MODEL PROFILE / EDITION 2026.09
Codestral 2508
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](https://mistral.ai/news/codestr
No ordinal score is published because comparable evidence is incomplete. No rank delta is shown because there is no prior numeric snapshot.
Best for
Catalogue discovery; compare availability, context, and public token pricing before benchmark review.
Price & access
$0.3 input / $0.9 output per 1M tokens on OpenRouter.
Evidence summary
Availability and price come from OpenRouter; normalized frontend and coding evidence has not yet been reviewed.
Edition status
Tracked. Tracked in the September 2026 baseline.
Strengths
- Current model catalogue entry with a public API identifier and pricing metadata.
Tradeoffs
- No normalized frontend-quality score has been assigned.
- Popularity and recency are not treated as quality evidence.
Linked evidence
Evidence source 1 ↗Evidence source 2 ↗Use the same published data, filters, and side-by-side metrics.