Codestral 2508 API Pricing
Mistral · Budget · Apache 2.0 · released 2025-08. Prices in USD per 1 million tokens. Data snapshot: 2026-09-28.
Codestral 2508 has held the same list price since 2026-08-15 and is the 88th cheapest of 142 Budget models. Only one host, Mistral, sells it, so there is no second price to shop. No Arena score is published for it, so it carries no Efficiency score and cannot hold the FinOps Friendly badge.
- Input: $0.30 per 1M tokens
- Output: $0.90 per 1M tokens
- Batch API (input/output): $0.15 / $0.45
- Prompt-cache read: $0.03
- Context window: 256K
Codestral 2508 market position
On blended price ($0.720 per 1M tokens at 30% input, 70% output) it is cheaper than 38% of Budget models: 88th cheapest of 142, tied with one other. Across every category it is cheaper than 69% of priced text models in the catalogue: 88th cheapest of 281, tied with one other.
Codestral 2508 licence, size and capabilities
Codestral 2508 is open source: its weights are published under Apache 2.0, an OSI-approved licence with no field-of-use limit, so it can be self-hosted as well as bought by the token. Its parameter count is not published. Listed capabilities: Text, Code, Agents. Filling its 256K context window once costs $0.08 in input tokens at list price.
Monthly cost at 100K requests, by business use case
From the after-discounts figure (prompt caching on the cached input share, batch API for async workloads, only where the provider publishes those rates), which assumes you implement both, to the list price. One figure means no discount is published.
| Use case | Tokens (in/out) | Monthly (after discounts – list) |
|---|---|---|
| Support Ticket | 1,500 / 500 | $66 – $90 |
| Knowledge Q&A | 2,000 / 800 | $94 – $132 |
| Meeting Summary | 10,000 / 1,200 | $192 – $408 |
| Marketing Content | 2,500 / 1,800 | $224 – $237 |
| Coding Task | 3,000 / 2,000 | $230 – $270 |
| Invoice Processing | 1,500 / 600 | $44 – $99 |
| Call Summary | 2,000 / 700 | $59 – $123 |
| Agent Workflow | 6,000 / 3,000 | $337 – $450 |
Codestral 2508 pricing by host
A host is a company that runs the model and sells it by the token — the lab that made it, a cloud platform like Amazon Bedrock, Azure or Vertex, or an independent provider. One model, several sellers, and often several prices. This model is sold by 1 host. The price quoted above is the one we publish so that models stay comparable; it is not necessarily the cheapest way to buy this model. List prices as published on 2026-09-28 via OpenRouter — negotiated rates, committed-use discounts and provisioned capacity are not shown.
Mistral is the only host with a published rate, $0.30 input / $0.90 output per 1M tokens, which is the price shown on this page.
| Host | Input $/1M | Output $/1M |
|---|---|---|
| Mistral (the price shown above) | $0.30 | $0.90 |
Codestral 2508 price history
Codestral 2508 has been in our daily price archive since tracking began on 2026-08-15, when it listed at $0.30 input / $0.90 output per 1M tokens. No list price change since tracking began on 2026-08-15. Last checked against the 2026-09-28 snapshot.
Alternatives to Codestral 2508
- Next cheaper Budget model: Gemma 2 27B (Google) at $0.650 blended, 10% less.
- Next more expensive: MiMo-V2.5-Pro (Xiaomi) at $0.740 blended, 3% more.
Common questions about Codestral 2508 pricing
- How much does Codestral 2508 cost?
- Codestral 2508 costs $0.30 per million input tokens and $0.90 per million output tokens on the API.
- Does Codestral 2508 offer batch or cached pricing?
- Yes. Batch API pricing is $0.15/M input and $0.45/M output. Prompt-cache reads cost $0.03/M.
- What would Codestral 2508 cost per month?
- For a support-ticket workload (1,500 input + 500 output tokens per request) at 100K requests/month, Codestral 2508 costs about $90 at list prices.
- Has the price of Codestral 2508 changed?
- Codestral 2508 has been in our daily price archive since tracking began on 2026-08-15, when it listed at $0.30 input / $0.90 output per 1M tokens. No list price change since tracking began on 2026-08-15. Last checked against the 2026-09-28 snapshot.
These are list prices: real cost also depends on caching, batching, negotiated discounts, marketplace agreements, and existing contracts. Get a FinOps review from OptimNow or compare all models.
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