# Codestral vs Pixtral Large

> Pixtral Large is the stronger model overall, scoring 31.7 to 30.1 on the Noometry Index. Codestral costs 6.7× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Pixtral Large's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/codestral-vs-pixtral-large
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 0

## Summary

- Codestral is cheaper at $0.30 / $0.90 per million input/output tokens, against $2 / $6 for Pixtral Large.
- Codestral accepts more context: 256K tokens versus 128K.

## Snapshot

| | Codestral | Pixtral Large |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Mistral AI | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 30.1 | 31.7 |
| Rank | 287 | 257 |
| Context | 256K | 128K |
| Input $/M | $0.30 | $2 |
| Output $/M | $0.90 | $6 |
| Weights | Open | Open |

## Coding

- Codestral: 26.9 (#316)
- Pixtral Large: —

| Benchmark | Codestral | Pixtral Large |
|---|---|---|
| Aider Polyglot | 11.1% | — |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 41.8% | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 52.5% | — |
| ALE-Bench | 137.78 | — |
| HumanEval+ | 73.8% | — |
| MBPP+ | 61.9% | — |

## Reasoning

- Codestral: 19.1 (#244)
- Pixtral Large: 20.9 (#208)

| Benchmark | Codestral | Pixtral Large |
|---|---|---|
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 32.5% | — |
| EnigmaEval | — | 0.8% |

## Multimodal

- Codestral: —
- Pixtral Large: 30.0 (#105)

| Benchmark | Codestral | Pixtral Large |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | — | 1089 |

## Writing & Preference

- Codestral: —
- Pixtral Large: 32.9 (#273)

| Benchmark | Codestral | Pixtral Large |
|---|---|---|
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 988 |

## FAQ

### Is Codestral better than Pixtral Large?

Pixtral Large is the stronger model overall, scoring 31.7 to 30.1 on the Noometry Index. Codestral costs 6.7× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Pixtral Large's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

### Which is cheaper, Codestral or Pixtral Large?

Codestral is cheaper. It lists at $0.30 per million input tokens and $0.90 per million output tokens; Pixtral Large lists at $2 and $6.

### Which has the bigger context window?

Codestral does, with 256K tokens against 128K.

### How many benchmarks do Codestral and Pixtral Large share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Codestral has 7 scored results on Noometry and Pixtral Large has 3.