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Codestral vs Qwen3-235B-A22B

Side-by-side API economics and benchmarks. Per-1M input and output rates, context window, and verified metrics.

Tale of the tape

Head-to-head specs pulled from each model profile.

Metric Codestral Qwen3-235B-A22B
Input cost / 1M $0.30 $0.70
Output cost / 1M $0.90 $2.80
Context window 128,000 tokens 32,768 tokens
MMLU score

Cost verdict

Enter monthly input and output volumes to see total cost savings.

Codestral

Input: 1M × $0.30 = $0.30
Output: 1M × $0.90 = $0.90
Total
$1.20

Qwen3-235B-A22B

Input: 1M × $0.70 = $0.70
Output: 1M × $2.80 = $2.80
Total
$3.50

Total cost savings

$2.30

Codestral saves $2.30 per month vs the other model at this volume.

Model routing savings

Uses this page's verified rates. Qwen3-235B-A22B is the premium route (higher combined per-1M cost); Codestral handles routine traffic.

Premium model

Qwen3-235B-A22B

$0.70 in · $2.80 out / 1M

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Economical model

Codestral

$0.30 in · $0.90 out / 1M

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All premium

Qwen3-235B-A22B

$175.00

100% of input and output on the premium route

Routed stack

80%Codestral

Qwen3-235B-A22B

$83.00

Routine slice
$48.00
Premium slice
$35.00

Monthly savings

$92.00

52.6% lower

Rates pulled from this page's model database entries (qwen3-235b-a22b, codestral) — same per-1M input/output figures as Tale of the tape. Production routing needs quality gates and monitoring.

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