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CodestralvsGPT-5 mini
Codestral and GPT-5 mini do not yet share a public benchmark, so quality cannot be compared apples-to-apples. Codestral is 1.9x cheaper per token. GPT-5 mini has the larger context window (400K tokens).
Benchmarks from cited public sources; pricing from official pages; status from official provider feeds.
Shared benchmarks
0
no overlap yet
Cheaper per token
Codestral
1.9x cheaper, input + output
Larger context
GPT-5 mini
400K tokens
Provider uptime (30d)
100% · 94.2446%
Mistral AI · OpenAI
Codestral
Mistral AI · released 2025-01-13
text
GPT-5 mini
OpenAI · released 2025-08-07
textvision
Quality
Benchmark matrix
0 shared · 1 only Codestral · 8 only GPT-5 mini| Benchmark | Codestral | GPT-5 mini | Δ | Edge |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reported by both · 0 | ||||
| No public benchmark is reported for both models yet. | ||||
| Only Codestral reports · 1 | ||||
| HumanEval | 86.6% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| Only GPT-5 mini reports · 8 | ||||
| SWE-bench Verified | not reported | 71% ↗ | — | — |
| GPQA Diamond | not reported | 81.6% ↗ | — | — |
| AIME 2025 | not reported | 87.5% ↗matharena ⚠ | — | — |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 v2 (Epoch AI run) | not reported | 12.2% ↗epoch | — | — |
| FrontierMath Tiers 1-3 v2 (Epoch AI run) | not reported | 46.7% ↗epoch | — | — |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 (Epoch AI run) | not reported | 86.7% ↗epoch | — | — |
| SimpleQA Verified | not reported | 21.6% ↗epoch | — | — |
| SWE-bench Verified (Epoch AI run) | not reported | 64.7% ↗epoch | — | — |
Scores tagged "epoch" or "matharena" are independent runs, used only where the lab has not published its own; ⚠ marks rows MathArena flags as released after the competition. Higher is better on every row. Δ is Codestral minus GPT-5 mini in the benchmark's own unit. "Not reported" means the lab has not published that figure; it is not a zero. ↗ opens the source.
Specs & pricing
Side by side
Official pricing pages and model cards| Spec | Codestral | GPT-5 mini | Edge |
|---|---|---|---|
| Context window | 256K tokens | 400K tokens | GPT-5 mini |
| Max output | — | 128K tokens | — |
| Input price / 1M | $0.3 ↗ | $0.25 ↗ | GPT-5 mini |
| Output price / 1M | $0.9 ↗ | $2 ↗ | Codestral |
| Cached input / 1M | $0.03 ↗ | $0.025 ↗ | GPT-5 mini |
| Input + output / 1M Lower is cheaper. List prices; batch, tool and regional fees excluded. | $1.2 | $2.25 | Codestral |
| Modalities | text | text · vision | GPT-5 mini |
| Released | 2025-01-13 | 2025-08-07 | — |
| Cited benchmark scores | 1 | 9 | — |
Reliability
Provider status
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