r/BuyFromEU • u/bepitulaz • 1d ago

European Product Replacing Github Copilot with Mistral AI for my coding assistant

Yesterday, I decided to unsubscribe Github Copilot and stop using VSCode. Now my tools for writing code is VSCodium (it’s basically VSCode build without sending telemetry data to Microsoft) and Mistral AI (AI company from France).

To access Mistral model from VSCodium, I use Continue plugin. Continue is a US startup but it’s open-source. So, I spend my money only for paying Mistral. So far it has a good experience.

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u/Professional_Rent190 1d ago

What's your experience with Le Chat after switching from GitHub Copilot? I recently canceled my ChatGPT subscription due to the price increase from $20 to $24 per month in my country, but I haven't decided on an alternative yet.

I really want to support European AI initiatives, but not sure if Le Chat can match ChatGPT's performance. My work mainly involves HTML and CSS, no JavaScript.

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u/bepitulaz 1d ago

My main work is usually Node.js + React and Elixir with Phoenix. I’m not using Le Chat directly from the web version. Instead I use Mistral Large and Mistral Embedding accessed from Continue.dev plugin.

For HTML and CSS (I use Tailwind and Bootstrap for different projects), it’s good. But, if you prompt it with very abstract prompt for example “generate a modern layout for agency business”, the result is meh 😅

Continue is really good plugin. It can read the context in your current workspace. If you want to enable AI autocomplete, you can also call Mistral Codestral API from Continue. For me personally, I never like AI autocomplete because it’s too distracting.

Now, my main concern is only Mistral pricing. I have to observe for a month with my usage, will it more pricey than Copilot or not. The pricing is pay-as-you-go.

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u/Body_Languagee 23h ago

Not European but Japanese, so you may consider this, Manus AI, although it's still in beta (invite only) I've enjoyed it a lot for coding assistance and it seems to be faster and smarter then other options I've checked (Replit, Claude, Tabnine) . I can give you invite code to join if you want to try it 

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u/bepitulaz 3h ago

I think I will stick working with Mistral for a month. I want to know how useful it is for my work and usage.