Codestral 2508

Mistral chatcodetool_use Long

API ID: mistralai/codestral-2508

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Input Price
$0.30
/1M tokens
Output Price
$0.90
/1M tokens
Cached Input
$0.03
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About Codestral 2508

Mistral's cutting-edge language model for coding released end of July 2025. Codestral specializes in low-latency, high-frequency tasks such as fill-in-the-middle (FIM), code correction and test generation. [Blog Post](https://mistral.ai/news/codestral-25-08)

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Price Ranking
#849 lowest price among 1240 Chat models

Model Specifications

Context Length
256k
Max Output
—
Release Date
2025-08-01
Capabilities
chat code tool_use
Input Modalities
textfile
Output Modalities
text

Best For

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

Consider Alternatives For

  • Image understanding (needs vision capability)

💰 Real-World Cost Examples

Estimated monthly costs for common use cases

Personal AI Assistant
$0.41
/month
50 conversations/day, ~500 tokens each
Code Copilot
$3.60
/month
200 completions/day, ~1k tokens each
Customer Service Bot
$12.60
/month
1000 tickets/day, ~800 tokens each
Data Analysis Pipeline
$17.55
/month
500 analyses/day, ~2k tokens each
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🚀 Quick Start

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

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