Codestral 2508

About Codestral 2508

Codestral is Mistral AI's specialized code generation model, designed specifically for software development tasks. With 22 billion parameters trained extensively on code, it delivers exceptional performance on programming benchmarks and real-world development scenarios. Codestral excels at code completion, generation, explanation, and debugging across 80+ programming languages. The model features a 32K context window suitable for analyzing substantial codebases and generating complete implementations. It demonstrates particularly strong performance on Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, and systems languages. Codestral supports fill-in-the-middle completion, making it ideal for IDE integrations and coding assistants. The model is available through Mistral's API and as open weights for self-hosting. For developers seeking a dedicated coding AI that understands programming deeply, Codestral offers specialized capability that general-purpose models can't match. It's particularly valuable for code review automation, documentation generation, and AI-powered development tools.

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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-2508",
    messages=[
        {"role": "user", "content": "Hello!"}
    ]
)
print(response.choices[0].message.content)

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