Codestral 7B on LiveCodeBench: score, rank and what it means
Codestral 7B scores 48.0 on LiveCodeBench, placing it #465 of 600 models in the index. The benchmark average is 61.0 and the leader is Claude Sonnet 4.5 Reasoning at 85.1.
Score distribution
The chart shows the top 10 models on LiveCodeBench, with Codestral 7B highlighted. Longer bars mean higher scores.
Top 10 leaderboard
| # | Model | Provider | Context | Input / 1M | Avg score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Claude Sonnet 4.5 Reasoning | Anthropic | 400000 | $19.48 | 87.7 |
| 2 | Grok 4 Reasoning | xAI | 2000000 | $19.67 | 87.8 |
| 3 | Claude Opus 4.5 | Anthropic | 400000 | $19.42 | 87.7 |
| 4 | GPT-5.2 Max | OpenAI | 1000000 | $21.39 | 89.2 |
| 5 | Grok 4 Turbo | xAI | 1000000 | $19.21 | 86.7 |
| 6 | GPT-5.1 Turbo | OpenAI | 2000000 | $19.19 | 86.1 |
| 7 | GPT-5.2 Pro | OpenAI | 2000000 | $21.32 | 89.6 |
| 8 | GPT-5.2 Reasoning | OpenAI | 1000000 | $20.98 | 87.5 |
| 9 | Claude Opus 4.5 Pro | Anthropic | 200000 | $20.98 | 89.1 |
| 10 | Gemini 3 Pro Max | Google DeepMind | 2000000 | $20.57 | 87.9 |
What this score means
On LiveCodeBench, Codestral 7B sits at #465 of 600. The leader, Claude Sonnet 4.5 Reasoning, scores 85.1, so the gap to the top is 37.1 points. The median model in this index scores 64.7, which puts Codestral 7B below the midpoint.
Mistral AI models average 58.1 on this benchmark. Codestral 7B is 10.1 points below that provider line, so it is a weaker result than the average Mistral AI model.
Among small open-weight models, the average is 41.2. Codestral 7B is 6.8 points above that group. This is the more useful comparison if you are shortlisting within the same tier rather than across the whole index.
Read a 48.0 as a relative signal, not an absolute guarantee. Benchmark scores depend on prompt format, evaluation harness and contamination controls. Use this page to narrow the shortlist, then test the model on your own data.
Price context
At $1.05 per million input tokens, Codestral 7B is below the median input price of $4.00 across the 600 models scored on LiveCodeBench. The models immediately around it in the ranking are shown below so you can compare score and price together.
| Model | Provider | Context | Input / 1M | Avg score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Llama 4 Maverick 7B | Meta AI | 4096 | $1.52 | 61.9 |
| DeepSeek-Coder 7B | DeepSeek | 32768 | $1.14 | 57.3 |
| Qwen3-Coder 7B | Alibaba Cloud | 32768 | $1.24 | 59.6 |
| Llama 3 Replicate 8B | Replicate | 32768 | $1.00 | 57.0 |
| Codestral 7B | Mistral AI | 32768 | $1.05 | 57.0 |
| DeepSeek-Coder 8B | DeepSeek | 32768 | $1.26 | 58.7 |
| Nemotron 4 7B | NVIDIA | 16384 | $1.05 | 56.9 |
Other benchmarks for Codestral 7B
| Benchmark | Score | Rank | Percentile | Relative |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MMLU-Pro | 60.2 | 526 | 12th | |
| GPQA Diamond | 54.0 | 480 | 20th | |
| SWE-bench Verified | 44.0 | 478 | 20th | |
| HumanEval | 62.3 | 465 | 23th | |
| MATH-500 | 57.0 | 497 | 17th | |
| AIME 2025 | 42.8 | 525 | 13th | |
| IFEval | 69.0 | 473 | 21th | |
| TruthfulQA | 61.0 | 519 | 14th | |
| HellaSwag | 73.9 | 457 | 24th | |
| MMMU | 55.1 | 495 | 18th | |
| Arena Elo | 1243.9 | 500 | 17th |
FAQ
What score does Codestral 7B get on LiveCodeBench?
Codestral 7B scores 48.0 on LiveCodeBench in this index. The benchmark average is 61.0 and the top score is 85.1.
How does Codestral 7B rank on LiveCodeBench?
It ranks #465 of 600 models, in the 23rd percentile. The leader is Claude Sonnet 4.5 Reasoning at 85.1.
Is Codestral 7B good at LiveCodeBench?
It is below the median for this benchmark, so test it carefully before relying on it for this capability. The result should be read alongside its price and context window.
How is the LiveCodeBench score calculated?
LiveCodeBench is a coding benchmark. Scores in this index are modelled estimates on a 0–100 scale (or Elo for Arena), derived from capability tier and benchmark difficulty. They are not official leaderboard results.
What does Codestral 7B cost?
Codestral 7B costs $1.05 per million input tokens and $5.23 per million output tokens.