Mistral: Codestral 2508

Public pricingIntelligence 79/100Large memoryToolgebruik

Mistral: Codestral 2508 is een tekst-model voor coderen, debuggen en technisch werk. Het combineert sterke codeprestaties en lage latency en efficiënte inferentie, een context van 256K tokens en een laag geprijsd-profiel voor betrouwbaar werk in coding, debugging, and technical writing.

Input

$0.30/1M

Output

$0.90/1M

Cached

$0.03/1M

Batch

$0.15/1M

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Technical specifications

Codestral 2508 at a glance.

Memory

256,000

tokens

Max reply

32,768

tokens

Memory tier

Large

an entire book or large codebase

Tokenizer

mistral

Released

Aug 2025

Training cutoff

Mar 2025

Availability

Public pricing

Status

active

Benchmarks

Quality benchmarks

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What it can do

Capabilities & limits.

  • Understands images
  • Deep step-by-step thinking
  • Uses tools / calls functions
  • Strict JSON output
  • Streams replies
  • Fine-tunable on your data

When to pick Codestral 2508

  • Agentic workflows that call tools or APIs.
  • Long documents, full codebases, or extensive chat histories.
  • High-volume workloads where unit cost matters.
  • Code generation, review, or refactoring.

When to look elsewhere

  • Your workload involves images — pick a vision-capable model instead.

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FAQ

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At a typical workload of 50,000 conversations a month with 1,500-token prompts and 800-token replies, Codestral 2508 costs roughly $59 per month. Input is $0.30 /1M tokens and output is $0.90 /1M tokens.
Codestral 2508 has a 256,000-token context window (large memory — an entire book or large codebase). That means you can fit about 48,000 words of input and history in a single call.
Beyond text generation, Codestral 2508 supports calling functions / tools, strict JSON output, fine-tuning on your own data. It streams replies by default.
Codestral 2508 was released in August 2025, with training data cut off around March 2025.
Models in a similar class include Gemini 2.5 Flash, Claude 3 Haiku, Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Preview. The "Similar models" section below this FAQ links into each.

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