I’ve been running vibe-skill ( https://github.com/pcx-wave/vibe-skill ), a Claude Code skill that delegates coding tasks to Mistral Vibe instead of burning Claude tokens. I initially did that because couldn’t bear with hitting session limits so fast on Pro plan, but didn’t want to lose the quality of Claude’s planning. Here’s a breakdown after 10 days usage. What it does: you type /vibeon <whatever>, Claude decomposes the task and delegates coding to Vibe, Claude reviews the diff and corrects if necessary. Vibe’s token burn stays on the cheap model. Vibe being agnostic, i tried with default model (Mistral medium 3.5) and Deepseek vs flash. 10-day results (254 runs, 57M tokens delegated) By model: 98% success rate across 254 runs. If something fails, Claude catches it and corrects. Mistral tokens are usually 50% cheaper than Claudes, Deepseek tokens are 95% cheaper… however i’m also a pro subscriber of mistral so i get a huge quota of free tokens included with the sub (circa 1Bn). So with Mistral Pro, every delegation is $0 until quota is reached, at which point you switch to DeepSeek immediately (Mistral PAYG at $1.52/M is 10× more expensive than DeepSeek). So at what monthly volume does DeepSeek alone cost more than the Mistral sub? $18.36 mistral sub price / $0.14 per M deepseek token cost = 131M tokens/month Below 131M → DeepSeek alone is cheaper, no Mistral subscription needed. Above 131M → Mistral Pro wins, and you get ~10× more headroom before hitting the quota. More details in repo concerning orchestration flow: https://github.com/pcx-wave/vibe-skill Did a similar skill with gemini https://github.com/pcx-wave/gemini-skill as i know they give cheap tokens too, but haven’t practiced it as much yet because gemini isn’t as configurable as vibe so delegation can be a bit flaky. submitted by /u/pcx_wave
Originally posted by u/pcx_wave on r/ClaudeCode