Codestral 2508

codestral-2508

Codestral is Mistral's cutting-edge language model for coding, released in late July 2025. It is purpose-built for low-latency, high-frequency developer workflows, excelling at tasks such as fill-in-the-middle (FIM) code completion, code correction, and test generation. Optimized for responsiveness and precision, Codestral is well suited for real-time coding assistance, IDE integration, and automated development pipelines where speed and accuracy are critical.

Context: 256K tokens
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Pricing

Input$0.45 / 1M

Output$1.35 / 1M

Cache Write (5m)$0.45 / 1M

Cache Write (1h)$0.45 / 1M

Cache Read$0.45 / 1M

Web Search$0 / 1M

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python

from openai import OpenAI client = OpenAI(    api_key="YOUR_API_KEY",    base_url="https://api.apertis.ai/v1") response = client.chat.completions.create(    model="codestral-2508",    messages=[        {"role": "user", "content": "Hello!"}    ],    max_tokens=1024,    temperature=0.7) print(response.choices[0].message.content) # Optional: Enable context compression to reduce token usage# response = client.chat.completions.create(#     model="codestral-2508",#     messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Hello!"}],#     extra_body={"compression": {"enabled": True, "model": "gpt-4.1-mini"}}# )

Supported Parameters

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Common7 params

modelmessagesmax_tokenstemperaturetop_pstreamtools

Extended4 params

reasoning_effortstream_optionsthinkingextra_body

Cursor IDE Model IDs

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codestral-2508

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