At 8 requests/user/day (totaling 120,000 queries/mo), running Agentic workflow on Codestral 2501 costs $759.60 / month ($1.519 / user / mo).
Agentic workflow for a 500 active users (early growth) audience means 4,000 requests per day on average, each carrying 40,000 input and 1,500 output tokens at a 65% cacheable share — so the effective per-request cost on Codestral 2501 is $0.00633, of which $842.40/mo comes back from prompt caching. Per active user that's $1.519/mo — the number to hold against your pricing tier and gross margin. Charging at least $7.596/user/mo keeps gross margin at or above 80%.
Quick answer
For 500 Active Users, Agentic workflow on Codestral 2501 is modeled at 120,000 requests per month, costing $759.60 per month or $1.519 per active user.
Method & trust
This projection combines the selected active-user tier, requests per user per day, input/output tokens per request, and the modeled cache share. It is an operating estimate, not a provider invoice; production traffic and retries should be measured against it.
Total expected API invoice for 500 Active Users generating 120,000 queries.
Direct inference cost per MAU to model your SaaS pricing tiers and gross margins.
Savings generated by exploiting 65% cache hits on prompt context.
| Model | Provider | Monthly Spend (500 Active Users) | Cost / User / Mo | Annual Spend | Context Limit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Codestral 2501 (Current) | mistral | $759.60 | $1.519 | $9,115.20 | 256,000 |
| GPT-5.3 Codex | openai | $6,006.00 | $12.012 | $72,072.00 | 256,000 |
| DeepSeek Coder V2.5 | deepseek | $329.28 | $0.6586 | $3,951.36 | 128,000 |
| Grok Build 0.1 | xai | $2,664.00 | $5.328 | $31,968.00 | 256,000 |
| Qwen 2.5 Coder 32B | qwen | $506.40 | $1.013 | $6,076.80 | 128,000 |
| GLM-5.3 (Z.ai) | zai | $3,955.20 | $7.91 | $47,462.40 | 1,048,576 |
At 8 queries per user/day with Codestral 2501, the estimated cost is $1.519 per monthly active user (MAU). Total monthly bill for 500 Active Users is $759.60.
Assuming a 65% cache hit rate on repeated system and context tokens, prompt caching saves $842.40 per month ($10,108.80/year) on Codestral 2501.
With a direct COGS of $1.519 per user/month on Codestral 2501, charging at least $7.596 per user/month ensures an 80%+ software gross margin.