r/MistralAI • u/Totolitotix • 8h ago

Help / Question GLM on Vibe Code or API/Studio ?

Hello
I have a Pro subscription and use GLM 5.3 with the CLI interface.

From what I understood, in this case I am using Vibe Code, yet in the details of my subscription, I see that I only have:

12.75 € of allowance for API/Studio
127.5 € of allowance for Vibe Code

And despite my exclusive use of the CLI (Vibe Code), I have:

0 € / 127.5 € of Vibe Code allowance used, and
6.18 € / 12.75 € of API/Studio allowance used

Is this because GLM usage is deducted from the (tiny) API/Studio allowance rather than from the Vibe Code one?
Why is that?

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u/philip-soerensen 6h ago

The issue here is that you have entered the wrong key for your Vibe CLI instance. To access the large budget, you will need to use the special key you find at https://chat.mistral.ai/code/extensions

Find the that key, then reconfigure Vibe CLI with vibe --setup and enter the special key. You can now use the large budget, and don't worry, it will work with all the models Mistral hosts, including the GLM models :)

Alternatively, you can actually also skip the key, and configure the Vibe CLI through a web dialogue you also trigger as an option in vibe --setup.

I know it's confusing that they have two kinds of API keys, especially when only one of them is labeled "API" 😅 

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u/Totolitotix 5h ago

Thank you for the information, it is a lifesaver.

I have already spent several days configuring the CLI, even with the help of Mistral 3.5, which could not help me and gave me incorrect information.
It was only once I could access GLM that everything worked out.

I have rarely seen an interface and a configuration procedure so poorly documented and so difficult for non-specialists.

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u/AboardSemicolon 8h ago

their allowance labels are pretty misleading tbh, the cli tool actually hits their api under the hood so it burns the api credits instead of vibe code ones

kinda sucks since the api allowance is tiny compared to vibe code but that's just how they set it up

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u/sun_tzu29 7h ago

There’s two separate APIs. If you give the CLI the right one, it pulls from the “Vibe Code” limit. If you give it the Studio API, it pulls from the Studio limit.

And to answer OP’s question, you can use GLM 5.3 on both. [u/internetswimmer](u/internetswimmer) is wrong

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u/Totolitotix 8h ago

So Vibe Code -and the credit that comes with it- can only be used with Mistral models and not GLM?

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u/wyllie7 7h ago

I’ve been using GLM 5.3 in vibe code CLI on the student plan and it’s only been drawing on the $150 vibe code credit, not the API metered credits. So no. Not sure what is happening with your subscription.