Codestral by Mistral AI

Free "Experiment" plan, no credit card. ~1B tokens/month. Prompts may be used to improve models.

Quickstart

Frequently asked

Is Codestral free?

Yes. Mistral AI offers it as Free API tier with these limits: ~1 RPS, 500K TPM. No credit card is required.

Can I use Codestral commercially?

Commercial terms are not clearly documented. Check the provider's current terms before shipping.

How do I start using Codestral?

Free "Experiment" plan, no credit card. ~1B tokens/month. Prompts may be used to improve models.

Building with this model?

We wire free-tier and open-weight models into production stacks: evals against your real inputs, failover, cost caps.

Free monthly update

The monthly free-models update

What is newly free, what got rate-limited, and what to switch to. One email a month. Unsubscribe anytime.

Related free models

• Kimi K2.6 (Ollama Cloud) · Free tier
• GLM 4.6 (Z.ai) · Self-host free
• DeepSeek V3-0324 (DeepSeek) · Self-host free
• Qwen3.7 Max (Qwen) · Free tier
• Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview (Google AI Studio) · Free tier
• Mistral Medium 3.5 (Mistral) · Free tier