Mistral AI

Codestral 2508

262K ctxText

Released Aug 1, 2025 · 46B tokens this week · 2 providers

Overview

Mistral's code-specialised model, trained for fill-in-the-middle completion across dozens of languages. Tuned for editor autocomplete, where first-token latency matters more than depth. Handles long files thanks to its extended context window.

programming

Providers

Reference data — not yet measured from live traffic

PROVIDER		MAX OUT		OUTPUT /M				QUANT
Mistral AICheapest	262K	33K	$0.30	$0.90	200ms	210	99.85%	Full
Azure AI Foundry	131K	33K	$0.34	$1.01	300ms	180	99.60%	Full

Latency p50 reflects a provider’s API endpoint responsiveness — the round-trip to its API, not per-token inference time. These figures, with throughput and uptime, are reference data until the gateway aggregates its own traffic.

Price comparison

Blended $ per 1M tokens

DeepSeek V3.2$0.37

Codestral 2508$0.75

Gemini 3 Flash$1.95

GPT-5.2$10.94

Claude Sonnet 4.5$12.00

Blended rate per 1M tokens, weighted one part prompt to three parts completion — roughly the shape of a chat workload. Your mix will move the number.

Call it

OpenAI-compatible — swap the base URL and go

curl https://model.cards/api/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $MODELCARDS_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "model": "mistralai/codestral-2508",
    "messages": [
      { "role": "user", "content": "Summarize the tradeoffs of speculative decoding." }
    ]
  }'