Side-by-side comparison of Codestral 22B (Mistral AI · France) and Phi-4 (Microsoft · USA) for self-hosted deployment of the open-weight model. Codestral 22B is rated conditional; Phi-4 is EU-ready. They part ways on licence: Codestral 22B is "MNPL (non-prod)", Phi-4 is "MIT".
| 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. | EU-ready MIT-licensed 14B from Microsoft Research. Heavy use of synthetic training data is disclosed; English-primary (thin multilingual coverage). Strongest small-model option for permissive-licence EU deployments. |
| Last reviewed | 2026-04-15 | 2026-04-15 |
| Open-weight | ||
| Licence | MNPL (non-prod) | MIT |
| Commercial use | Paid licence req. | Yes |
| Training data | Partial | Partial |
| Origin | EU | USA |
| Performance & pricing? | ||
| Quality index | — | 10/100 |
| Speed | — | 29 tok/s |
| Blended price | — | $0.22/M |
| Context window | — | — |
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