Codestral Embed
Code-specialised embeddings for repo search and code RAG — worth the 50% premium over Mistral Embed only when you are indexing source code rather than prose.
Data checked 2026-09-06
Mistral AI
ga
codestral-embed-2505
- Context window
- 8K tokens in
- Max output
- —
- Input
- $0.15 per 1M tokens
- Output
- — per 1M tokens
- Cached input
- $0.01 per 1M tokens
- Released
- 2025-05-28
- Licence
- proprietary (Mistral Premier)
A What it is for
Output price is N/A (embeddings return vectors). Alias: codestral-embed.
B Capabilities
batch prompt-caching
| Input modalities | text |
|---|---|
| Output modalities | — |
| Batch discount | 50% off asynchronous requests |
C Others from Mistral AI
| Model | Context | Max out | In $/M | Out $/M | Blended | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Mistral Medium 3.5
mistral-medium-3-5
|
256K | — | $1.50 | $7.50 | $3.00 | ga open |
Mistral Large 3
mistral-large-2512
|
256K | — | $0.50 | $1.50 | $0.75 | ga open |
Mistral Small 4
mistral-small-2603
|
256K | — | $0.15 | $0.60 | $0.26 | ga open |
Ministral 3 14B
ministral-14b-2512
|
256K | — | $0.20 | $0.20 | $0.20 | ga open |
Ministral 3 8B
ministral-8b-2512
|
256K | — | $0.15 | $0.15 | $0.15 | ga open |
Ministral 3 3B
ministral-3b-2512
|
256K | — | $0.10 | $0.10 | $0.10 | ga open |
Z.ai GLM 5.2
zai-glm-5-2
|
1M | 128K | $1.40 | $4.40 | $2.15 | preview open |
Codestral
codestral-2508
|
128K | — | $0.30 | $0.90 | $0.45 | ga |
Leanstral 1.5
labs-leanstral-1-5
|
256K | 128K | $0.00 | $0.00 | $0.00 | preview open |
OCR 4.1
mistral-ocr-4-1
|
— | — | — | — | — | ga |
OCR 4.0
mistral-ocr-4-0
|
— | — | — | — | — | ga |
OCR 3
mistral-ocr-2512
|
— | — | — | — | — | ga |
D Verify before you commit
Model pricing changes without notice and this page is a snapshot. Confirm against the vendor's own page before you build a budget on it.
Source: docs.mistral.ai · checked 2026-09-06 · Mistral AI pricing · API docs