Code categories
#1201,010 Elo
38.5% win rate
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Mistral: Codestral 2508
Free allowance
Up to50requests / minute
via Mistral
- 50,000 tokens / minute
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
- Input
- text
- file
- Output
- text
Providers
Available through 3 free providers. Use the model ID and API settings below to connect.
Vercel AI Gateway
VAVercel AI Gateway
* The provider match may differ from this model. Check its docs for details.
Benchmarks
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Frequently asked questions
Free access, setup, and what to expect.
Mistral: Codestral 2508 is available with up to 50 requests / minute free through Mistral. Additional limits apply at the same time: 50,000 tokens / minute. Free allowances can change. Check the Mistral: Codestral 2508 provider limits before you start.
To use Mistral: Codestral 2508, choose one of the listed Mistral: Codestral 2508 API providers and follow the provider’s account and API-key setup guide. Copy the Mistral: Codestral 2508 model ID and connection settings for your chosen provider into your app or API client. Model IDs can differ between providers. API requests go directly to the provider; Free Models is a comparison site.
Mistral: Codestral 2508 accepts text and file as listed input formats. Listed output formats include text. Image or audio input support does not imply image or audio generation. Check the chosen provider’s Mistral: Codestral 2508 documentation for supported file types and request formats.
Mistral: Codestral 2508 has a listed context window of 256K tokens. Tokens are small pieces of content rather than a word count. Instructions, conversation history, and other inputs use context space, and the response also needs room. The maximum output length for Mistral: Codestral 2508 may be smaller than the context window and can vary by provider.
Mistral: Codestral 2508 has tool calling support listed; reasoning support isn’t listed. Reasoning enables additional processing for complex problems. Tool calling allows a model to request functions that your app executes. Check the chosen provider’s documentation for capability availability and setup.
Review the listed Mistral: Codestral 2508 benchmark results to compare performance on measured tasks. Compare scores within the same benchmark: coding indexes, Elo ratings, and win rates measure different things. The index comparison charts include only scored free models listed on Free Models. Evaluate Mistral: Codestral 2508 on examples from your own task alongside context size and provider limits.