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Codestral

Mistral's code-tuned LLM.

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Best for

Best for engineering teams wanting an OSS code model with strong multi-language support.

At a glance

Pricing
freemium
Setup time
20 minutes
Learning curve
moderate
Last verified
5/26/2026

What we love

  • ✓Free for non-commercial use
  • ✓FIM support for editor integration
  • ✓Strong on long-tail languages

Where it falls short

  • −Non-commercial license limits production
  • −Behind Claude/GPT-4 on hardest tasks
  • −Smaller community than DeepSeek-Coder

Pricing

✓ Pricing verified Jun 21, 2026

2 tiers

Free (non-commercial)

$0

perpetual

  • ✓Research + personal

API

$0.20

per 1M tokens

  • ✓Commercial use

Overview

Codestral is Mistral's code-specialized LLM — 22B parameters with strong performance across 80+ programming languages. Drop-in for code completion + chat in editors.

Key features

  • ●80+ languages
  • ●32K context
  • ●Fill-in-the-middle (FIM)
  • ●Free for non-commercial
  • ●OpenAI-compatible API

Best use cases

Self-hosted code completion

Run an open code model on owned GPUs for sensitive repos.

Multi-language autocomplete

Get good completion in Rust, Haskell, OCaml, etc.

Integrations

Mistral API
Continue.dev
Cursor
Hugging Face
Ollama

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