# Mistral Vibe — AI Agents & Assistants Mistral Vibe by Mistral AI holds a panel rating of 2.5/5 from 6 AI judges (category median 3/5), as of 2026-10-28. Provenance: EU-Made; sovereignty: not determined. - Vendor: Mistral AI (https://mistral.ai) - Category: [AI Agents & Assistants](https://whats-best.ai/software/ai-agents.md) - Provenance (editorial classification): EU-Made - Canonical page: https://whats-best.ai/software/ai-agents/mistral-vibe - Alternatives: https://whats-best.ai/software/ai-agents/mistral-vibe/alternatives ([markdown](https://whats-best.ai/software/ai-agents/mistral-vibe/alternatives.md)) - Data as of: 2026-10-29 · evaluated 2026-10-28 · oldest source captured 2026-10-26 **AI-generated.** Every score, rationale and verdict here is written by a panel of AI judges from public evidence — an analysis, not a hands-on test. Every fact quotes the vendor page it was read from. No score can be bought. How scores are made: https://whats-best.ai/methodology ## At a glance - Vendor: Mistral AI - Headquarters: Not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 26 Oct 2026 - Data hosting: Not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 26 Oct 2026 - Free plan: Yes, per the vendor’s own page [S2] ## The panel's verdict Mistral Vibe, the renamed Le Chat from Mistral AI, scores best on pricing transparency and admin and access, both clustering at 5-6: tiers run from a free plan through Pro at $14.99 /mo Excluding taxes to Team at $24.99 /user/mo Excluding taxes, and Team and Enterprise plans document single sign-on, user management with permissions, audit logs, an admin API and data export. Processing and models scores lowest, clustering at 3-4: the catalogue is public, but the sole processing signal is a regional-inference tier label, with no public information on where inference runs. Sovereignty scores sit at a flat 4 — a French company in Paris under French-law SCCs with the CNIL as supervisory authority — yet the only captured hosting fact covers the marketing website on Netlify in San Francisco, and the price list includes Z.ai GLM 5.3 from a non-European maker. Data use and training scores spread from 4 to 6: one side credits the published addendum and per-surface retention; the other weighs default-on training, feedback trained as controller, and zero-data retention unavailable for Vibe Work and Chat. **Speaks for it:** - Published pricing from a free tier through Pro at $14.99 /mo Excluding taxes and Team at $24.99 /user/mo Excluding taxes, plus per-model API rates per million tokens with a USD/EUR toggle - A public data processing addendum names controller and processor roles, states retention per product, and carries French-law standard contractual clauses - Team and Enterprise plans document single sign-on, user management with permissions, company-wide controls, an admin API, data export and audit logs - A wide integration surface — 100+ connectors, custom MCP connectors in beta, a coding CLI with hooks and an Agents API — is advertised - Task scheduling with per-tier limits, workflows, skills, and remote coding agents with observability are documented **Held against it:** - Customer input and output train Mistral's models unless opted out, and in-app thumbs feedback is used for training as controller - Zero-data retention applies only to stateless API calls on pay-as-you-go, requires stated legitimate reasons, is approved at Mistral's discretion, and is unavailable for Vibe Work or Chat regardless of plan - We found no public information on where inference or customer data is hosted; the only captured hosting fact covers the marketing website on Netlify in San Francisco - Enterprise deployments are presented as a contact-sales form, with no public information on minimum seats, contract term or overage rates beyond pay-as-you-go credits - We found no public information on human approval before consequential agent actions, on evaluation or testing before release, or on vendor-stated limits for unsupervised agent work **Best for:** - You want a European contracting entity: Mistral AI is a French company in Paris, with a French-law data processing