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Codestral
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by Mistral
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RANKED #4 OF 8 CODE · OVERALL #153 OF 6,618 · VIBE SCORE 6.0 · 143 VOICES
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/ne
HAPPY9.2
32 mentions
SAD5.8
15 mentions
VIBE TRAJECTORY
26 weeks · 49 voices
AGING WELL
The crowd is warmer now than it was at the start.
HOW TO USE IT
Open weights. You can use a hosted service, or download it and run it yourself, free.
RUN IT ON YOUR OWN MACHINE
Open weights: download Codestral once and it's yours. No subscription, no rate limits, works offline.
22B parameters, a Q4 file is about 13 GB
- BARE MINIMUM
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16GB
16 GB VRAM
~$450 NEWQ4_K_M, ~22 tok/s, 8k context
- SWEET SPOT
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 24GB
24 GB VRAM
~$700 USEDQ5_K_M or Q6_K, ~35 tok/s, 32k context
- FULL POWER
Apple Mac Studio M2 Ultra (64GB)
64 GB UNIFIED RAM
~$3,200 USEDFP16 or Q8_0, ~45 tok/s, full 32k context
LEARN HOW TO SET IT UP
WILL MY BOX RUN CODESTRAL?
The three cards above are researched picks. Search the machine you actually have — we only say yes if it should reply at a usable speed, not just load the weights and crawl.
HARDWARE PICKS & PRICES ARE RESEARCHED FROM THE LIVE WEB AND REFRESHED AUTOMATICALLY. TREAT THEM AS BALLPARK, NOT GOSPEL.
WHAT CAN YOU ACTUALLY DO WITH IT?
Everyday jobs on each of those rigs: how long Codestral takes, and how good the crowd says it is at that kind of work.
| THE JOB | BARE MINIMUMNVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16GB | SWEET SPOTNVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 24GB | FULL POWERApple Mac Studio M2 Ultra (64GB) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Write an emaila paragraph or two, drafted from a one-line brief | ~23 S★★★★★ | ~14 S★★★★★ | ~11 S★★★★★ |
| Summarize a documenta long report boiled down to the points that matter | ~68 S★★★★★ | ~43 S★★★★★ | ~33 S★★★★★ |
| Build a websitea small landing page, markup and styles together | ~6.1 MIN★★★★★ | ~3.8 MIN★★★★★ | ~3 MIN★★★★★ |
| Build a backendan API with routes, storage and tests | ~19 MIN★★★★★ | ~12 MIN★★★★★ | ~9.3 MIN★★★★★ |
| Build a gamea playable browser game in one file | ~11 MIN★★★★★ | ~7.1 MIN★★★★★ | ~5.6 MIN★★★★★ |
STARS ARE THE COMMUNITY SCORE FOR THAT KIND OF WORK, DOCKED FOR HOW SQUASHED THE WEIGHTS GET AT EACH TIER. TIMES ARE COMPUTED FROM RESEARCHED SPEEDS. BALLPARK, NOT GOSPEL.
WHAT THE INTERNET SAYS
People are mostly happy with Codestral. Biggest praise: help with code.
108 POSTS · 35 COMMENTS · HACKER NEWS · REDDIT · LEMMY · GITHUB · DEV.TO · X
PEOPLE LOVE
- Popular for coding help (8 mentions)
- People feel it is worth the money (3 mentions)
PEOPLE COMPLAIN ABOUT
- No complaints yet. The internet is still looking for one. Suspicious.
TOPIC BY TOPIC
- Help with codePEOPLE LOVE THIS
8 thumbs up · 0 thumbs down
- PricePEOPLE LOVE THIS
3 thumbs up · 0 thumbs down
IN THEIR OWN WORDS
- FROM REDDIT >
“Codestral is so good at texting.”
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- REDDIT · 2025-07-30 · 189 UPVOTESAnnouncing Codestral 25.08 and the complete Mistral Coding Stack for Enterprises
Announcing Codestral 25.08 and the complete Mistral Coding Stack for Enterprises
- REDDIT · 2026-01-27 · 176 UPVOTESVibe 2.0 - Terminally online Mistral Vibe.
Vibe 2.0 - Terminally online Mistral Vibe.
- REDDIT · 2024-05-29 · 121 UPVOTESMistal AI: "Codestral: Hello, World!"
Mistal AI: "Codestral: Hello, World!"
- REDDIT · 2025-03-28 · 113 UPVOTESGetting really hard rationalize using LeChat
Getting really hard rationalize using LeChat
- REDDIT · 2024-09-05 · 110 UPVOTESComment in r/singularity
Comment in r/singularity
- REDDIT · 2026-02-27 · 89 UPVOTES[Vibe] PAYG Refund
[Vibe] PAYG Refund
- REDDIT · 2024-07-18 · 81 UPVOTESMistral releases Codestral Mamba, a Mamba2 language 7B parameter model specialised in code generation.
Mistral releases Codestral Mamba, a Mamba2 language 7B parameter model specialised in code generation.
- REDDIT · 2025-09-02 · 70 UPVOTESCodestral is so good at texting
Codestral is so good at texting
- REDDIT · 2026-02-08 · 63 UPVOTESIf you are using Mistral / LeChat for coding use an AI Studio Codestral Agent.
If you are using Mistral / LeChat for coding use an AI Studio Codestral Agent.
- X · 2026-08-16 · 52 UPVOTES$420 A MONTH ON AI. THEN $20. Same models Same quality Different path Claude Max, ChatGPT Pro, Cursor, Perplexity Most o
$420 A MONTH ON AI. THEN $20. Same models Same quality Different path Claude Max, ChatGPT Pro, Cursor, Perplexity Most o
- REDDIT · 2025-02-27 · 38 UPVOTESBest llm for coding!
Best llm for coding!
- REDDIT · 2026-01-02 · 30 UPVOTESWhich models to use instead of burning my premiums to opus?
Which models to use instead of burning my premiums to opus?