AI Tool Profile

Codestral

Mistral AI introduced Codestral as its first code model, focused on code generation, completion, fill-in-the-middle, tests, and code interaction.

Company
Mistral AI
Primary category
AI Coding Tools
Best for
Developers and AI coding tool builders who need a code-specialized model across many programming languages.
Pricing
Available through Mistral platform and integrations; weights released under Mistral's specific non-production license terms for the 2024 model.
Free plan
yes
API
yes
Open source/open weight
yes
Linked launches
2
Latest launch date
January 13, 2025
Last verified
2026-06-08

Verification & Sources

Status
Verified profile
Source links
2
Freshness
Verified June 8, 2026
Last verified
June 8, 2026
Last updated
June 7, 2026

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What It Does

Mistral AI introduced Codestral as its first code model, focused on code generation, completion, fill-in-the-middle, tests, and code interaction.

Launch History

AI Coding Tools

Codestral 25.01

Mistral AI released Codestral 25.01 as an upgraded coding model with a more efficient architecture, improved tokenizer, and faster code generation and completion.

Free: Yes API: Yes Open: No
Clear use caseVideo demoBusiness-friendlyDeveloper-friendly
Kingy
10.0 / 10
Demo
7.5 / 10
YouTube
High

Important because coding assistants live or die on latency and autocomplete quality, not just benchmark claims.

AI Coding Tools

Codestral

Mistral AI introduced Codestral as its first code model, focused on code generation, completion, fill-in-the-middle, tests, and code interaction.

Free: Yes API: Yes Open: Yes
Clear use caseVideo demoBusiness-friendlyDeveloper-friendly
Kingy
10.0 / 10
Demo
7.5 / 10
YouTube
High

Worth tracking because code-specialized models became central to the AI developer tools market.