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Codestral 22B

VS
xAI

Grok 4.3

✍️ Analysis by:the whichllmmodel Editorial Team|📅 Updated: June 2026

Decision Recommendation

⚖️ Editorial Verdict: In our analysis, Grok 4.3 is the premium intelligence choice, scoring 0.0% higher on coding benchmarks. However, this accuracy premium comes with a cost overhead: Codestral 22B is 3.5x cheaper to run. If you are building high-volume, simple chatbots or processing massive amounts of text where budget is critical, Codestral 22B offers excellent cost savings. For agentic reasoning, code refactoring, or complex logical tasks, the accuracy premium of Grok 4.3 fully justifies the cost.

Model Specs

Codestral 22B

Benchmarks & Scores

Coding (swe-bench-pro)
N/A
Reasoning (gpqa-diamond)
N/A

Cost & Performance

Cost (per 1M tokens)3.5x cheaper
$0.45Input: $0.30 | Output: $0.90
Context Window
32.77k tokens
Model Specs

Grok 4.3

Benchmarks & Scores

Coding (swe-bench-pro)
N/A
Reasoning (gpqa-diamond)Winner (+)
90.1%

Cost & Performance

Cost (per 1M tokens)
$1.56Input: $1.25 | Output: $2.50
Context WindowLarger
1M tokens

Frequently Asked Questions

Codestral 22B is cheaper than Grok 4.3. Codestral 22B has a blended cost of $0.45/1M tokens, which is about 3.5x cheaper than Grok 4.3 at $1.56/1M tokens.

Coding benchmark scores are not currently recorded for these models.

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