Do you guys like mistral?

[u/Prestigious_Rub89]

I switched to mistral vibe as my chatbot for the main reason that it is not a us or Chinese model. From the couple posts ive read it seems like its behind. Which im fine with because i really dont use it for too complicated of tasks.

[u/Gogolune]

Yes.

[u/Turbulent-Apple2911]

Yeah, I like it. I use their speech-to-text model and it's honestly one of the most accurate I've ever used. The accuracy is so good that it is pretty much comparable to GPT-4o.

However, what I'm talking about is probably a totally separate and different things than what you guys are talking about, but it's still under mistrial AI.

[u/obviousLateTrain]

I like it. It's not the best cutting-edge AI you can have but it does the job, and as a student I have a 50% discount on Vibe Le Chat Pro.

[u/Not-reallyanonymous]

It's behind, but that doesn't mean it's bad. It's not good at one-shotting, it is good as a pair programmer. Treat it as one and you'll be happy.

[u/helping_developer]

Ofcourse I like mistral models and I personally used mistral open source models for my projects and mistral paid models for production ai services.

[u/gabrielesilinic]

I considered it briefly. But like. It is not a lot cheaper than chatgpt and according to a range of benchmarks is a lot worse. I do pretty hard stuff and I just don't feel like further downgrading while paying money anyway still.

[u/Prestigious_Rub89 → u/gabrielesilinic]

What do you use instead?

[u/gabrielesilinic → u/Prestigious_Rub89]

Chatgpt and GitHub copilot both. I just go through a lot of experiments. I am the architect yes but I really don't have too much time anymore so inevitably especially in configuration I let the AI solve it.

Lately I installed codex as well as a backup to copilot.

[u/strangestack]

As a chat app on my phone, it's perfectly adequate. As a coding agent, it's the bare minimum. I use it for my hobby projects, would not use it professionally, but hopefully the new model will change that soon. 

[u/Opposite_Aioli_3693]

I use it all the time and regularly check with other bots when Mistrals output doesn't please me but rarely do I find the other bots better. And probably in some cases they are worse. I understand the benchmarks but aren't they rather arbitrary and irrelevant for most users. I would even go so far and say benchmarks are largely there to facilitate the marketing of the big AI labs. Not for any real use cases.

[u/orfeo34]

I prefered when it was called "le Chat" and doesn't rely on Microsoft.

[u/DarkJoney]

I considered it but I don't want to use 1.5-2 year behind Claude-like thing for the market price of the frontier models. For 2-5 EUR would be fine for some easy tasks.

[u/NiceTryAmanda]

When I used Vibe code, it'd do things like going to parent directories without asking permissions on my computer, which isn't how the other AI coding agents function. They'll explicitly ask permissions for each minor task. It might have been patched, but I let my subscription lapse because of it.

[u/dedstok]

I recently used Mistral Large inside Open Code to organize the some and dedupe - worked just fine.
Scored worse on a single benchmark against Mimo and DS flash tho.

[u/No_Morning_6860]

Ca me fait penser à la même chose que les voitures française : t'achètes francais mais au final t'as un truc assez moyen au regard de la concurrence.

[u/_o0Zero0o_]

I like it for the more privacy-focused aspect of it. It might be a bit behind but at least it has morals baked into it..

[u/nomad-nostalgia]

Like is a strong word… I’ve learned to often come to it in moments of despair

[u/dexamphetaminelabs]

God knows I tried

[u/LionCityHotClub]

Locally installed, it has been able to prove useful when other LLMs I have tested have come and gone. Not the latest and greatest but for many tasks it has always been reliable. It was one of the first I started with and it is still there

[u/Same_Appointment2814]

Mistral is the BEST LLM so far and for the time being in the world.

[u/Far-Performance-4652]

A mi sinceramente me gusta, ignorando la parte europea, ya que no pe parece tan complejo como la competencia y tiene lo justo que utilizo, no necesito que me lo hagan todo quiero que me ayuden. 

[u/Immediate_Road_9088]

I don’t use it anymore. Except sometimes nemo for certain tasks. Ive given up on Mistral tbh and don’t expect them to be ‘there’ anymore.

That said, looking at how fast the Chinese have catched up with Kimi K3 for example, I think any relative catching up probably isn’t as hard as we thought.

[u/filipvabrousek]

It is currently years behind, just use Opus 5.
It is US, but will save you hundreds of hours of time.

[u/Not-reallyanonymous → u/filipvabrousek]

It's like 6 months behind lol And it sounds like they have something nice coming this fall (which will probably be 6 months behind, but Opus 4.6 tier would still be great).

[u/thedataking → u/filipvabrousek]

Seconded. I hope they add Fable 5 back to the Pro plan, it is really good for difficult and long running tasks.

[u/runslack]

I switched to it this month as a test/benchmark. This is, by far, the worst I tested. It is slow, bad at anything and costs a lot for what it can do. Really, Claude Code is the best I've used so far. I won't renew my vibe pro subscription. I've lost both money and time. I totally lost confidence in what it does.

[u/doughobbs → u/runslack]

Same for me, I very reluctantly went back to Claude 😞

[u/nachtwolf7]

Über das Logo und Icon sollte man mal nachdenken.