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Mistral: Codestral 2508 API Pricing
Mistral: Codestral 2508 costs $0.300 per 1M input tokens and $0.900 per 1M output tokens (cache reads: $0.030). Context window: 256K. Prices verified 2026-08-23 Β· source
Input / 1M tokens
$0.300
Output / 1M tokens
$0.900
Context window
256K
Max output
β
What would Mistral: Codestral 2508 cost you per month?
| Workload | Requests/mo | Avg tokens (in/out) | Est. monthly cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Light chatbot | 10,000 | 800 / 400 | $6.00 |
| Coding agent | 5,000 | 8,000 / 2,000 | $21.00 |
| RAG pipeline | 30,000 | 4,000 / 500 | $49.50 |
| Doc summarizer | 2,000 | 20,000 / 1,000 | $13.80 |
Estimates use list prices without prompt caching. Caching can cut input cost by up to 90% on repeated context.
About Mistral: 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/codestral-25-08)
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