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| Attribute | Codestral 2508codestral-2508 | Claude Fable 5.2claude-fable-5.2 | Gemini 4 Argongemini-4-argon |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pricing | |||
| Input | $0.45 / 1M | $8.00 / 1M | $2.00 / 1M |
| Output | $1.35 / 1M | $40.00 / 1M | $10.00 / 1M |
| Cache Write (5m) | $0.45 / 1M | $10.00 / 1M | $2.00 / 1M |
| Cache Write (1h) | $0.45 / 1M | $16.00 / 1M | $2.00 / 1M |
| Cache Read | $0.45 / 1M | $0.20 / 1M | $2.00 / 1M |
| Web Search | $0 / 1M | $0 / 1M | $0 / 1M |
| Context | |||
| Max context | 256K | 1M | 1M |
| Max output | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Capabilities | |||
| Vision | No | Yes | Yes |
| Function Calling | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| JSON Mode | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Streaming | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Catalogue | |||
| Provider | Mistral AI | Anthropic | |
| Category | chat | chat | chat |
| Charge type | Pay As You Go | Pay As You Go | Pay As You Go |
| Released | — | — | — |
| Description | |||
| Summary | Codestral is Mistral's cutting-edge language model for coding, released in late July 2025. It is purpose-built for low-latency, high-frequency developer workflows, excelling at tasks such as fill-in-the-middle (FIM) code completion, code correction, and test generation. Optimized for responsiveness and precision, Codestral is well suited for real-time coding assistance, IDE integration, and automated development pipelines where speed and accuracy are critical. | Claude Fable 5.2 is Anthropic's most capable model for advanced technical work and open-ended problem solving, delivering significant improvements in coding, reasoning, and vision over Fable 5.1. It excels at exceptionally complex tasks, including large-scale software migrations, electronic system design, and advanced scientific and mathematical research. With up to 30% faster output generation, clearer communication, and always-on adaptive extended thinking, Fable 5.2 supports configurable reasoning effort from low to max (default high), with thinking preserved across turns. Designed for frontier engineering, scientific discovery, and ambitious long-horizon agentic workflows, it complements Opus 5.5 as a specialized option for the most demanding technical challenges. | Gemini 4 Argon is Google's flagship reasoning model, built for complex software engineering, deep mathematical and scientific problem solving, and autonomous multi-step agents. Google trained it to keep context across long, multi-step tasks and to turn long documents mixing text, tables, charts and images into a single grounded output. It leads the Vals Index across finance, legal, coding and tax work, and supports long decode of up to 1M output tokens in a single response. |