Side-by-side comparison of Codestral 22B (Mistral AI · France) and Command R+ (Cohere · Canada) for self-hosted deployment of the open-weight model. Codestral 22B is rated conditional; Command R+ is conditional. They part ways on licence: Codestral 22B is "MNPL (non-prod)", Command R+ is "CC-BY-NC 4.0".
| Field | ||
|---|---|---|
| Summary | ||
| Verdict | Conditional EU code model trained on 80+ languages. Licensed under Mistral Non-Production License — blocked for any production or commercial deployment without a paid commercial licence. Use Codestral Mamba (Apache 2.0) if you need commercial freedom. | Conditional Enterprise-focused 104B model, strong at RAG and multilingual tool use. Weights are released under CC-BY-NC 4.0 — non-commercial only. Commercial deployment goes through Cohere's API (see Cohere API entry). |
| Last reviewed | 2026-04-15 | 2026-04-15 |
| Open-weight | ||
| Licence | MNPL (non-prod) | CC-BY-NC 4.0 |
| Commercial use | Paid licence req. | API only |
| Training data | Partial | Partial |
| Origin | EU | Canada |
| Performance & pricing? | ||
| Quality index | — | 8/100 |
| Speed | — | — |
| Blended price | — | $6.00/M |
| Context window | — | — |
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