diff --git a/litellm/llms/mistral/chat/transformation.py b/litellm/llms/mistral/chat/transformation.py
index 236308ab7b5..abb81b11249 100644
--- a/litellm/llms/mistral/chat/transformation.py
+++ b/litellm/llms/mistral/chat/transformation.py
@@ -35,6 +35,7 @@ from litellm.router_utils.reasoning_effort_capability import (
 from litellm.secret_managers.main import get_secret_str
 from litellm.types.llms.mistral import (
     MistralCacheKeyParams,
+    MistralFilePart,
     MistralReasoningEffortParams,
     MistralRequestRouting,
     MistralThinkingBlock,
@@ -69,6 +70,7 @@ _NO_TOOL_CALL_TURN: Final[tuple[int, frozenset[str]]] = (-1, frozenset())
 _MISTRAL_REQUEST_ROUTING: Final = TypeAdapter(MistralRequestRouting)
 _MISTRAL_CACHE_KEY_PARAMS: Final = TypeAdapter(MistralCacheKeyParams)
 _MISTRAL_REASONING_EFFORT_PARAMS: Final = TypeAdapter(MistralReasoningEffortParams)
+_MISTRAL_FILE_PART: Final = TypeAdapter(MistralFilePart)
 
 
 def _reasoning_level_and_summary(reasoning_effort: object) -> tuple[object, object]:
@@ -438,24 +440,31 @@ class MistralConfig(OpenAIGPTConfig):
         messages = self._handle_message_with_file(messages)
         return messages
 
+    @staticmethod
+    def _with_mistral_file_id(block: Mapping[str, object]) -> Mapping[str, object]:
+        file_part: Final = block.get("file") if block.get("type") == "file" else None
+        file_id: Final = (
+            _MISTRAL_FILE_PART.validate_python(file_part).get("file_id") if isinstance(file_part, Mapping) else None
+        )
+        if not file_id:
+            return block
+        return {**{key: value for key, value in block.items() if key != "file"}, "file_id": file_id}
+
+    @classmethod
+    def _with_mistral_file_ids(cls, message: AllMessageValues) -> AllMessageValues:
+        content: Final = message.get("content")
+        if not isinstance(content, list):
+            return message
+        blocks: Final[tuple[Mapping[str, object], ...]] = tuple(content)
+        return cast(  # cast-ok: only file blocks change, to the file_id shape the Mistral API takes
+            AllMessageValues, {**message, "content": [cls._with_mistral_file_id(block) for block in blocks]}
+        )
+
     def _handle_message_with_file(self, messages: list[AllMessageValues]) -> list[AllMessageValues]:
         """
         Mistral API supports only 'file_id' in message content with type 'file'.
         """
-        for m in messages:
-            _content_block = m.get("content")
-            if _content_block and isinstance(_content_block, list):
-                if any(c.get("type") == "file" for c in _content_block):
-                    # If file content is present, we get file_id from 'file' attribute of content block
-                    # then replace 'file' with 'file_id' and assign the value of 'file_id' attribute to it.
-                    file_contents = [c for c in _content_block if c.get("type") == "file"]
-                    for file_content in file_contents:
-                        file_id = file_content.get("file", {}).get("file_id")
-                        if file_id:
-                            # Replace 'file' with 'file_id'
-                            file_content["file_id"] = file_id  # pyright: ignore[reportGeneralTypeIssues]  # legacy in-place rewrite of the block shape
-                            file_content.pop("file", None)
-        return messages
+        return [self._with_mistral_file_ids(m) for m in messages]
 
     def _add_reasoning_system_prompt_if_needed(
         self, messages: list[AllMessageValues], optional_params: dict
diff --git a/litellm/types/llms/mistral.py b/litellm/types/llms/mistral.py
index 4c0fd9c0aee..03e31af6ffc 100644
--- a/litellm/types/llms/mistral.py
+++ b/litellm/types/llms/mistral.py
@@ -37,3 +37,7 @@ class MistralCacheKeyParams(TypedDict, total=False):
 
 class MistralReasoningEffortParams(TypedDict, total=False):
     reasoning_effort: ReadOnly[object]
+
+
+class MistralFilePart(TypedDict, total=False):
+    file_id: ReadOnly[object]
diff --git a/tests/unit/llms/mistral/test_mistral_chat_transformation.py b/tests/unit/llms/mistral/test_mistral_chat_transformation.py
index b7f892e9ce5..3a78a28165c 100644
--- a/tests/unit/llms/mistral/test_mistral_chat_transformation.py
+++ b/tests/unit/llms/mistral/test_mistral_chat_transformation.py
@@ -1355,6 +1355,36 @@ async def test_prompt_cache_key_rejection_for_an_async_codestral_call_names_code
     assert not azure_route.called
 
 
+@pytest.mark.asyncio
+async def test_async_codestral_call_sends_an_uploaded_file_by_its_id(respx_mock: respx.MockRouter) -> None:
+    import litellm
+
+    codestral_api_base: Final = "https://codestral.mistral.ai/v1"
+    codestral_route: Final = respx_mock.post(f"{codestral_api_base}/chat/completions").mock(
+        return_value=_chat_completion_reply()
+    )
+
+    await litellm.acompletion(
+        model="codestral/codestral-latest",
+        messages=[
+            {
+                "role": "user",
+                "content": [
+                    {"type": "text", "text": "Review this file"},
+                    {"type": "file", "file": {"file_id": "file-12345"}},
+                ],
+            }
+        ],
+        api_base=codestral_api_base,
+        api_key="codestral-key",
+        max_retries=0,
+        client=AsyncOpenAI(api_key="codestral-key", base_url=codestral_api_base, http_client=httpx.AsyncClient()),
+    )
+
+    sent_content: Final = json.loads(codestral_route.calls.last.request.content)["messages"][0]["content"]
+    assert sent_content[1] == {"type": "file", "file_id": "file-12345"}
+
+
 def test_prompt_cache_key_rejection_for_a_sync_codestral_call_is_an_unsupported_params_error(
     respx_mock: respx.MockRouter,
 ) -> None: