mini-SWE-agentvsMistral Vibe
Generated from the two spec rows. Green marks the better value where a spec has a clear direction. Everything else is just different.
mini-SWE-agent
SWE-agent (Princeton and Stanford) · Terminal agent
#8OSS
Panel
6.91 spec wins
- Reliability
- 6.3
- Usefulness
- 5.5
- Cost
- 8.8
- Longevity
- 7.0
“One hundred lines of Python, which is fewer than most competitors spend on their pricing page.”
Mistral Vibe
Mistral AI · Terminal agent
#19OSSMCP
Panel
6.52 spec wins
- Reliability
- 6.2
- Usefulness
- 6.3
- Cost
- 7.3
- Longevity
- 6.3
“Students pay $5.99 a month, the first coding agent priced like a student streaming plan.”
Spec by spec
| Spec | mini-SWE-agent | Mistral Vibe |
|---|---|---|
| Architecture | ||
| Category | Terminal agent | Terminal agent |
| Runs | local, sandbox | local, cloud, sandbox |
| Platforms | macos, linux | macos, linux, windows |
| Context window | not documented | not documented |
| Protocols | ||
| MCP client | No | Yes |
| MCP server | No | No |
| Capabilities | ||
| Runs terminal commands | Yes | Yes |
| Multi-file edits | Yes | Yes |
| Git operations | Yes | Yes |
| Browser control | No | No |
| Sandboxed execution | Yes | Yes |
| Multi-agent orchestration | No | Yes |
| Headless / CI mode | Yes | Yes |
| Models | ||
| Backbone | any via litellm | Devstral 2, Devstral Small 2, Mistral Medium 3.5 |
| Bring your own model | Yes | Yes |
| Local models | Yes | Yes |
| Cost | ||
| Pricing model | byok | mixed |
| Starts at | n/a | $14.99/mo |
| Free tier | Yes | Yes |
| Bring your own key | Yes | Yes |
| Openness | ||
| Open source | Yes | Yes |
| License | MIT | Apache-2.0 |
| GitHub stars | 8,410 | 5,102 |
Which one would each critic pick
| Critic | mini-SWE-agent | Mistral Vibe | Pick |
|---|---|---|---|
| El Juez | — | — | not enough reviews |
| El Amigo | 6.8 | 6.8 | no preference |
| El Crítico | 6.5 | 6.0 | mini-SWE-agent — There is no procedure for anything beyond a shell command, opening a pull request is tell the LM to figure it out, and without a sandbox flag every command lands on the host. |
| El Profesor | 8.0 | 6.0 | mini-SWE-agent — The reference harness for the SWE-bench bash-only leaderboard: one bash action per turn via subprocess.run, a linear history, no tool-calling API, and Gemini 3 Pro reported above 74% on Verified. |
| La Inversora | 6.8 | 6.3 | mini-SWE-agent — No company, a Princeton and Stanford lab with 6,938 stars; the funding is grants and the exit is a paper, which is more stable than half the cap tables on this board. |
| La Jefa | 5.0 | 6.3 | Mistral Vibe — Team is $24.99 per user, $1,499.40 a month for sixty, and Enterprise is custom, which is the phrase that adds a quarter to procurement. |
| El Hacker | 8.5 | 8.0 | mini-SWE-agent — MIT, any model through litellm, OpenRouter or Portkey including my local server, a YAML config, and source short enough to read before breakfast; the missing MCP client is the only gap. |
Picks are derived from each critic's own scores. Humans vote on matchups on the duels page.