French AI startup Mistral has announced the release of its new “vibe coding” client, Mistral Code, a AI-powered coding assistant that consolidates the company’s proprietary models and various enterprise tools into a single platform.
As of Wednesday, June 4, 2025, a private beta of Mistral Code is accessible for users leveraging JetBrains development platforms and Microsoft’s VS Code. According to a blog post provided to TechCrunch by the company, Mistral’s objective with this release is to furnish enterprise developers with top-tier coding models that facilitate a range of functions, from immediate code completions to complex multi-step refactoring processes. The platform offers flexible deployment options, including cloud, reserved capacity, and air-gapped on-premises GPU configurations.
The adoption of AI programming assistants is experiencing significant growth within the development community, driven by their potential to substantially increase coding productivity. A recent survey highlighted this trend, indicating that 76% of developers had either used or were planning to incorporate AI tools into their development workflows within the previous year. While these tools are still evolving and face challenges in producing high-quality software consistently, their adoption is being driven by both companies and individual developers.
Mistral Code operates on a combination of the company’s internally developed models, including Codestral, Codestral Embed, Devstral, and Mistral Medium. These models support more than 80 programming languages and are compatible with a variety of third-party plug-ins. The client possesses the capability to reason over various development artifacts, such as files, terminal outputs, and issues. The company’s blog post notes that the models are intended to facilitate a range of functions, including code autocomplete functionalities, sophisticated code search and retrieval tasks, “agentic” coding assignments, and chat assistance features.
Leading organizations, including Capgemini, Abanca, and SNCF, are reportedly already deploying Mistral Code in production environments. Mistral’s blog post further elucidates that customers have the flexibility to fine-tune or post-train the underlying models on their private repositories and distill lightweight variants of these models to suit specific needs. For IT managers, Mistral Code provides a comprehensive admin console that offers granular platform controls, in-depth observability into usage, efficient seat management, and detailed usage analytics.
Mistral has communicated its intention to persistently enhance Mistral Code and contribute a portion of the improvements and upgrades developed for its client back to the Continue open source project, demonstrating a commitment to the wider development community.
