# Codestral

8 Hacker News commenters recommended Codestral and 2 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 6 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** People recommend Codestral for coding autocomplete and generating git commit messages, and it has a free tier. Its conversation ability is weak, and some found it lackluster.

## Why people recommend it

- Strong coding autocomplete (3 comments): "Codestral is rediculously bad at conversation, but it's -for me- the best model around for "magic autocomplete"" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48277592)) "it's -for me- the best model around for "magic autocomplete"" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48277441)) "Codestral is pretty good for coding autocomplete" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48651892))

## What people warn about

- Weak at conversation (1 comments): "Codestral is rediculously bad at conversation, but it's -for me- the best model around for "magic autocomplete"" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48277592))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [Cursor Composer](https://hackerapproved.com/p/composer-2-5.md): 214 recommend
- [Qwen3-Coder](https://hackerapproved.com/p/qwen3-coder-next.md): 165 recommend
- [GPT-5.3-Codex](https://hackerapproved.com/p/gpt-5-3-codex.md): 135 recommend
- [Meta Muse Glimmer 30B](https://hackerapproved.com/p/meta-muse-glimmer.md): 70 recommend
- [GPT-5.2-Codex](https://hackerapproved.com/p/gpt-5-2-codex.md): 54 recommend

## Where to get it

- [Visit the official site](https://mistral.ai/news/codestral/)

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Codestral", https://hackerapproved.com/p/codestral/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).