Codestral 22B benchmarks, pricing and specs
Codestral 22B is a Mistral AI model released on May 29, 2024 that takes text input and produces text. It is now listed as a legacy model. Its price is not published and accepts up to 32,000 tokens of context.
- Context window
- 32K
Data verified August 6, 2026 · Dataset 2026-10-12
Key facts
- Provider
- Mistral AI
- Model family
- Codestral
- Release date
- May 29, 2024
- Status
- Legacy
- Access
- API and open weights
- API model id
- Not reported
- Context window
- 32,000 tokens
- Max output
- Not reported
- Input
- text
- Output
- text
- Task families
- text
- Declared capabilities
- reasoning
Codestral 22B pricing
Independent benchmark results
Scores come from independent evaluators that ran the model themselves, pinned to a dated snapshot. Rank is among current models in the same snapshot. Mistral AI's own launch figures are listed under strengths with the publisher named, because they are not measured the same way.
No independent benchmark has published a result for Codestral 22B yet. It is still compared below on price, context and capabilities.
Strengths, cautions and best uses
Strengths
- Codestral 22B records both API and open-weight access for text inputs and a published 32,000-token context window
Cautions
- This record is marked legacy; confirm current availability and migration requirements before adoption
Best for
- Code-generation trials with API or open-weight deployment
Alternatives to Codestral 22B
The closest current textmodels by price. The cheapest model that scores as well or better is listed first; failing that, the cheapest one within 3% of the benchmark's scale.
DeepSeek-R1
- 128K context window vs 32K
- From DeepSeek
Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct
- 128K context window vs 32K
- From Alibaba Qwen
Gemini 2.5 Pro
- 1.05M context window vs 32K
- From Google
Kimi-VL-A3B-Instruct
- 128K context window vs 32K
- From Moonshot Kimi
Codestral 22B FAQ
What is the context window of Codestral 22B?
Codestral 22B accepts up to 32,000 tokens of context. That ranks #45 of 45 current text models by context length.
Is Codestral 22B open source or API only?
Codestral 22B is available both through Mistral AI's API and as open weights you can run yourself.
What are the best alternatives to Codestral 22B?
The closest current alternatives by price and measured performance are DeepSeek-R1 (128K context window vs 32K), Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct (128K context window vs 32K), Gemini 2.5 Pro (1.05M context window vs 32K) and Kimi-VL-A3B-Instruct (128K context window vs 32K).
Sources
- Codestral · Mistral AI · official · verified August 6, 2026
- Mistral AI pricing · Mistral AI · official · verified August 6, 2026
Cite this page
Van Data Team. "Codestral 22B Benchmarks, Pricing and Specs." AI Model Benchmark Dataset 2026-10-12. https://vandatateam.com/ai-model-benchmarks/codestral-22b
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