Migrating from codestral-2501 to codestral-2508
What changes when you move from codestral-2501 to codestral-2508: input price 0%, output price 0%.
- From
- codestral-2501
- Status
- Retired
- Shutdown
- Nov 30, 2025
- Time left
- —
- Status
- Active
- Shutdown
- none announced
- Time left
- —
Prices
USD per 1M tokens, standard tier| Type | codestral-2501 | codestral-2508 | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Input | $0.30first seen October 5, 2026 · source | $0.30first seen October 5, 2026 · source | 0% |
| Output | $0.90first seen October 5, 2026 · source | $0.90first seen October 5, 2026 · source | 0% |
At 1M input and 250K output tokens a month: $0.525 on codestral-2501, $0.525 on codestral-2508 (0%).
Other tiers, prompt-size bands and modalities are on each model's page.
Limits
Tokens| Limit | codestral-2501 | codestral-2508 | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Context window | 128,000 tokensin place when tracking began (October 6, 2026) · source | 128,000 tokensin place when tracking began (October 6, 2026) · source | 0% |
| Max output tokens | Not published | Not published | — |
Features and parameters
Compare modelsSame on both
- Structured outputs: supported on both.codestral-2501: in place when tracking began (October 6, 2026) · source · codestral-2508: in place when tracking began (October 6, 2026) · source
- Function calling: supported on both.codestral-2501: in place when tracking began (October 6, 2026) · source · codestral-2508: in place when tracking began (October 6, 2026) · source
- Batch API: supported on both.codestral-2501: in place when tracking began (October 6, 2026) · source · codestral-2508: in place when tracking began (October 6, 2026) · source
- PDF input: supported on both.codestral-2501: in place when tracking began (October 6, 2026) · source · codestral-2508: in place when tracking began (October 6, 2026) · source
Not published for codestral-2501: Prompt caching, Image input, Reasoning / thinking, Fine-tuning, Built-in web search, temperature parameter, top_p parameter, logprobs, Max output tokens.
Not published for codestral-2508: Prompt caching, Image input, Reasoning / thinking, Fine-tuning, Built-in web search, temperature parameter, top_p parameter, logprobs, Max output tokens.
Aliases
All aliasesNo aliases point at codestral-2501.
Aliases pointing at codestral-2508: codestral-latest (in place when tracking began (October 6, 2026) · source)
On cloud platforms
All platform dates| Model | Platform | Platform ID | Shutdown | Time left |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| codestral-2501 | Microsoft Foundryversion 2 | Codestral-2501 | none announcedActive |
Read daily from each platform's own pages. The status above uses each company's own date. Time left counts to 00:00 UTC on the shutdown date, which is the evening before in ET.
Checklist
- Change the model string from
codestral-2501tocodestral-2508.
Compared from AIWire's published data when this page loaded. Each fact links to the page it came from. Model pages: codestral-2501, codestral-2508.