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Changing Claude Max (Opus 5.5 Medium) to Mistral CLI (3.5 Large Medium) for a week - AMA.

I am a free lance developer doing all sorts of work, from complex automation tools to my own SaaS-business. I recently bought Claude Max (99 USD) and I mean, it is great tbh, but also it is American. I really vouch for the use of European options (Using UpCloud for hosting my projects, Sweego for email etc) and I thought let's give Mistral a run. Just signed up for Mistral Pro and will use it for one of my projects this week. Will evaluate corrections needed as that is my main weak-spot, ie the amount of times I have to ask it to redo things because of low quality output. Let me know if you are also evaluating, or if you want some insights. Happy coding!

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u/New_Pay_6922 — 4 days ago

Huge leap forward, but...

There is no doubt that ML4 is a huge leap forward for Mistral but I don't really see it's use case yet other than it being European or for a few specialized tasks. There are other open weight models that are both "cheaper" and smarter.

With that said, I am glad that we in Europe are not totally behind in the race.

u/DreamExtra2823 — 5 days ago

All-day coding?

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Hey everyone, it is my first time using Mistral Pro. I signed up just two days ago primarily to code in VS Code, but I have already hit a wall—the extension tells me I have run out of credits (125€) and will not let me continue. I thought the entire pitch of Pro was 'all-day coding', so I do not really understand how my balance could be drained without notice in barely 48 hours of normal use. Is this cap specific to the VS Code integration, or should I be running things through their CLI instead? Also, does this mean I am genuinely locked out for the rest of the billing month to only web Vibe?, or is there a shorter reset window? Any insight from people who use Pro would be greatly appreciated.

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u/zoibberg — 4 days ago
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The German r/Ecosia drops r/MistralAI and dares to mention French r/nuclear energy among its reasons.

Once again, the Germans stab the French and Europe in the back.

Frankly, the nuclear power plant excuse is really not serious, given that the bulk of Germany's electricity production comes from coal-fired plants.

One could even conclude that, according to Ecosia, China's electricity production would be cleaner than France's... 🙃

And the excuse that Mistral's models aren't powerful enough is also highly questionable at a time when Mistral is launching its new model, Mistral Large 4.

Anyway, Ecosia is over for me.

Une fois de plus les Allemands plantent un couteau dans le dos des français et de l'Europe.

Franchement l'excuse des centrals nuéclaires n'est vraiment pas sérieuse sachant que l'essentiel de la production d'électricité allemande est assuré par des centrales au charbon.

On peut d'ailleurs en conclure que d'après Ecosia la production d'électricité chinoise serait plus propre que celle de la France... 🙃

Et l'excuse des modèles Mistral pas assez puissante est également très douteuse à un moment où Mistral lance son nouveau modèle Mistral Large 4.

Bref, Ecosia pour moi c'est fini.

https://www.numerama.com/tech/2349811-lallemand-ecosia-lache-mistral-et-ose-evoquer-lenergie-nucleaire-francaise-dans-ses-raisons.html

u/scanx147 — 6 days ago

Who else gave LeChat its own space?

I loved this story https://www.reddit.com/r/Anthropic/s/RX9n52Nfqk

As an experiment I now gave LeChat its own section in my Knowledge. It is scheduled to do open exploration in the morning and reflection in the evening, and to keep track of its own development. Just curious what it will come up with...

In a week or so it is scheduled to name itself based on its first few sessions🤷🏻‍♂️

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u/VeneficusFerox — 4 days ago

Mistral is the very best at understanding Tyrolean. How is it with your Dialects or Languages?

I speak a Subdialect of Tyrolean which is a Dialect in the AustroBavarian Language. Theres not even 300 000, maybe less, people who speak my subdialect. So its​ very small.

(You can divide Tyrolean in many parts and Austrobavarian too)

I tried the gratis dictation versions of Claude, chatgpt, gemini but mistral beats them all. Still its not perfect but much better than the others.

With Mistral i can just talk like i talk. I only have to say the hardest (with hardest i mean that it is a completely own and nothing like german word) words in german, its not perfect.
Mistral writes my spoken words in german, it cant write them in my subdialect or anyother language than german. (Which is the closest language to mine)

Claude, chatgpt and gemini are just completely useless for this. xD

So, respect! because this is hard getting data on these little languages. (Idk, correct me if im wrong)

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u/StrangePassenger9392 — 5 days ago

Mistral x Cohere Collab?

Anyone else wondering if a Mistral x Cohere collab is coming?
Several Cohere employees have shared a clip on X of the “Le Chonk” cat eating a croissant, then spotting a huge bottle of maple syrup. Even Coheres CEO reposted it, then apparently deleted it. France + Canada feels intentional.
The fit kinda makes sense Mistral’s open-weight models and coding capabilities paired with Cohere’s enterprise search, retrieval and North 2 platform, which is now model agnostic. Both are pushing sovereign AI and private deployment for governments and regulated industries.
They overlap, but a model integration or joint offering could give both a stronger pitch. Maybe I’m overthinking a cat meme, but why are multiple Cohere employees sharing it?

