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.
Modalities
Input Price
$0.30/M
Output Price
$0.90/M
Context
256K
Weekly Tokens
587M
Released
Aug 1, 2025
Create an API key from your OpenRouter dashboard and set it as an environment variable:
Use mistralai/codestral-2508 with the OpenRouter API:
OpenRouter provides an OpenAI-compatible completion API to 400+ models & providers that you can call directly, or using the OpenAI SDK. Additionally, some third-party SDKs are available.
In the examples below, the OpenRouter-specific headers are optional. Setting them allows your app to appear on the OpenRouter leaderboards.
For information about using third-party SDKs and frameworks with OpenRouter, please see our frameworks documentation.
Add "stream": true to your request body to receive responses as server-sent events:
Sends a request for a model response for the given chat conversation. Supports both streaming and non-streaming modes.
https://openrouter.ai/api/v1/chat/completionsBearer $OPENROUTER_API_KEYapplication/jsonoptional — your site URL, for rankingsoptional — your site name, for rankingsmistralai/codestral-2508Creates a streaming or non-streaming response using the OpenAI Responses API format.
Docshttps://openrouter.ai/api/v1/responsesBearer $OPENROUTER_API_KEYapplication/jsonoptional — your site URL, for rankingsoptional — your site name, for rankingsmistralai/codestral-2508Creates a message using the Anthropic Messages API format. Supports text, images, PDFs, tools, and extended thinking.
Docshttps://openrouter.ai/api/v1/messagesBearer $OPENROUTER_API_KEYapplication/jsonoptional — your site URL, for rankingsoptional — your site name, for rankingsmistralai/codestral-2508| Name | Type | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
response_format | map | — | Forces the model to produce specific output format. |
max_tokens | integer | — | This sets the upper limit for the number of tokens the model can generate in response. |
temperature | float | 1 | This setting influences the variety in the model's responses. |
top_p | float | 1 | This setting limits the model's choices to a percentage of likely tokens: only the top tokens whose probabilities add up to P. |
stop | array | — | Stop generation immediately if the model encounter any token specified in the stop array. |
frequency_penalty | float | 0 | This setting aims to control the repetition of tokens based on how often they appear in the input. |
presence_penalty | float | 0 | Adjusts how often the model repeats specific tokens already used in the input. |
seed | integer | — | If specified, the inferencing will sample deterministically, such that repeated requests with the same seed and parameters should return the same result. |
tools | array | — | Tool calling parameter, following OpenAI's tool calling request shape. |
tool_choice | string or object | — | Controls which (if any) tool is called by the model. |