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Codestral-22B vs Devstral Medium

Devstral Medium leads the LLM Stats Score 13.6 to 0.0.

Mistral AI · Mistral AI · Updated for 2026

Which is better?

Devstral Medium leads the overall LLM Stats Score 13.6 to 0.0, ranking #242 overall.

Based on current LLM Stats indexes, shared benchmarks, pricing, and model metadata for 2026.

Choose Codestral-22B

  • you need open weights you can self-host or fine-tune

Choose Devstral Medium

  • overall performance matters — it scores 13.6 and ranks #242 on LLM Stats
  • your work emphasizes reasoning — it leads those capability indexes
  • you want the most recent training data — it shipped Jul 2025

At a glance

The differences that matter most.

Codestral-22B
Mistral AI
Devstral Medium
Mistral AI
Core performance indexes
LLM Stats Score
0.0
#325
13.6
#242
Reasoning
-0.1
#317
13.5
#235
Coding
2.5
#224
5.3
#199
Cost, coverage & limits
Benchmark wins
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—
Input price
— / M
$0.40 / M
Output price
— / M
$2.00 / M
Context window
—
128,000

Individual benchmarks

7 reported for Codestral-22B · 1 for Devstral Medium

No common benchmarks found

Codestral-22B and Devstral Mediumdon't have any common benchmark datasets to compare. They may have been evaluated on different testing suites.

Human preference

Blind head-to-head votes and playground preference scores

Context Window

Maximum input and output token capacity

Only Devstral Medium specifies input context (128,000 tokens). Only Devstral Medium specifies output context (128,000 tokens).

Mistral AI
Codestral-22B
Input- tokens
Output- tokens
Mistral AI
Devstral Medium
Input128,000 tokens
Output128,000 tokens
Sun Sep 13 2026 • llm-stats.com

License

Usage and distribution terms

Codestral-22B is licensed under MNPL-0.1, while Devstral Medium uses a proprietary license.

License differences may affect how you can use these models in commercial or open-source projects.

Codestral-22B

MNPL-0.1

Open weights

Devstral Medium

Proprietary

Closed source

Release Timeline

When each model was launched

Codestral-22B was released on 2024-05-29, while Devstral Medium was released on 2025-07-10.

Devstral Medium is 14 months newer than Codestral-22B.

Codestral-22B

May 29, 2024

2.3 years ago

Devstral Medium

Jul 10, 2025

1.2 years ago

1.1yr newer

Knowledge Cutoff

When training data ends

Neither model specifies a knowledge cutoff date.

Unable to compare the recency of their training data.

No cutoff dates available

Outputs Comparison

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Judge for yourself.

Run your own prompts against Codestral-22B and Devstral Medium side-by-side, then vote on the output you prefer.

Codestral-22B
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Devstral Medium
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FAQ

Common questions about Codestral-22B vs Devstral Medium.

Which is better, Codestral-22B or Devstral Medium?

Devstral Medium leads the LLM Stats Score 13.6 to 0.0. Codestral-22B is made by Mistral AI and Devstral Medium is made by Mistral AI. The best choice depends on your use case — compare their capability indexes, individual benchmarks, pricing, and limits above.

How does Codestral-22B compare to Devstral Medium in benchmarks?

Codestral-22B scores HumanEvalFIM-Average: 91.6%, HumanEval: 81.1%, MBPP: 78.2%, Spider: 63.5%, HumanEval-Average: 61.5%. Devstral Medium scores SWE-Bench Verified: 61.6%.

What are the context window sizes for Codestral-22B and Devstral Medium?

Codestral-22B supports an unknown number of tokens and Devstral Medium supports 128K tokens. A larger context window lets you process longer documents, conversations, or codebases in a single request.

What are the main differences between Codestral-22B and Devstral Medium?

Key differences include LLM Stats Score (0.0 vs 13.6), licensing (MNPL-0.1 vs Proprietary). See the full comparison above for benchmark-by-benchmark results.

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