchmarks I've seen, Mistral's offerings are right up there with other open source options, but not quite at the frontier with closed source models.

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