vs
0:6
overall capability wins (0 ties across 6 scored). Mistral Small 4 leads overall.
- Reasoning0:4
- Pricing3:0
- Speed2:0
- Specs0:2
Verdict
Mistral Small 4 edges reasoning & knowledge; Mistral Small 4 offers ~31.3x larger context (256K vs 8K); Mistral Small 4 allows ~7.8x more max output (64K vs 8K).
- Mistral Small 4 edges reasoning & knowledge
- Mistral Small 4 offers ~31.3x larger context (256K vs 8K)
- Mistral Small 4 allows ~7.8x more max output (64K vs 8K)
- Mistral 7B is ~4.4x cheaper on a blended token basis than Mistral Small 4
Cost for 1M in + 250K out
Illustrative chat workload at primary-provider list prices.
- Mistral 7B
- $0.07
- Mistral Small 4
- $0.30
Mistral 7B is about 4.0x cheaper on this workload.
Price per 1M tokens
Full comparison
Organization
Mistral
Mistral
Family
Mistral
Mistral
License
Apache 2.0
Apache 2.0
Open weights
Yes
Yes
Release
Sep 27, 2023
Mar 1, 2026
Knowledge cutoff
-
-
API / provider
Together / Fireworks (ref.)
Mistral
Modalities
text → text
text, image → text
Specs
Context window
8K
256K
Max output
8K
64K
Parameters
7B
—
Pricing
Input $/1M
$0.06
$0.15
Output $/1M
$0.06
$0.60
Blended $/1M (3∶1)
$0.06
$0.26
Speed
tok/s
180
140
TTFT (s)
0.15
0.2
Reasoning
MMLU-Pro
—
—
GPQA Diamond
17.7
76.9
Humanity's Last Exam
4.6
9.9
AIME 2025
—
—
MATH-500
—
—
Humanity's Last Exam (with tools)
—
—
AA-Omniscience Accuracy
9.0
21.7
AA-LCR v1.1
—
49.7
CritPt
—
0.3
MMMU-Pro
—
56.8
IFBench
19.9
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
19.5
—
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
1,110
—
| Metric | Mistral 7B | Mistral Small 4 | Delta |
|---|---|---|---|
| Identity | |||
| Organization | Mistral | Mistral | — |
| Family | Mistral | Mistral | — |
| License | Apache 2.0 | Apache 2.0 | — |
| Open weights | Yes | Yes | — |
| Release | Sep 27, 2023 | Mar 1, 2026 | — |
| Knowledge cutoff | - | - | — |
| API / provider | Together / Fireworks (ref.) | Mistral | — |
| Modalities | text → text | text, image → text | — |
| Specs | |||
| Context window | 8K | 256K | B +248K |
| Max output | 8K | 64K | B +56K |
| Parameters | 7B | — | — |
| Pricing | |||
| Input $/1M | $0.06 | $0.15 | A +$0.09 |
| Output $/1M | $0.06 | $0.60 | A +$0.54 |
| Blended $/1M (3∶1) | $0.06 | $0.26 | A +$0.20 |
| Speed | |||
| tok/s | 180 | 140 | A +40 |
| TTFT (s) | 0.15 | 0.2 | A +0.05 |
| Reasoning | |||
| MMLU-Pro | — | — | — |
| GPQA Diamond | 17.7 | 76.9 | B +59.2 pts |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 4.6 | 9.9 | B +5.3 pts |
| AIME 2025 | — | — | — |
| MATH-500 | — | — | — |
| Humanity's Last Exam (with tools) | — | — | — |
| AA-Omniscience Accuracy | 9.0 | 21.7 | B +12.7 pts |
| AA-LCR v1.1 | — | 49.7 | — |
| CritPt | — | 0.3 | — |
| MMMU-Pro | — | 56.8 | — |
| IFBench | 19.9 | 48.2 | B +28.3 pts |
| 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 | 19.5 | — | — |
| 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 | 1,110 | — | — |
Mistral 7B
- Context
- 8K / 8K out
- Parameters
- 7B
- Price
- $0.06 / $0.06
- Speed
- 180 tok/s · 0.15s TTFT
- Modalities
- text → text
- License
- Apache 2.0
The 7B that put Mistral on the map — still a default fine-tune and local-chat base.
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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