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Cost per coding-agent request

Is Codestral or Devstral 2 cheaper for coding agents?

For coding agents, Devstral 2 costs 1.4x as much as Codestral per request ($0.0099 vs $0.0070 on our measured traffic), because Devstral 2 charges $2 per million output tokens against Codestral's $0.90.

List prices: Mistral API pricing, OpenRouter (vendor endpoint), checked 2026-10-13. Request costs: Standard Compute gateway data, 79,301 coding-agent requests from 75 users, Sep 13 to Oct 12, 2026. How we compute this

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Cost per coding-agent request, side by side

Cost at list priceCodestralDevstral 2
Prompt under 100K tokens50% of requests, 87% of input cached$0.0043$0.0062
Prompt of 100K to 272K39% of requests, 88% of input cached$0.011$0.015
Prompt over 272K tokens11% of requests, 86% of input cachedn/an/a
Average request$0.0070$0.0099
100 requests$0.70$0.99
Median session16 requests; a session ends after 10 idle minutes$0.084$0.12
A month of regular usemedian of 20 users active on 5+ days$8.91$12.53

Each logged request priced at the vendor’s list rates for its own token counts, including cache reads and any higher rate for long prompts. Average output: 698 tokens per request. Both models are priced on the requests up to 256K tokens that fit in both context windows; band shares above describe all requests.

What to watch for

They are built for different jobs: Codestral for autocomplete and quick edits, Devstral 2 for agent loops, so the cheaper one is not a drop-in swap. Both windows (256K and 262K) are smaller than about 12% of coding-agent requests. Devstral 2's price is Mistral's endpoint on OpenRouter, because Mistral's own price page does not list it.

FAQ

Is Codestral cheaper than Devstral 2 for coding agents?
Yes, at list prices. 100 average coding-agent requests cost $0.70 on Codestral and $0.99 on Devstral 2. A median 16-request session costs $0.084 vs $0.12. Measured on 79,301 real coding-agent requests (Sep 13 to Oct 12, 2026), counting only the requests up to 256K tokens that both can take.
How much does a month of Devstral 2 vs Codestral cost?
For the median regular user in our data (1,478 requests in 30 days), about $12.53 on Devstral 2 and $8.91 on Codestral at list price. Heavier users pay proportionally more.
Codestral vs Devstral 2: which is better for agents?
Codestral scores higher on output quality (3.4/10 vs 3.3/10), while Codestral is the cheaper option. Codestral is best for fast completions and lightweight code edits; Devstral 2 is best for coding agents that need a Mistral open-weight model. Live community votes on this page show what people actually prefer.
Can I switch between Codestral and Devstral 2 in the same agent?
Yes. Model-agnostic agents (Cline, Aider, OpenClaw, Hermes Agent, Kilo Code, OpenCode) let you swap models per task. Many people route hard tasks to the stronger model and routine work to the cheaper one.

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