AI Launch Profile
Codestral
Mistral AI introduced Codestral as its first code model, focused on code generation, completion, fill-in-the-middle, tests, and code interaction.
At a glance
Launch Snapshot
- Company
- Mistral AI
- Launch date
- May 29, 2024
- Launch type
- Model Release
- Category
- AI Coding Tools
- Audience
- Developers, Enterprises
- Pricing
- The May 2024 launch offered an eight-week free endpoint beta and paid API access. Mistral’s model card marks Codestral 24.05 (codestral-2405) as retired on June 16, 2025. Those launch offers are historical; they do not establish current access or pricing for later Codestral versions. The 2024 weights used the Mistral AI Non-Production License, with commercial licenses offered separately.
- Free plan
- Not publicly confirmed
- API
- No
- Open weights/source
- Yes
Launch Context
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Verification & Sources
- Evidence state
- Recheck due
- Source links
- 3
- Freshness
- Needs recheck: checked June 8, 2026
- Last updated
- June 11, 2026
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Kingy Launch Score
6.9 / 10 · Mixed
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Why this score
- Source & verification 7.0/10 — The Mistral announcement plus the model card documentation — two first-party sources. mistral.ai
- Product evidence 7.5/10 — A code model with generation, completion, fill-in-the-middle, and tests, available via the platform and integrations with released weights and a demo console. docs.mistral.ai
- Significance & novelty 6.5/10 — The record frames it as a key European coding-model release with integrations across developer tooling — Mistral's first code model. mistral.ai
- Traction signals not scored — insufficient sourced evidence
- Offer clarity 6.0/10 — Available through the Mistral platform and integrations; weights released under specific non-production license terms for the 2024 model. mistral.ai
Evidence checked 2026-07-11
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Kingy AI Take
Mistral introduced Codestral in May 2024 for code generation, completion, fill-in-the-middle and tests across many languages. Its model card now marks Codestral 24.05 (codestral-2405) as retired on June 16, 2025. This is a historical launch record, not a recommendation to use that retired API model. Its non-production weight license and launch-era free beta do not establish the licensing, availability or price of later Codestral versions.
Who it is for
Developers and AI coding tool builders who need a code-specialized model across many programming languages.
Traction notes
Key European coding-model release with integrations across developer tooling.
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