mistralai / text-generation API-only released 2025-08-01

Codestral 2508

Name: Codestral 2508
Price: 0.3 USD
Author: mistralai

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)

Input / 1M

$0.30

Output / 1M

$0.90

Context

256K

AA Intelligence

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Closed weights — available only as a hosted API text + file → text Knowledge cutoff Mar 2025 View on OpenRouter ↗

Pricing

via OpenRouter · USD per 1M tokens · synced 2026-10-24

$0.30

input / 1M

$0.90

output / 1M

$0.03

cached input / 1M

$1.20

1M in + 1M out

:batch variant $0.15 in · $0.45 out

Context window: 256,000 tokens
Max output: 204,800 tokens
Providers: 1
Cheapest provider: Mistral · $0.30 / $0.90
Best throughput: —
AA Intelligence / Coding / Agentic: — / — / —

✓ Tool calling ✗ Reasoning ✓ Structured outputs ✗ Image input ✓ File input ✗ Audio input ✓ Prompt caching

Price history

tracking started — chart appears after 7 days of snapshots (6 recorded)

Current: $0.30 input · $0.90 output per 1M tokens

Benchmarks

Third-party indices as published through OpenRouter — Artificial Analysis and Design Arena. Not measured by us.

AA Intelligence Index: —
AA Coding Index: —
AA Agentic Index: —

Design Arena

CategoryEloWin %Rank

codecategories 1007 38.5% #124

dataviz 1017 41.1% #114

gamedev 968 36.3% #128

uicomponent 1014 46.7% #114

website 1013 37.8% #130

3d 1020 45.4% #109

Providers

1 provider · per 1M tokens · last 30 min metrics

Provider	Quant	Context	Input	Output	Uptime	Tok/s
Mistral	unknown	256K	$0.30	$0.90	100%	—
Mistral	unknown	256K	$0.33	$0.99	—	—

Provider data from OpenRouter's endpoint listing, refreshed daily.

Specifications

Organisation: mistralai
Released on OpenRouter: 2025-08-01
Context window: 256,000 tokens
Max output: 204,800 tokens
Input: text, file
Output: text
Knowledge cutoff: March 2025
Tokenizer: Mistral
Moderated by provider: No
OpenRouter id: mistralai/codestral-2508

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