Mistral AI Codestral

What Is Mistral AI Codestral?

Mistral AI Codestral is a coding assistant built by Mistral AI. It is a generative AI model designed for developers and accessed through an API endpoint: you provide instructions or partial code, and the model completes it.

Codestral is trained on over 80 programming languages, including Python, Java, C, and JavaScript. It is suited to completing functions, writing tests, and filling in partial code. The model has a 22B parameter size and a larger context window, which can improve accuracy in code generation tasks.

Who’s Behind It?

Codestral was founded by Mikhail Evtikhiev and is provided by Mistral AI as an open-weight generative AI model focused on code generation.

Who Can Benefit?

The tool serves a broad range of technical roles, including software developers, data scientists, web and mobile app developers, DevOps engineers, QA testers, and technical project managers.

Getting Started

Sign up on the Mistral AI platform to use Codestral directly, or access the instructed version via Le Chat for interactive coding.

Integration options include:

• Frameworks such as LlamaIndex and LangChain.
• IDE plugins like Continue.dev and Tabnine for VSCode and JetBrains.
• The dedicated codestral.mistral.ai endpoint, which supports Instruct and Fill-In-the-Middle routes.

For research and testing, the model can be downloaded from HuggingFace under the Mistral AI Non-Production License. Commercial licenses are available for production projects, and detailed integration instructions are provided in the Mistral AI documentation.