Processing 500 lines of code (~4,900 tokens) with Mistral Small 4 costs $0.000735 for codebase ingestion and $0.001323 for an AI-powered code review and refactoring pass.
Feed 500 lines of code into the prompt context for repository search, Q&A, or architecture planning.
Ingest 500 lines of code and generate audit findings, unit test recommendations, and refactor diffs.
Mistral Small 4 writes 500 lines of code from scratch based on product specifications.
| Model | Provider | Code Ingestion | Cached Ingestion | Code Review Cost | Context Limit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mistral Small 4 (Current) | mistral | $0.000735 | $0.000073 | $0.001323 | 128,000 |
| GPT-5.6 Luna | openai | $0.00102 | $0.000102 | $0.002244 | 1,050,000 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | openai | $0.003825 | $0.000383 | $0.008415 | 256,000 |
| GPT-5.4 nano | openai | $0.00102 | $0.000102 | $0.002295 | 128,000 |
| GPT-4o mini | openai | $0.000765 | $0.000383 | $0.001377 | 128,000 |
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | anthropic | $0.0056 | $0.00056 | $0.0112 | 1,000,000 |
On average, code yields approximately 9.8 tokens per line in Mistral Small 4 (mistral_bpe tokenizer). Indentation, brackets, camelCase variable names, and comments slightly increase token density compared to plain English text. 500 lines of code produces approximately 4,900 tokens.
Sending 500 lines of code as context and generating a thorough code review with recommendations costs approximately $0.001323. Utilizing prompt caching on repeat turns or static repository definitions drops this to $0.000662.
Mistral Small 4 has a context window of 128,000 tokens. 500 lines of code consumes 3.83% of its total available context.