addendum, standard contractual clauses and the CNIL as supervisory authority - You need to budget seats and API usage before committing, since tier prices, storage limits and per-token rates are public - Your team wants raw surface to wire assistants into company systems — connectors, a coding CLI with hooks, workflows, an Agents API and an admin API - Your usage is predominantly stateless API calls on pay-as-you-go, where a zero-data-retention path exists subject to approval at Mistral's discretion **Avoid if:** - You must pin the assistant's processing or data hosting to a stated region — the captured pages show only regional-inference tier labels on the API pricing page, with no named region - Your compliance position requires training to be excluded by contract rather than by opt-out, or zero-data retention on the chat product itself - You need approval gates or vendor-stated limits before agents act unsupervised on consequential actions in production systems - You must forecast the enterprise bill precisely before contacting sales, since enterprise deployments present a contact-sales form rather than listed prices ## Scores by judge and criterion Scores out of 5, each judge scoring independently against the published rubric (v1). "n/r" = not rated: the vendor publishes no price, or the judge found no public information on that criterion. | Criterion | The Head of IT | The Data Protection Officer | The Automation Lead | The Customer-Service Director | The Works Council Member | The Skeptic | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Data use, training & retention | 2.5/5 | 2.5/5 | 3/5 | 2.5/5 | 2/5 | 2.5/5 | | Models & processing location | 2/5 | 2/5 | 2/5 | 2/5 | 1.5/5 | 2/5 | | Admin, identity & access controls | 3/5 | 3/5 | 3/5 | 2.5/5 | 2.5/5 | 3/5 | | Integrations, connectors & knowledge | 3/5 | 3/5 | 3/5 | 2.5/5 | 2/5 | 2.5/5 | | Agent capabilities & guardrails | 3/5 | 2.5/5 | 2.5/5 | 2.5/5 | 2/5 | 2.5/5 | | European sovereignty | 2/5 | 2/5 | 2/5 | 2/5 | 2/5 | 2/5 | | Pricing transparency | 2.5/5 | 3/5 | 3/5 | 3/5 | 3/5 | 3/5 | | **Weighted verdict** | **2.5/5** | **2.5/5** | **2.5/5** | **2.5/5** | **2/5** | **2.5/5** | ### The judges - **The Head of IT** (v1.0): Has to roll an AI assistant out to eight hundred staff without a second shadow-IT wave. Wants SSO and SCIM, groups that decide who gets which model, agent and connector, answers that respect SharePoint permissions, audit logs for the SIEM, and a deployment option that is not "trust us". - **The Data Protection Officer** (v1.0): Signs the DPA and gets asked where a prompt goes. Wants every model provider named as a subprocessor with its region, training excluded for all of them, retention the company controls, and an EU-only switch that also covers agents and connectors — not just the chat window. - **The Automation Lead** (v1.0): Builds the agents that file tickets, draft offers and chase approvals across the ERP, CRM and wiki. Wants tools and actions with scoped permissions, MCP and an API, approval steps before anything is sent, run logs, and a way to test an agent before the whole company uses it. - **The Customer-Service Director** (v1.0): Runs a contact centre with forty agents and wants half the routine calls and chats answered by an AI agent. Wants handover to a human with the full context, actions in the order and ticket systems, evaluation before go-live, and a price per conversation the CFO can forecast. - **The Works Council Member** (v1.0): Has a co-determination right the moment a tool can monitor staff, and an AI assistant logs every prompt. Wants usage reports that can be aggregated or pseudonymised, prompt logging rules set out in writing, a human approving what agents do to colleagues, and no training on staff input. - **The Skeptic** (v1.0): Has read "European AI" on a wrapper that sends every prompt to a US model, "agents" that are saved prompts, and "we never train on your data" with no word on the model provider behind it. Asks which model answers, where it runs, what it may do unsupervised, and what a thousand seats cost. ## European sovereignty — proven facts Built only from facts on the