Mistral: Codestral
Codestral is a language model from Mistral released on May 29, 2024. It reads text and writes text, with a 256K token context window and up to 4K tokens per reply.
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It costs $0.30 per million input tokens and $0.90 per million output tokens. Cached input bills at $0.03, 90% less than fresh input.
It supports tool calling and prompt caching, and its weights are open, so you can host it yourself.
4 providers serve it, including Vercel AI Gateway, Eden AI and Merge Gateway.
- Modalities
- In / out price
- $0.30 / $0.90 per 1M
- Context
- 256K
- Max output
- 4K
- Released
- May 29, 2024
- Knowledge cutoff
- Oct 2024
- Tool calling
- Structured output
- Reasoning
- Prompt caching
- Open weights
- Free to use
Codestral pricing
USD, as listed on Oct 15, 2026. Most bills are input heavy, so the cached input rate matters as much as the headline price.
| Input | $0.30 / 1M tokens | |
|---|---|---|
| Output | $0.90 / 1M tokens | |
| Cached input (read) | $0.03 / 1M tokens | 90% off input |
Codestral providers
4 providers serve it, including Vercel AI Gateway, Eden AI and Merge Gateway. Each host sets its own price and limits, so the cheapest one is not always the one with the longest context.
| Provider | Input /M | Output /M | Cache read /M | Context | Max output |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mistral First party | $0.30 | $0.90 | $0.03 | 256K | 4K |
| Vercel AI Gateway | $0.30 | $0.90 | $0.03 | 256K | 4K |
| Eden AI | $0.30 | $0.90 | $0.03 | 256K | 4K |
| Merge Gateway | $0.30 | $0.90 | – | 256K | 4K |
What Codestral costs per month
Pick a workload close to yours or type your own volumes.
Supported request parameters
What you can set when you call Codestral through an OpenAI compatible API.
- Tools
tools - Temperature
temperature
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Codestral questions
How much does the Codestral API cost?
$0.30 per million input tokens and $0.90 per million output tokens, with cached input at $0.03. The estimator on this page turns that into a monthly bill for your own workload.
What is the context window of Codestral?
256,000 tokens of input, and it can write up to 4,096 tokens in one reply. As a rough guide, a million tokens is around 750,000 English words.
Which providers serve Codestral?
4 providers serve it, including Vercel AI Gateway, Eden AI and Merge Gateway. Prices differ by host, so the Providers table on this page lists each one with its input and output price.
Does Codestral support tool calling?
Yes. It accepts tool definitions, which is what an agent needs to call your APIs.
Is Codestral open source?
Its weights are published, so you can run it on your own hardware or a cloud of your choice. Read the license before commercial use.
When was Codestral released?
May 29, 2024, with training data up to Oct 2024.
Catalog data from models.dev (MIT licensed), refreshed daily, last on Oct 15, 2026. The summary is written from these facts.
Building on Codestral?
I test your real tasks on it and the two closest alternatives, then ship the agent on whichever wins on cost and accuracy.
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