Head-to-head comparison
Codestral 2508 (Mistral AI) and Mistral Nemo (Mistral AI) compared on the ModelCap Index, API price, context window, provider availability, weight access and every public benchmark board they share. Figures are the same ones shown on the live rankings; nothing here is a hidden score.
Snapshot as of 17 August 2026
As of 17 August 2026, Codestral 2508 holds the stronger ModelCap Index position (#226 vs #227); Mistral Nemo is 30× cheaper per output token ($0.03/1M vs $0.90/1M); Codestral 2508 offers the longer context window (256K vs 131K tokens); and Mistral Nemo ships open weights.
Evidence: publisher corpus prior · leave-one-anchor-out calibrated · publisher corpus prior · leave-one-anchor-out calibrated. Prices are the lowest listed API offer per million tokens observed on the OpenRouter catalogue.
Neither model has a published result on a public benchmark board ModelCap tracks yet.
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Codestral 2508 ranks higher on the ModelCap Index as of 17 August 2026: #226 against #227. That is a capability ranking built from public benchmark evidence with published uncertainty; whether it is "better" for you also depends on price, context and where you can run it.
Mistral Nemo is cheaper on output tokens: $0.03/1M against $0.90/1M. Input tokens are $0.30/1M for Codestral 2508 and $0.019/1M for Mistral Nemo. Prices are the lowest listed API offer ModelCap observed, in USD per million tokens.
Codestral 2508 has the larger context window: 256K tokens against 131K.
The two models do not share a coding benchmark board on ModelCap yet, so no head-to-head coding score is published; the ModelCap Index position is the closest overall signal.
Codestral 2508: API only. Mistral Nemo: Open weights. Open weights mean the checkpoint can be downloaded and self-hosted under its licence; API-only models are available solely through hosted endpoints.
ModelCap currently lists 1 API provider for Codestral 2508 and 4 for Mistral Nemo, from the OpenRouter catalogue snapshot the site serves; each model page lists the providers and their prices.
Every figure comes from the sealed ModelCap dataset published 17 August 2026; the page re-renders within a minute of each data refresh, and the ModelCap Index positions are the same ones shown on the live rankings.