Codestral is Mistral's dedicated coding model, optimized for code completion, generation, and understanding across a broad range of programming languages. It provides fast, accurate code suggestions that integrate seamlessly into development workflows.
With strong performance in both code generation and natural language understanding of technical concepts, Codestral serves as a versatile coding companion that can explain code, suggest improvements, and generate implementations from specifications.
Key Features
Broad programming language support for polyglot teams
Fast code completion with low-latency responses
Natural language to code translation
Code explanation and documentation generation
Fill-in-the-middle completion for IDE integration
Ideal Use Cases
IDE-integrated code completion and suggestion
Rapid prototyping from natural language descriptions
Code documentation and explanation for team knowledge sharing
Multi-language code translation and migration
Technical Specifications
| Context Window | 256K tokens |
| Modality | Text, Code → Text, Code |
| Provider | Mistral |
| Category | Code Generation |
| Fill-in-Middle | Supported |
| Latency | Optimized for completion |
API Usage
1 curl -X POST https://api.vincony.com/v1/chat/completions \ 2 -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" \ 3 -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ 4 -d '{ 5 "model": "mistral/codestral", 6 "messages": [ 7 { "role": "user", "content": "Hello, Codestral!" } 8 ] 9 }'
Replace YOUR_API_KEY with your Vincony API key. OpenAI-compatible endpoint — works with any OpenAI SDK.
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