Overview
Codestral is Mistral AI's code-specialized model, trained on a vast corpus of programming languages. It excels at code completion, generation, debugging, and supports over 80 programming languages.
Parameters
22B
Context
32K tokens
Languages
80+ programming
Access
API + Azure
✅Strengths
- ✓Code-specialized training for accuracy
- ✓Supports 80+ programming languages
- ✓Fast code completion (low latency)
- ✓Fill-in-the-middle capability
- ✓Available via API and Azure
⚠️Weaknesses
- ✗Less capable for non-code tasks
- ✗Closed weights - API only
- ✗Smaller context than general models
- ✗May generate outdated patterns
Best Use Cases
💻 IDE Completion
Autocomplete, Copilot
🐛 Debugging
Error diagnosis
🔄 Refactoring
Code improvement
📝 Documentation
Comments, docs
🧪 Tests
Unit test generation
🎓 Learning
Code explanations
Benchmarks
HumanEval81.5%
MBPP85.2%
MultiPL-E78.9%