Codestral 25.08 — API Pricing & Benchmarks
Codestral 25.08 is Mistral AI's mid model, released in 2025-08. The API costs $0.30 per 1M input tokens and $0.90 per 1M output tokens ($0.45 blended at a 3:1 ratio).
Explore provider routes and additional benchmark sources for Codestral 25.08
| Provider | Mistral AI |
| Input price / 1M tokens | $0.30 |
| Output price / 1M tokens | $0.90 |
| Cached input / 1M tokens | — |
| Blended price (3:1) | $0.45 |
| Context window | — |
| Max output tokens | — |
| Knowledge cutoff | — |
| License | proprietary |
| Input modalities | T |
| Output speed (tok/s) | — |
| Released | 2025-08 |
Where Codestral 25.08 fits
On a blended 3:1 basis Codestral 25.08 costs $0.45 per 1M tokens, cheaper than 85% of the 80 priced models in this index. It sits in the mid-tier bracket where most production chat, RAG and summarization workloads run: meaningfully cheaper than flagships while keeping most of their capability.
Price history
| Period | Input $/1M | Output $/1M | Cached $/1M |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-07-18 → current | $0.30 | $0.90 | — |
No list-price changes recorded since tracking began. Full dataset: price-history.json (CC BY 4.0).
Alternatives at a similar price
- GPT-5.6 Luna (OpenAI) — $0.45/1M blended, AA Index 52.3
- GPT-5.4 nano (OpenAI) — $0.46/1M blended, AA Index 39.7
- GLM-4.5-Air (Zhipu AI (Z.ai)) — $0.43/1M blended, AA Index 16.7
- MiniMax M3 (MiniMax) — $0.52/1M blended, AA Index 45.4
About Mistral AI
Mistral AI is Europe's leading LLM lab, shipping a mix of open-weights models (Mistral Small, Large) and proprietary ones, plus the code-focused Codestral line. European data-residency requirements often shortlist Mistral by default.