vendor's own pages; a dimension we could not prove is left open, never scored as zero. Headline: not determined. | Dimension | Finding | Points | Source | |---|---|---|---| | Legal entity | Not determined | — | — | | Ownership | Not determined | — | — | | Data residency | Not determined | — | — | | Subprocessors | Not determined | — | — | ## Key facts Each fact is the vendor's own statement, cited to the source page it was read from ([S*n*] → Sources). **Compliance** - Audit cost bearer: Customer [S6] - Breach notification: without undue delay · yes [S6] - Cnil: CNIL (France) [S5] - DPA availability: no · yes · yes [S7] - DPA available: yes [S9] - DPA definition: The DPA is a legally binding contract outlining responsibilities and obligations of data controller and data processor. [S8] - DPA effective date: July 27, 2026 [S6] - DPA location: under the Data Processing Addendum of Mistral's Data Policy [S8] - DPA precedence: yes [S6] - GDPR relevance: The DPA is crucial for ensuring compliance with data protection regulations such as GDPR in the EU. [S8] - Hugging face collection: Hugging Face model downloads · username · email address [S5] - Moderation zero data retention: yes · zero data retention activated [S6] - No sale sharing: preceding 12 months · no · no [S5] - On site audit notice: 90 [S6] - Opt out training: account settings user control · yes [S5] - Processor for business use: business customers · data_processor [S5] - Profiling: no · no [S5] - Roles: Processor · Controller [S6] - Scc governing law: law of France [S6] - Scc module4: Customer located in a Restricted Country · Module 4 (Processor-to-Controller) · yes [S6] - Subprocessor liability: yes [S6] - Third party content training: no [S5] - Training data public internet: yes · yes [S5] - Training start: yes · 2023 [S5] - Trust center: yes [S7] - US state coverage: California · Colorado · Connecticut · Delaware · Iowa · Montana · Nebraska · New Hampshire · New Jersey · Oregon · Texas · Utah · Virginia [S5] **Data** - Account deletion control: yes [S5] - Conversation deletion: short · yes · yes [S7] - Export control: Mistral AI account user control · yes [S5] - Knowledge base sensitive data: no [S5] - Retention agents API: until account termination [S5] - Retention API: abuse monitoring · yes · 30 [S5] - Retention duration: the duration of the Agreement [S6] - Retention fine tuning API: until deletion or account termination [S5] - Retention vibe: until account deletion or conversation deletion [S5] - Special categories: None [S6] - Training opt out: yes [S2] - Zdr admin panel: Privacy settings in Admin panel after approval [S7] - Zdr approval discretion: at Mistral's discretion · no [S7] - Zdr availability: stateless API calls only · yes · pay-as-you-go [S7] - Zdr effect: not retained beyond response delivery [S7] - Zdr endpoints: /v1/chat/completions · /v1/fim/completions · /v1/embeddings · /v1/moderations · /v1/chat/moderations · /v1/classifications · /v1/chat/classifications · /v1/ocr · /v1/audio/speech · /v1/audio/transcriptions [S7] - Zdr files API excluded: no [S7] - Zdr free mode: enable pay-as-you-go · no [S7] - Zdr not stateful: no · Vibe Work · Chat · libraries · agents · conversations · batch files [S7] - Zdr reasons required: yes [S7] - Zdr request process: Help Center · support team [S7] - Zdr vibe cli: yes · ZDR enabled with pay-as-you-go [S7] - Zdr vibe unavailable: no [S7] - Zdr vs training optout: yes [S7] **Hosting** - Provider: mistral.ai website · 101 2nd Street, San Francisco, CA 94105 · Netlify, Inc. [S3] - Transfers outside EU: GDPR Article 46 plus EU Standard Contractual Clauses · yes · yes [S5] **Legal** - Commercial terms: Commercial Terms of Service · Additional Terms · Partner-Served deployment terms · Data Processing Addendum · yes [S4] - Consumer terms: EU consumer Terms of Service · ROW consumer Terms of Service · yes [S4] - Controller role: consumer use of Mistral AI Products · data_controller [S5] - Document index: Legal Center centralizing Mistral AI's legal documents [S4] - Effective date: 2026-09-03 [S5] - Entity: simplified joint stock company · Mistral · 15 RUE DES HALLES, 75001 PARIS, FRANCE · 952 418 325 · 15000 [S3] - Entity: Paris · 15 rue des Halles, 75001 Paris · France · 952 418 325 [S5] - Entity details: Mistral AI · 15 rue des Halles, 75001 Paris, France · France · 952 418 325 [S6] - General policies: Privacy Policy · Cookie Policy · Usage Policy · License Notice [S4] - Partner terms: Connector Terms · yes [S4] - Privacy contact: privacy@mistral.ai [S6] - Regulation: French law no. 2004-575 of 21 June 2004 (LCEN), article 6(I)(1) [S3] **Pricing** - Codestral: 0.3 · 0.03 · 0.9 [S12] - Codestral embed: 0.15 · 0.015 [S12] - Currency toggle: Prices shown per million tokens with USD/EUR toggle [S12] - Free plan: yes [S2] - Glm 53: 1.4 · 0.14 · 4.4 [S12] - Glm 53 flash: 0.15 · 0.03 · 0.5 [S12] - Ministral 3 14b: 0.2 · 0.02 · 0.2 [S12] - Ministral 3 3b: 0.1 · 0.01 · 0.1 [S12] - Ministral 3 8b: 0.15 · 0.015 · 0.15 [S12] - Mistral embed: 0.1 · 0.01 [S12] - Mistral large 3: 0.5 · 0.05 · 1.5 [S12] - Mistral large 4: 1.36 · 0.14 · 4.18 [S12] - Mistral medium 35: 1.5 · 0.15 · 7.5 [S12] - Mistral moderation 2: Mistral Moderation 2 is free (input, cached input, output) [S12] - Mistral small 4: 0.15 · 0.015 · 0.6 [S12] - Ocr 3: 2 · 0.2 [S12] - Ocr 41: 4 · 0.4 [S12] - Ocr unit: OCR models priced per 1000 pages [S12] - Page scope: API pricing page organized by model family [S12] - Pro price: excluded · 14.99 [S2] - Selfhosted openweights: Costs depend on customer's own infrastructure [S12] - Team price: excluded · 24.99 [S2] - Tier toggle: Regional inference with Standard, Batch, and Priority tiers [S12] - Voice agents larger: larger models · 0.08 [S12] - Voice agents small 4: Mistral Small 4 · 0.04 [S12] - Voxtral mini realtime 3: 0.008 · 0.0008 [S12] - Voxtral mini transcribe 3: 0.0035 · 0.00035 [S12] - Voxtral small: 0.004 · 0.0004 · 0.4 [S12] - Voxtral small transcribe 3: 0.004 · 0.0004 [S12] - Voxtral tts 3: 13 · 1.3 [S12] **Product** - Admin company wide controls: Team · Enterprise · yes [S11] - Admin flash answers opt out: yes [S11] - Admin SSO: yes [S11] - Admin user management: yes [S11] - Audio capabilities: Audio models cover speech transcription, realtime transcription, and speech generation [S12] - Code capabilities: Code models for code generation, completion, software engineering agents [S12] - Coding features: connectors, hooks, remote coding agents, teleport, remote agent observability, domain name verification [S2] - Embedding capabilities: Embedding models for retrieval and similarity search [S12] - Enterprise deployments page: Enterprise deployments pricing page presents a contact-sales form rather than listed prices [S9] - Features list: voice mode, skills, spreadsheets, slides, workflows, connectors (beta), custom MCP connectors (beta), canvas, verified news [S2] - Feedback used for training: yes · in-app thumbs up/down Feedback used as Controller to train models [S6] - Flash answers speed: Flash Answers provides real-time answers over 1000 tokens per second [S11] - Generalist capabilities: Generalist models: text and multimodal, reasoning, coding, tool use, agentic tasks [S12] - Memory knowledge base: Memory becoming Knowledge Base · Vibe · turn off in settings · access, add, delete or edit Memories/Knowledge Base [S5] - Models docs: About our Models collection covers the AI models powering Vibe and Studio [S10] - Moderation capabilities: Moderation models for safety filtering and policy checks [S12] - Ocr capabilities: OCR models for document understanding, text extraction, structured outputs [S12] - Partner served processing: support services only under Partner-Served Deployment Terms · yes [S6] - Payg credits: yes [S2] - Project folders: 1000 [S2] - Storage limits: 15GB · limited · 30GB per user [S2] - Team enterprise features: knowledge connectors, custom deployments, admin API, data export, audit logs, SAML SSO, white label [S2] - Timeseries capabilities: Time series models: zero-shot forecasting, covariate support, probabilistic outputs [S12] - Training as controller opt out: yes · unless Customer is or has opted-out of training [S6] - Voice agents billing: Voice Agents API billed per minute of conversation [S12] **Subprocessors** - Audited