This model is 18 months old. The same company has since released something newer: Timestral (2026-10-15). The details below are still accurate for this model. It just is not what we would recommend today.

Codestral Embed

Name: Codestral Embed
Price: 0.15 USD
Author: Mistral AI

Mistral AI🇫🇷 France

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Context window8K tokens

Input / 1M tokens$0.15

Pricing source: Mistral announcement, embedding model.

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2505majorJune 18, 2026

First release of Mistral's code-specialized embedding model with 8192 token context, flexible dimensions, and optimized performance on code retrieval benchmarks including SWE-Bench Lite.

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Mistral Releases Codestral Embed, Code-Specialized Embedding Model at $0.15 Per Million Tokens

Mistral AI has released Codestral Embed, its first code-specialized embedding model, priced at $0.15 per million tokens. The model features an 8192-token context window and claims to outperform Voyage Code 3, Cohere Embed v4.0, and OpenAI's large embedding model on code retrieval benchmarks.

June 18, 2026 · 8:40 AM2 min read

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