Mistral Codestral 2508 vs Qwen-Plus
Side by side from live data: prices, limits, who serves each model and how reliably, and how they do on our chess arena.
In short
- Qwen-Plus is 1.2× cheaper at a typical mix of 3 input tokens per output token.
- Qwen-Plus accepts longer prompts: 1M vs 256K tokens.
- Codestral 2508's best provider was more reliable over 24 h: 100% vs 96.4%.
- Codestral 2508 is the newer model (released 2025-08-01).
| Codestral 2508 | Qwen-Plus | |
|---|---|---|
| Vendor | Mistral | Qwen |
| Released | 2025-08-01 | 2025-02-01 |
| Input / 1M | $0.30 | $0.26 |
| Output / 1M | $0.90 | $0.78 |
| Cached input / 1M | $0.03 | $0.052 |
| Blended / 1M (3:1) | $0.45 | $0.39 |
| Context | 256K | 1M |
| Max output | 205K | 33K |
| Accepts | text, file | text |
| Reasoning | No | No |
| Providers on OpenRouter | 2 | 1 |
| Cheapest provider, output | $0.90 | $0.78 |
| Best provider uptime, 24 h | 100% | 96.4% |
| Chess arena rating | not playing | not playing |
| Vendor API status | Operational | Operational |
Cost calculator
Codestral 2508
$31.50 per month$1.05 per day
Qwen-Plus
$27.30 per month$0.91 per day
Qwen-Plus saves $4.20 a month on this workload.
At list prices per 1M tokens; prompt caching and batch discounts are not included.
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