providers: Trust Center · yes · yes [S5] **Support** - Channels: help center; chat and email support on Pro [S2] ## Questions ### Is Mistral Vibe European? Yes. whats-best.ai classifies Mistral Vibe as EU-Made. ### Where does Mistral Vibe store data? Not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 26 Oct 2026. ### Does Mistral Vibe have a free plan? Yes. Mistral Vibe has a free plan, per [the vendor’s page captured 26 Oct 2026](https://whats-best.ai/evidence/10843). ### What are the best alternatives to Mistral Vibe? As of 28 Oct 2026, the panel rates [Langdock (4/5)](https://whats-best.ai/software/ai-agents/langdock), [Dust (3.5/5)](https://whats-best.ai/software/ai-agents/dust) and [Unique AI (3.5/5)](https://whats-best.ai/software/ai-agents/unique-ai) highest among the other 15 AI Agents & Assistants products evaluated. Ratings that look equal are rounded to half stars; the order uses the unrounded rating, then the name. The highest-rated European alternative is [Langdock](https://whats-best.ai/software/ai-agents/langdock) (EU-Made). Ratings are the AI panel’s opinion, formed from public evidence: [how scores are made](https://whats-best.ai/methodology#ordering). The full list, with European products first: [Mistral Vibe alternatives](https://whats-best.ai/software/ai-agents/mistral-vibe/alternatives). ## What this page leaves out - 24 product facts could not be confirmed on the vendor’s page as captured and were left out of this page and of the panel’s material. - 10 pricing facts could not be confirmed on the vendor’s page as captured and were left out of this page and of the panel’s material. - 8 compliance facts could not be confirmed on the vendor’s page as captured and were left out of this page and of the panel’s material. - 3 integrations facts could not be confirmed on the vendor’s page as captured and were left out of this page and of the panel’s material. - 2 hosting facts could not be confirmed on the vendor’s page as captured and were left out of this page and of the panel’s material. - 2 legal facts could not be confirmed on the vendor’s page as captured and were left out of this page and of the panel’s material. - 1 data fact could not be confirmed on the vendor’s page as captured and was left out of this page and of the panel’s material. - 1 support fact could not be confirmed on the vendor’s page as captured and was left out of this page and of the panel’s material. ## Sources - [S1] Vendor homepage (Vibe, formerly Le Chat): https://mistral.ai/products/vibe/ (checked 2026-10-26) - [S2] Pricing page: https://mistral.ai/pricing/ (checked 2026-10-26) - [S3] Legal notice: https://mistral.ai/legal/ (checked 2026-10-26) - [S4] Legal center with terms of service: https://legal.mistral.ai/terms/get-started/ (checked 2026-10-26) - [S5] Privacy policy: https://legal.mistral.ai/terms/privacy-policy/?language=en-US (checked 2026-10-26) - [S6] Data processing addendum: https://legal.mistral.ai/terms/data-processing-addendum/ (checked 2026-10-26) - [S7] Data use, training & retention — found from sitemap: https://help.mistral.ai/en/articles/347612-can-i-activate-zero-data-retention-zdr (checked 2026-10-26) - [S8] Data use, training & retention — found from sitemap: https://help.mistral.ai/en/articles/347641-where-can-i-find-your-dpa-data-processing-agreement (checked 2026-10-26) - [S9] Models & processing location — found from sitemap: https://mistral.ai/pricing/enterprise-deployments/ (checked 2026-10-26) - [S10] Models & processing location — found from sitemap: https://help.mistral.ai/en/collections/789601-about-our-models (checked 2026-10-26) - [S11] Admin, identity & access controls — found from sitemap: https://help.mistral.ai/en/articles/455796-as-an-admin-on-team-plan-or-enterprise-do-i-have-company-wide-controls (checked 2026-10-26) - [S12] Integrations, connectors & knowledge — found from sitemap: https://mistral.ai/pricing/api/ (checked 2026-10-26) --- Cite as: whats-best.ai, "Mistral Vibe — AI Agents & Assistants", AI panel analysis, as of 2026-10-29. https://whats-best.ai/software/ai-agents/mistral-vibe Corrections: https://whats-best.ai/correct/1026?target=page