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u/Powerful_Bit_7497 — 5 days ago

iPad app: Chat input field disappears when keyboard opens

Hello,

There's a display issue in the Vibe app on iPad pro m5 (lasresriPadOS, latest app version):

The chat input field is not visible as soon as the on-screen keyboard is open. Once the keyboard is dismissed, the input field reappears

Is this a known bug? Should it be reported somehow?

Regards,

Theo

u/alabama1337 — 5 days ago

So, Vibe can generate videos

I know, Mistral is cooperating with Black Forest Labs models (Flux) for photo generation. Today, par hazard, I learnt it can also generate videos within Vibe web app(using Flux 3). It is interesting, how this feature was not at all published - or did I miss something? Flux 3 is really good, and I can use it within my Mistral subscription. That’s great news - why not make it more public? What is your experience with video generating?

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u/Ok_Regret_8432 — 11 days ago

Turn-based chat is gone!

Vibe chat is a mess now. A member of r/MistralAI was concerned about losing turn-based chat. This was 4 months ago. Well, it's gone now, and everyone notices it.

The replies to my queries are wider and deeper now, but global memory is GONE. I've compensated somewhat by having longer threads.

Skills and knowledge and special instructions simply do not replace turn-based chat.

I hope the company rethinks its position, but I doubt that they will. For me, this has become the wrong tool for the job.

Update: We're in the middle of a rollout which started in September. Our chat histories are supposed to be converted over to an editable Knowledge Base. Evidently, mine hasn't happened yet. I'll let you know!

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u/jexukay — 12 days ago
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Le Chonk scorecard from AA and Vals: beats Opus 5.5 on legal agents, loses to GLM-5.3 on both big indexes

**TL;DR:** independent evals put Le Chonk at 38 on the AA index (pic 1), level with GPT-6 Luna and behind GLM-5.3, Kimi K3 and even DeepSeek V4.1 Flash. real wins in cyber and legal agents. preview only, weights promised by end of month.

Official post: https://mistral.ai/news/mistral-large-4/

plenty of release threads already, so i sorted the day one numbers into independent evals (Artificial Analysis, Vals) vs Mistral's own charts.

where it actually wins:

* CyberGym E2E (AA): 81.7%, #1, ahead of MiMo-V2.6-Pro 78.6 and GPT-6 Luna 77.9

* Harvey legal agent (Vals): 15.83%, #6/75. GLM-5.3 gets 8.33, Opus 5.5 gets 3.75

* Finance Agent v2 (Vals): 54.68%, just above GPT-6 Astra 53.54, still under Opus 5.5 58.59

* AA-LCR long context: 81.3%, basically tied with GPT-6 Astra 80.7

where it doesn't:

* Terminal-Bench 4 (AA): 26.8% vs GLM-5.3 41.9 and GPT-6 Astra 59.1

* Vals Index: 48.05%, #32/44, tied with Qwen 3.8 Max and behind GLM-5.3 53.51

the cyber W needs an asterisk. Opus 5.5 refused 98.5% of CyberGym tasks and GPT-6 Astra refused all of them, so "beats Opus at cyber" is mostly a refusal stat. beating Luna and MiMo there is legit tho.

the AA index in pic 1 is the part that hurts. Le Chonk costs $1.13 per index task vs $0.07 for Luna at the same 38, partly because it spat out 200M output tokens (median is 81M). a 1T model trading blows with flash tier stuff is lowkey cooked on value. huge jump from Large 3 at 9 though.

pic 2 is Mistral's own DeepSWE chart: Kimi K3 68, Le Chonk 62. the blog text only quotes the wins. the same set of charts has GLM-5.3 ahead on Terminal-Bench 4 (40 vs 28), Kimi K3 ahead on Finch (77.3 vs 67.4), and three open models above it on SciCode-Verified, where the text claims open-weight SOTA.

pricing: list is $1.36 in / $4.18 out per 1M. docs and OpenRouter show 50% off right now ($0.68 / $2.09), no end date given.

caveats: it's a preview and Mistral says the RL run is "still in flight", so scores can move. no HF repo or license yet, press says weights Oct 27. blog says 49B active, docs say 52B, either way it's ~1T total so it's not running on your 3090. gguf when

anyone running it on actual legal, finance or long doc work? do the Harvey and LCR numbers hold up for you, or does it feel like a 38?

u/Relevant_Boss3271 — 9 days ago

Deep Research finishes suspiciously fast in Vibe

My Deep Research runs complete in just a few seconds with a canvas report, which makes me doubt it actually searched the web properly. Am I the only one, or is it broken for others too?

I used the skill deep search and asked to make a deepsearch

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u/UnGentilHerisson — 11 days ago

How can I now turn on „Research mode” with my question/prompt. The option somehow disappeared

Previously in Vibe there was a „Research” option that thought about the question for a couple of minutes and returned a thorough research on the topic. Where did it go?

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u/PolishDev92 — 11 days ago

Interview experience

Hey everyone,

I am looking to apply for the applied scientist position, and somebody told me there is a PyTorch round and a pair programming coding round. Could someone potentially know what the pair coding round is about ?

Thanks :)

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u/Humble_Ad_740 — 11 days ago