DeepSeek V3 0324 vs Codestral 2508

DeepSeek V3 0324 at $0.310 in and $1.29 out and Codestral 2508 at $0.345 in and $1.03 out — per million tokens, from the same wallet.

DeepSeek V3 0324

DeepSeek

0.26¢

for a client proposal

$0.310 in · $1.29 out / 1M

164K context · released March 2025

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Codestral 2508

Mistral AI

0.26¢

for a client proposal

$0.345 in · $1.03 out / 1M

256K context · released August 2025

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Asking all both at once — identical prompt, identical context — costs about 0.51¢ for a typical client proposal.

At a glance

Cheapest input: DeepSeek V3 0324 at $0.310 per million tokens.
Cheapest output: Codestral 2508 at $1.03 per million tokens.
Largest context: Codestral 2508 at 256K tokens — about 370 pages.

Cost per task

Estimated totals at the rates above. Solid bar is input, lighter bar is output.

Quick code fix

2K in · 500 out

DeepSeek V3 0324

0.13¢

Codestral 2508

0.12¢

Draft a client proposal from notes

5K in · 800 out

DeepSeek V3 0324

0.26¢

Codestral 2508

0.26¢

Context-heavy session (Alyph workspace)

155K in · 4K out

DeepSeek V3 0324

$0.05

Codestral 2508

$0.06

Analyze a 50-page legal contract

35K in · 1K out

DeepSeek V3 0324

1.2¢

Codestral 2508

1.3¢

Large architecture refactor

250K in · 3K out

DeepSeek V3 0324

needs 250K ctx

Codestral 2508

$0.09

Solid part of each bar is input tokens, the lighter part is output. Models that don’t fit a task are marked instead of priced.

Cost vs Token Amount

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80% Input20% Output

DeepSeek V3 0324

Codestral 2508

Adjust the ratio slider to change how output tokens influence the final price for equivalent workloads.

Pricing

DeepSeek V3 0324

Codestral 2508

Input / 1M tokens

$0.310

$0.345

Output / 1M tokens

$1.29

$1.03

Cached input / 1M

$0.155

$0.035

Specs

DeepSeek V3 0324

Codestral 2508

Provider

DeepSeek

Mistral AI

Released

March 2025

August 2025

Context window

164K

256K

Max output

66K

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Input

Text

Text and Files

Output

Text

Reasoning

Answers directly

Knowledge cutoff

2024-07-31

2025-03-31

Try it with real numbers

2K tokens in · 500 tokens out.

DeepSeek V3 0324

DeepSeek

0.13¢

for this task

49% input · 51% output

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Codestral 2508

Mistral AI

0.12¢

for this task

57% input · 43% output

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All 2, same prompt and context: 0.25¢. That is the entire cost of the comparison.

Your $5 welcome credit covers about 2,022 of these.

Which should you pick?

For long documents, Codestral 2508 has the largest context window here — 256K tokens.

On price, Codestral 2508 is the cheapest of the two on a typical task, at about 0.26¢.

For images or files, Codestral 2508 can read them directly; DeepSeek V3 0324 is text-only.

Or don’t pick. Send the identical prompt to all both, read the answers side by side, and keep the winner. How to run a fair bake-off →

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Questions, answered

Which is cheaper, DeepSeek V3 0324 or Codestral 2508?

On a typical client proposal (5K tokens in, 800 out): Codestral 2508 at 0.26¢; DeepSeek V3 0324 at 0.26¢. Long prompts can change the order when long-context rates apply.

Which has the largest context window?

Codestral 2508 — 256K tokens, about 370 pages.

Can I run DeepSeek V3 0324 and Codestral 2508 side by side on Alyph?

Yes — that is what Alyph is built for: the identical prompt with identical context to all 2, answers rendered side by side, billed from one wallet. This exact combination costs about 0.51¢ for a typical task.

Ask both at once

Identical prompt, identical context, answers side by side — about 0.51¢ for a typical client proposal. Free to start, with $5 of credit.