AI Model Profile
Codestral
Codestral is Mistral AI's coding-focused model line, listed in Mistral model documentation and context-window notes.
- Family
- Codestral
- Release date
- Unknown
- Status
- Current
- Context window
- 128k tokens
- Output limit
- Unknown
- API
- yes
- Open weights
- no
- Local/self-hosted
- no
- Pricing
- See official pricing or platform page; rates can vary by endpoint, region, tier, batch mode, and partner platform.
- Evidence state
- Recheck due
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Best for
Code completion, code assistants, software-engineering experiments, and Mistral-specific developer stacks.
Skip if
Skip if a general-purpose model has better results on your repo-specific evals.
Strengths
Mistral docs list Codestral with a 128k-token context window in known limitations.
Weaknesses
Coding quality should be tested against repository-specific tasks, tests, and security constraints.
Agent suitability
Useful for agent workflows when the provider supports tool use, long context, structured outputs, or workflow-specific APIs.
Kingy AI take
Use this as a source-backed shortlist candidate, not a universal ranking. Re-check official provider docs and run a task-specific trial before production adoption.
Verification & Sources
- Evidence state
- Recheck due
- Source links
- 3
- Freshness
- Needs recheck: checked June 24, 2026
- Last updated
- June 23, 2026
What this evidence state means
- Definition
- The claim was previously checked, but its review window expired or a material change may have invalidated it.
- Required provenance
- The prior evidence and check date are retained, together with the expiry or change signal that triggered recheck.
- Owner
- Kingy freshness queue owner and assigned editorial reviewer
- Freshness rule
- This is already outside its freshness rule. It must not be presented as current until reviewed against current evidence.
- Disputes and corrections
- Use “Suggest a correction” on the record. Kingy editorial reviews the cited evidence, records material corrections, and changes or removes the state when it is not supported.
Key source checks
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Full Model Notes
Codestral is Mistral AI’s coding-focused model line, listed in Mistral model documentation and context-window notes.
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Coding notes
Good candidate for code workflows, but compare against general frontier coding models on real tasks.
Reasoning notes
Provider capability notes are useful but should be validated on representative prompts and tools.
Creative notes
Use a small creative test set before standardizing outputs for brand, media, or customer-facing work.
Research notes
Track release notes and model lifecycle notices because availability and aliases can change.
API pricing notes
Check the official pricing page before budget decisions; Kingy does not freeze token, credit, or subscription prices in model cards.
License notes
Commercial/API terms apply unless the linked official source states otherwise.
Hardware requirements
Cloud/API model; local hardware requirements are not published as a self-hosted path.
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