Codestral vs LongCat-2.0
Side-by-side comparison of API pricing, specs, benchmarks, and capabilities
Codestral is 65.4% cheaper on blended cost ($0.450 vs $1.30/Mtok)
| Specification |
by Mistral
|
LongCat-2.0Intro price
by Meituan
|
|---|---|---|
| Overview | ||
| Status | Current coding | Current coding Open weights |
| Released | May 29, 2024 | Jun 30, 2026 |
| Pricing per million tokens | ||
| Input | $0.300/Mtok | $0.750/Mtok |
| Output | $0.900/Mtok | $2.95/Mtok |
| Blended avg | $0.450/Mtok | $1.30/Mtok |
| Cached input | — | $0.015/Mtok |
| Price basis | — | Limited-time intro promo: $0.30 in / $1.20 out per 1M (list price tracked). USD is first-party on longcat.ai (international edition); longcat.chat (China edition) prices independently in CNY (¥5/¥20 list, ¥2/¥8 promo) — not an FX conversion. |
| Specifications | ||
| Context window | 256K tokens | 262K tokens |
| Parameters | 22B | Proprietary |
| Speed (TPS) | — | — |
| Modalities | ||
| Input |
text
|
text
|
| Benchmarks sources: Mistral model card / Artificial Analysis, Meituan model card | ||
| GPQA Diamond | — | 88.9 vendor |
| SWE-Bench Verified | 38 vendor | — |
| HumanEval | 85 vendor | — |
| Independent composite scores each on its own scale — not part of the average above | ||
| AA Intelligence Index | — | 34 |
| AA Agentic Index | — | 22 |
| AA-Omniscience Index (−100–100) | — | -23.4 |
| Providers | ||
| Available from |
Mistral — $0.300/$0.900/Mtok
|
Meituan — $0.750/$2.95/Mtok
|
Cost at scale
1M tokens · 50/50 input/output| Volume | Codestral | LongCat-2.0 | Savings |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1M tokens | $0.45 | $1.3 | $0.85 (65.4%) |
| 10M tokens | $4.5 | $13 | $8.5 (65.4%) |
| 100M tokens | $45 | $130 | $85 (65.4%) |
| 1000M tokens | $450 | $1300 | $850 (65.4%) |
When to pick which
distilled from the pricing and spec data above
Pick Codestral if…
- cost dominates: $0.450/Mtok blended vs $1.30 — 65.4% less on the same 50/50 token mix
Pick LongCat-2.0 if…
- your workload re-reads context (agents, RAG, long chats): cached input costs $0.015/Mtok — 98% off its list input price, a discount Codestral doesn't offer
- you want open weights — self-host it, fine-tune it, or exit the API entirely; Codestral is closed
Try Codestral on Mistral
The cheaper option here — Codestral costs $0.450/Mtok blended on Mistral.
Summary
Codestral by Mistral costs $0.300/Mtok input and $0.900/Mtok output, with a 256K-token context window. It supports text input.
LongCat-2.0 by Meituan costs $0.750/Mtok input and $2.95/Mtok output, with a 262K-token context window. It supports text input.
On a blended cost basis, Codestral is 65.4% cheaper than LongCat-2.0.
Note: Pricing is per million tokens. Actual costs vary with usage patterns, prompt caching, and batch discounts. Always verify against official provider pricing pages.
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