A Decisive Month for Mistral AI
December 2025 marks a turning point for Mistral AI with the launch of Devstral 2, their new coding agentic model that rivals the best, accompanied by Mistral Vibe CLI, a command-line coding agent. The Mistral 3 family completes the offering with open-source multimodal models.
Devstral 2: The Reference Open-Source Coding Model
December 9, 2025 — Mistral launches Devstral 2, a family of coding models available in two sizes, both open-source.
Two Sizes for All Needs
| Model | Parameters | SWE-bench | API Price (input/output) | License |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Devstral 2 | 123B | 72.2% | 2.00 per M tokens | Modified MIT |
| Devstral Small 2 | 24B | 68.0% | 0.30 per M tokens | Apache 2.0 |
Performance Against Competition
Devstral 2 stands out for its efficiency:
- 5x smaller than DeepSeek V3.2
- 28x smaller than Kimi K2
- Up to 7x more cost-effective than Claude Sonnet
- Context window of 256K tokens
Introducing the Devstral 2 coding model family. Two sizes, both open source. Also, meet Mistral Vibe, a native CLI, enabling end-to-end automation. — @MistralAI on X
Human Evaluation
| Comparison vs | Win Rate |
|---|---|
| DeepSeek V3.2 | 42.8% |
Recommended Deployment
| Model | Minimum Configuration |
|---|---|
| Devstral 2 | 4 H100-class GPUs |
| Devstral Small 2 | Single GPU (RTX), DGX Spark, or CPU only |
Mistral Vibe CLI: The Terminal Coding Agent
December 9, 2025 — Along with Devstral 2, Mistral launches Vibe, an open-source command-line coding assistant.
Installation
curl -LsSf https://mistral.ai/vibe/install.sh | bashOr via uv:
uv tool install mistral-vibeKey Features
| Feature | Description |
|---|---|
| Project-aware context | Automatic analysis of structure and Git |
| Multi-file orchestration | Architectural reasoning |
| Smart references | @autocomplete, ! for shell |
| Persistent history | Context retained between sessions |
| Customizable themes | Adaptable interface |
Integrations
- Zed IDE extension available
- Local deployment configurable via
config.toml - Compatible with OpenHands, Cline, and other tools
200k Context Update
December 10, 2025 — Vibe’s context window is doubled from 100k to 200k tokens.
We’ve doubled the Vibe context limit from 100k to 200k. Happy shipping! — @MistralAI on X
Mistral 3: Open-Source Multimodal Model Family
December 2, 2025 — Mistral launches the Mistral 3 family, open-source frontier models with multimodal capabilities.
The Complete Family
| Model | Architecture | Parameters | Focus |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mistral Large 3 | Sparse MoE | 41B active / 675B total | Flagship model |
| Ministral 14B | Dense | 14B | Demanding usage |
| Ministral 8B | Dense | 8B | Balanced |
| Ministral 3B | Dense | 3B | Edge / mobile |
Performance
- Mistral Large 3: #2 on LMArena in the OSS non-reasoning category
- Ministral: Best cost-performance ratio of OSS models
- Reasoning variants of Ministral: 85% accuracy on AIME ‘25 (14B)
Common Features
| Feature | Description |
|---|---|
| Multimodal | Native image understanding |
| Multilingual | 40+ native languages |
| Variants | Base, Instruct, Reasoning |
| License | Apache 2.0 |
Availability
- Mistral AI Studio
- Amazon Bedrock, Azure Foundry
- Hugging Face, Modal, IBM WatsonX
- OpenRouter, Fireworks
Mistral OCR 3: Next-Generation Document Processing
December 17, 2025 — Mistral launches OCR 3, a model specialized in document extraction with state-of-the-art accuracy.
Performance
| Metric | Value |
|---|---|
| Win rate vs OCR 2 | 74% |
| Specialties | Forms, tables, handwriting |
| Robustness | Compression, skew, low-quality scans |
Pricing
| Mode | Price |
|---|---|
| API | $2 / 1000 pages |
| Batch | $1 / 1000 pages |
Key Features
- Handwriting — Including cursive and mixed annotations
- Forms — Detection of checkboxes, labels, dense layouts
- Complex Tables — Headers, merged cells, HTML colspan/rowspan
- Markdown Output — Enriched with HTML table reconstruction
Availability
- API via model
mistral-ocr-2512 - Document AI Playground in Mistral AI Studio
What This Means
December 2025 confirms Mistral AI’s strategy:
- Competitive Open-Source — Devstral 2 and Mistral 3 rival proprietary models while remaining under Apache 2.0
- Developer Focus — Mistral Vibe CLI offers a credible alternative to Claude Code and Codex CLI
- Complete Ecosystem — From coding models to OCR, Mistral covers more and more use cases
- Efficiency — Smaller models but performance comparable to giants