Mistral: Codestral 2508 pricing
Mistral's cutting-edge language model for coding released end of July 2025. Codestral specializes in low-latency, high-frequency tasks such as fill-in-the-middle (FIM), code correction and test generation. Blog Post Mistral: Codestral 2508 from OpenRouter costs $0.300 per 1M input tokens and $0.900 per 1M output tokens. Cached input is $0.030 per 1M. Context window 256,000 tokens.
API id mistralai/codestral-2508 · OpenRouter · source · updated 2026-09-25 · general-purpose
$0.300
Input / 1M tokens
$0.900
Output / 1M tokens
$0.030
Cached input / 1M
256K
Context window
Mistral: Codestral 2508 specifications
- Provider
- OpenRouter
- API id
mistralai/codestral-2508- Model type
- general-purpose
- Context window
- 256K tokens
- Max output
- 205K tokens
- Currency
- USD
- Price source
- Provider API
- Last checked
- 2026-09-25
What Mistral: Codestral 2508 costs in practice
| Workload | Input tokens | Output tokens | Estimated cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Short chat turn | 1,000 | 500 | $0.0008 |
| Document summary | 50,000 | 2,000 | $0.02 |
| 1M tokens in, 200K out | 1,000,000 | 200,000 | $0.48 |
Estimates use the standard tier and ignore caching discounts, so real bills with repeated prompt prefixes are typically lower.
Common questions
- How much does Mistral: Codestral 2508 cost per 1M tokens?
- Mistral: Codestral 2508 costs $0.300 per 1M input tokens and $0.900 per 1M output tokens on the standard tier. Cached input is $0.030 per 1M.
- What is Mistral: Codestral 2508's context window?
- Mistral: Codestral 2508 accepts up to 256,000 tokens in a single request, and can return up to 204,800 output tokens.
- Is there a cheaper OpenRouter model than Mistral: Codestral 2508?
- Yes. MythoMax 13B is $0.080 per 1M input tokens versus $0.300 for Mistral: Codestral 2508, with a 8,192 token context window.
- Where does this Mistral: Codestral 2508 price come from?
- From the OpenRouter catalogue, because OpenRouter does not publish machine-readable pricing. OpenRouter is a reseller, so its rate can differ from OpenRouter's own — verify before committing spend.
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