Codestral 2501

Mistral chatcode Long Free

API ID: mistralai/codestral-2501

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Input Price
Free
/1M tokens
Output Price
Free
/1M tokens

About Codestral 2501

[Mistral](/mistralai)'s cutting-edge language model for coding. Codestral specializes in low-latency, high-frequency tasks such as fill-in-the-middle (FIM), code correction and test generation. Learn more on their blog post: https://mistral.ai/news/codestral-2501/

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Price Ranking
#6 lowest price among 1240 Chat models — Top 20% cheapest!

Model Specifications

Context Length
256k
Max Output
—
Release Date
2025-01-14
Capabilities
chat code
Input Modalities
text
Output Modalities
text

Best For

  • Code generation, debugging, code review, refactoring
  • Conversations, content writing, general assistance

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  • Image understanding (needs vision capability)
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Get started with Codestral 2501 API

OpenAI-compatible SDK 
from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(
    base_url="https://api.provider.com/v1",
    api_key="YOUR_API_KEY"
)

response = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="mistralai/codestral-2501",
    messages=[
        {"role": "user", "content": "Hello!"}
    ]
)
print(response.choices[0].message.content)

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