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Codestral 2508
Scores reviewed 2026-06-27Prices checked 2026-10-25Mistral
- OpenRouter
- mistralai/codestral-2508
- Context
- 256K
- Price per 1M
- $0.3 in / $0.9 out
- Tooling
- 3/5
- Deploy
- Cloud API
Monthly cost, worked example
| Input | 667,000 tokens × $0.3 per 1M | $0.2 |
|---|---|---|
| Output | 333,500 tokens × $0.9 per 1M | $0.3 |
| Total | ~$0.5/mo |
667 requests a month at 1,000 input and 500 output tokens each, about 1M tokens. The recommender uses the same assumption when you don't give your own usage.
Best for
- Writing and editing code
- Long documents (~256K context)
- Cost-sensitive, high-volume workloads
Skip if
- You need a specialized, domain-tuned model
Capability scores
Tool calling3/5
Tooling (1-5): how reliably the model calls tools and follows multi-step instructions. Editorial score from LMFinder, not a benchmark.
Multi-step reasoning3/5
Specifications
- Context window
- 256K tokens
- VRAM
- N/A (cloud-hosted)
- License
- mistral-ai-non-production
- Pricing
- $0.3 in / $0.9 out per 1M
- Deployment
- Cloud API
- Docs
- Model docs ↗
Our take
Codestral 2508 from Mistral offers a 256K-token context window and is well-suited to coding, long-context work. Pricing is $0.3 in / $0.9 out per 1M, billed per token through the provider API.
It is a balanced pick with no major caveats for most use cases. License: mistral-ai-non-production.
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