As of August 30, 2026, Codestral-22B is 60% cheaper per million tokens than Composer 2. Codestral-22B is $0.30 / $0.90 per million input/output tokens versus Composer 2 at $0.50 / $2.50. Sources: https://mistral.ai/technology/pricing and https://cursor.com/docs/models/cursor-composer-2
Sources: Mistral AI pricing (https://mistral.ai/technology/pricing); Cursor pricing (https://cursor.com/docs/models/cursor-composer-2)
Codestral-22B
Mistral
Input
$0.30
Output
$0.90
Composer 2
Cursor
Input
$0.50
Output
$2.50
Token pricing, specs, and benchmarks side by side
Codestral-22BComposer 2Verdict
Both models are closely matched on benchmarks. Codestral-22B has the pricing advantage, making it the better value unless Composer 2's specific capabilities are critical to your workflow.
As of August 30, 2026, Codestral-22B is 60% cheaper on blended LLM API pricing. Codestral-22B costs $0.30 per million input tokens and $0.90 per million output tokens ($1.20 blended 1M-in + 1M-out). Composer 2 costs $0.50 / $2.50 per million tokens ($3.00 blended). Sources: https://mistral.ai/technology/pricing and https://cursor.com/docs/models/cursor-composer-2. The cheapest LLM for your app still depends on how many output tokens you generate.
Codestral-22B Mistral API pricing is $0.30 input and $0.90 output per million tokens via Mistral AI. Composer 2 Cursor API pricing is $0.50 input and $2.50 output per million tokens via Cursor. Use those four numbers, not ChatGPT Plus or Claude Pro subscription prices, when you are comparing APIs.
Codestral-22B has a published HumanEval score of 81.1%. Composer 2 does not have that eval on this page yet.
Codestral-22B supports a 33K token context window, while Composer 2 supports 200K tokens. Composer 2 offers a larger context window. Filling a larger window bills more input tokens, so the cheaper-per-million model can still cost more on long documents.
Shared benchmark scores for Codestral-22B and Composer 2 are still limited. Check the comparison table for the evals each model has published. Check the comparison table for GPQA Diamond, SWE-bench, MMLU, HLE, and the other evals we track. Token price and benchmark score together are the usual LLM comparison, not either number alone.
Both Codestral-22B and Composer 2 are production API models. For cost-sensitive production traffic, Codestral-22B has better economics on the blended 1M-in + 1M-out scale. For maximum capability, weight the benchmark table for your domain. Many production stacks route cheap models for drafts and a frontier model for the hard turn, which is usually cheaper than sending everything to the expensive API.
Yes. Call Codestral-22B through Mistral AI and Composer 2 through Cursor with separate API keys, or through a gateway that already wraps both. Keep prompts in tokens, not characters, when you estimate the invoice. AnotherWrapper templates can swap providers without rewriting auth and billing.
List rates are the latest published Mistral API pricing and Cursor API pricing, quoted per million tokens. Official rate sheets: https://mistral.ai/technology/pricing and https://cursor.com/docs/models/cursor-composer-2. Prompt caching, batch APIs, and committed-use discounts can change the invoice. Benchmark scores are from official publications and independent evals, updated as new numbers land.
Codestral-22B supports up to an unspecified number of output tokens per request, while Composer 2 supports up to an unspecified number of output tokens. Output tokens are usually the expensive half of API pricing, so a higher max output cap is a capability, not a discount.
Neither Codestral-22B nor Composer 2 has published throughput data on this page yet. Throughput (tokens per second) and time-to-first-token are why two models with the same per-million-token price can still feel different in chat and agents.
Use the model pickers at the top of this LLM comparison. Search any model in the index and the URL updates. Open Codestral-22B or Composer 2 from the sidebar for the single-model API pricing page, or go back to the LLM pricing table to sort by cheapest blended cost.
This comparison covers API pricing, context window, throughput, and benchmark scores. Codestral-22B costs $0.30/M input and $0.90/M output via Mistral AI. Composer 2 costs $0.50/M input and $2.50/M output.
Rank both on the LLM leaderboard, SWE-bench, and Humanity's Last Exam.
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