vs
0:0
overall capability wins (2 ties across 2 scored). Mistral Small 4 leads overall.
- Pricing0:3
- Speed0:2
Verdict
Mistral Small 4 ships open weights (Apache 2.0); Mistral Small 4 is ~1.7x cheaper on a blended token basis than Codestral 25.08.
- Mistral Small 4 ships open weights (Apache 2.0)
- Mistral Small 4 is ~1.7x cheaper on a blended token basis than Codestral 25.08
Cost for 1M in + 250K out
Illustrative chat workload at primary-provider list prices.
- Codestral 25.08
- $0.53
- Mistral Small 4
- $0.30
Mistral Small 4 is about 1.8x cheaper on this workload.
Price per 1M tokens
Full comparison
Organization
Mistral
Mistral
Family
Mistral
Mistral
License
Proprietary
Apache 2.0
Open weights
No
Yes
Release
Aug 1, 2025
Mar 1, 2026
Knowledge cutoff
-
-
API / provider
Mistral
Mistral
Modalities
text → text
text, image → text
Specs
Context window
256K
256K
Max output
64K
64K
Parameters
—
—
Pricing
Input $/1M
$0.30
$0.15
Output $/1M
$0.90
$0.60
Blended $/1M (3∶1)
$0.45
$0.26
Speed
tok/s
110
140
TTFT (s)
0.25
0.2
Reasoning
MMLU-Pro
—
—
GPQA Diamond
—
76.9
Humanity's Last Exam
—
9.9
AIME 2025
—
—
MATH-500
—
—
Humanity's Last Exam (with tools)
—
—
AA-Omniscience Accuracy
—
21.7
AA-LCR v1.1
—
49.7
CritPt
—
0.3
MMMU-Pro
—
56.8
IFBench
—
48.2
Chartography
—
—
Chartography (With Tools)
—
—
Coding
SWE-bench Verified
—
—
SWE-bench Pro
—
—
SWE-bench Multilingual
—
—
LiveCodeBench
—
—
Terminal-Bench 2.1
—
21.0
Aider Polyglot
—
—
Terminal-Bench 3
—
—
BigCodeBench
—
—
SciCode
—
38.8
CursorBench
—
—
SWE-Rebench
—
—
NL2Repo-Bench
—
—
DeepSWE
—
—
WebDev Arena
—
—
Terminal-Bench 4.0
—
—
CursorBench 4.0
—
—
FrontierCode v1.1 (Main)
—
—
Arena
LMArena Elo
—
—
| Metric | Codestral 25.08 | Mistral Small 4 | Delta |
|---|---|---|---|
| Identity | |||
| Organization | Mistral | Mistral | — |
| Family | Mistral | Mistral | — |
| License | Proprietary | Apache 2.0 | — |
| Open weights | No | Yes | — |
| Release | Aug 1, 2025 | Mar 1, 2026 | — |
| Knowledge cutoff | - | - | — |
| API / provider | Mistral | Mistral | — |
| Modalities | text → text | text, image → text | — |
| Specs | |||
| Context window | 256K | 256K | tie |
| Max output | 64K | 64K | tie |
| Parameters | — | — | — |
| Pricing | |||
| Input $/1M | $0.30 | $0.15 | B +$0.15 |
| Output $/1M | $0.90 | $0.60 | B +$0.30 |
| Blended $/1M (3∶1) | $0.45 | $0.26 | B +$0.19 |
| Speed | |||
| tok/s | 110 | 140 | B +30 |
| TTFT (s) | 0.25 | 0.2 | B +0.05 |
| Reasoning | |||
| MMLU-Pro | — | — | — |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 76.9 | — |
| Humanity's Last Exam | — | 9.9 | — |
| AIME 2025 | — | — | — |
| MATH-500 | — | — | — |
| Humanity's Last Exam (with tools) | — | — | — |
| AA-Omniscience Accuracy | — | 21.7 | — |
| AA-LCR v1.1 | — | 49.7 | — |
| CritPt | — | 0.3 | — |
| MMMU-Pro | — | 56.8 | — |
| IFBench | — | 48.2 | — |
| Chartography | — | — | — |
| Chartography (With Tools) | — | — | — |
| Coding | |||
| SWE-bench Verified | — | — | — |
| SWE-bench Pro | — | — | — |
| SWE-bench Multilingual | — | — | — |
| LiveCodeBench | — | — | — |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | — | 21.0 | — |
| Aider Polyglot | — | — | — |
| Terminal-Bench 3 | — | — | — |
| BigCodeBench | — | — | — |
| SciCode | — | 38.8 | — |
| CursorBench | — | — | — |
| SWE-Rebench | — | — | — |
| NL2Repo-Bench | — | — | — |
| DeepSWE | — | — | — |
| WebDev Arena | — | — | — |
| Terminal-Bench 4.0 | — | — | — |
| CursorBench 4.0 | — | — | — |
| FrontierCode v1.1 (Main) | — | — | — |
| Arena | |||
| LMArena Elo | — | — | — |
Codestral 25.08
- Context
- 256K / 64K out
- Parameters
- —
- Price
- $0.30 / $0.90
- Speed
- 110 tok/s · 0.25s TTFT
- Modalities
- text → text
- License
- Proprietary
Mistral's code-specialized model for fill-in-the-middle and IDE completions.
Mistral Small 4
- Context
- 256K / 64K out
- Parameters
- —
- Price
- $0.15 / $0.60
- Speed
- 140 tok/s · 0.2s TTFT
- Modalities
- text, image → text
- License
- Apache 2.0
Hybrid instruct/reasoning/coding Small model under Apache 2.0 - Mistral's high-throughput production default.
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