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Best cheaper alternatives to Codestral

Looking for a cheaper or smarter replacement for Codestral by Mistral AI? We compared every LLM model with verifiable pricing on real input/output cost, context window, intelligence and modalities. 18 options are meaningfully cheaper.

Category: LLM Intelligence 50 128K context
Google
Gemini 1.5 Flash-8B85% CHEAPER
Google
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Meta
Llama 3.2 11B Vision88% CHEAPER
Meta
Better valueMore modalitiesSame category
Google
Gemini 1.5 Flash71% CHEAPER
Google
Better valueLarger contextMore modalitiesSame category
Google
Gemini 2.0 Flash61% CHEAPER
Google
Better valueSmarter (56 vs 50)Larger contextMore modalitiesSame category
Meta
Llama 3.1 8B88% CHEAPER
Meta
Better valueSame category
DeepSeek
DeepSeek-V3 (Chat)73% CHEAPER
DeepSeek
Better valueSmarter (63 vs 50)Same category
OpenAI
o331% CHEAPER
OpenAI
Better valueSmarter (78 vs 50)Larger contextMore modalitiesSame category
Alibaba Cloud
Qwen Turbo81% CHEAPER
Alibaba Cloud
Better valueSame category
Mistral AI
Ministral 3 8B67% CHEAPER
Mistral AI
Better valueMore modalitiesSame category
Together AI
Qwen3.5 9B75% CHEAPER
Together AI
Larger contextMore modalitiesSame category
OpenAI
o4 Mini30% CHEAPER
OpenAI
Better valueSmarter (70 vs 50)Larger contextMore modalitiesSame category
DeepSeek
DeepSeek-R1 (Reasoner)46% CHEAPER
DeepSeek
Better valueSmarter (73 vs 50)Same category
Mistral AI
Mistral Small67% CHEAPER
Mistral AI
Better valueSame category
OpenAI
o131% CHEAPER
OpenAI
Better valueSmarter (71 vs 50)Larger contextSame category
Google
Imagen 491% CHEAPER
Google
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Alibaba Cloud
Qwen Image Plus93% CHEAPER
Alibaba Cloud
Same category
Writer
Palmyra Vision99% CHEAPER
Writer
Same category
Groq
Llama 3.1 8B Instant 128k87% CHEAPER
Groq
Same category

Costs are normalised to a blended 1M-token workload (or per-unit price for non-token models) using each model's latest verified pricing. Models with pricing under review are excluded from recommendations.