🇫🇷 France💻 CodeReleased January 2025
Codestral
Mistral AI
Open-sourceFreeSelf-hostRGPD
Verdict
A solid pick for self-hosting and full data control.
Overview
Codestral (22B) is trained specifically on code and supports 80+ languages. Native Fill-In-the-Middle (FIM) support makes it ideal for IDE autocompletion. Non-commercial license for raw weights, but commercial API available.
Skill profile
Arena Elo1240
Verified benchmarks
SWE-Bench35%
HumanEval81.1%
What do these scores mean?
SWE-Bench35%fair
Resolving real GitHub issues under real conditions (SWE-bench Verified).
HumanEval81.1%excellent
Python code generation from specifications.
Strengths
- Strong French quality
- Has a free tier
- Open-source and self-hostable
- Competitive input pricing
Limitations
- Light safety filters
Who is it for
A good fit if…
- you build with a coding agent
- you want to control cost or self-host
- you work in French
- you have GDPR constraints
Skip it if…
- you want strict guardrails
Ideal use cases
- IDE autocompletion
- Code generation
- Code review
- FIM (Fill-in-the-middle)
Access & availability
Paid API per tokenFree tier availableSelf-hostable (open weights)
Key specifications
Context
256K
Input price
$0.30 $/M
Output price
$0.90 $/M
Speed
130 tok/s
Price not auditedBenchmarks not audited
Estimate your monthly cost
Per-token API pricing$15/ month with Codestral
For the same usage
- DeepSeek Coder V3$6.19-60%
- Kimi K2.6$57+270%
Indicative estimate based on standard API rates (excluding caching, batch and volume discounts). Always check the official pricing before committing.
Privacy
GDPR-compliantHosting : EU/selfAnonymizable data
Run it locally
Desktop with solid GPU / 32GB+ Mac37k1k
| Quantization | Disk | RAM / VRAM | Typical hardware |
|---|---|---|---|
| Q4 · recommended | 12.7 GB | 16 GB | 32GB PC / 24GB Mac / RTX 4070 Ti+ |
| Q8 · balanced | 23.8 GB | 28 GB | 64GB Mac / dual 24GB GPUs |
| FP16 · max quality | 44.4 GB | 51 GB | 64GB Mac / dual 24GB GPUs |
Estimates for a moderate context. Long contexts need more RAM (KV cache).
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Advanced data · for experts
Architecture, modalities, detailed cost, full benchmarks
Architecture
Dense
Size
22B
Cutoff date
Jul 2024
Inputs
text
Outputs
code
License
mistral-non-commercial
Hosting
EU/self
Hallucination score
3/5
Estimated cost (API)
Typical exchange (~3k in / 1k out)
≈ $0.0018
1M in + 1M out
≈ $1.20
All benchmarks
| Arena Elo | 1240 |
| MMLU | — |
| GPQA | — |
| HumanEval | 81.1% |
| SWE-Bench | 35.0% |
| MATH | — |