Beam 1.0 501B A23B vs Codestral (latest)
Prices checked
Beam 1.0 501B A23B takes 3 of 5 rounds against Codestral (latest). It is also the cheaper of the two to run, at $0.44 per million tokens against $0.45.
Beam 1.0 501B A23B
1M context · tool calling · open weights
$0.44/M tokensOpenRouter's own price · $0.21 per 1,000 pages
Mistral AICodestral (latest)
256k context · tool calling · open weights
$0.45/M tokensMistral AI's own price · $0.23 per 1,000 pages
Maker's price in (lower wins)
$0.25/M
$0.30/M
Maker's price out (lower wins)
$1/M
$0.90/M
Cheapest price (lower wins)
none below the maker
none below the maker
Maker's price, blended (lower wins)
$0.44/M
$0.45/M
Cost per 1,000 pages (lower wins)
$0.21
$0.23
Context
1M tokens
256k tokens
Open weights
yes
yes
Tool calling
yes
yes
Structured output
yes
yes
Reads images
no
no
Reasoning
yes
no
Released
5 Oct 2026
29 May 2024
Providers selling it
11
17
Price we measure against
OpenRouter
the maker's own
Trains on your prompts (no is better)
no provider to check
no provider to check
Providers selling both · 4
Kilo Gateway$0.44 / $0.45
Nous Portal$0.44 / $0.45
OpenRouter$0.44 / $0.45
Eden AI$0.60 / $0.49
Beam 1.0 501B A23B, then Codestral (latest), per million tokens.
Go further
Add a third or fourth model, or change the weighting, in the tool.
What moved this week
- Eden AI · 10% dearer · $0.33 / $0.99 $0.30 / $0.90
- Kilo Gateway · 3% dearer · $0.25 / $1 $0.24 / $0.98
- Nous Portal · 3% dearer · $0.25 / $1 $0.24 / $0.98
- OpenRouter · 8% cheaper · $0.25 / $1 $0.30 / $1
Frequently asked
- Which is cheaper, Beam 1.0 501B A23B or Codestral (latest)?
- Beam 1.0 501B A23B, at $0.44 per million tokens against $0.45 for Codestral (latest), blended 3 in : 1 out, read on 31 Oct 2026.
- Where is each one cheapest?
- Beam 1.0 501B A23B: nobody sells it below OpenRouter's own price with a stated reason, so $0.44 is the number to beat. Codestral (latest): nobody sells it below the maker's own price with a stated reason, so $0.45 is the number to beat.
- Can I buy both from one provider?
- Yes. 4 providers sell both: Kilo Gateway, Nous Portal, OpenRouter, Eden AI. The cheapest of them for the two together is Kilo Gateway.
- Which holds more context?
- Beam 1.0 501B A23B, at 1M tokens against 256k.
Prices exclude tax, read 31 Oct 2026 from each provider's own catalog. They are per M tokens, blended 3 in : 1 out, and a page is 600 tokens in and 60 out. Bars are scaled to the larger value in each row.
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