vs
0:7
overall capability wins (0 ties across 7 scored). Mistral Small 4 leads overall.
- Reasoning0:4
- Coding0:1
- Pricing0:3
- Speed0:2
- Specs0:2
Verdict
Mistral Small 4 leads coding (widest gap: +9.6 on SciCode); Mistral Small 4 offers ~2.0x larger context (256K vs 128K); Mistral Small 4 allows ~7.8x more max output (64K vs 8K).
- Mistral Small 4 leads coding (widest gap: +9.6 on SciCode)
- Mistral Small 4 offers ~2.0x larger context (256K vs 128K)
- Mistral Small 4 allows ~7.8x more max output (64K vs 8K)
- Mistral Small 4 ships open weights (Apache 2.0)
- Mistral Small 4 is ~11.4x cheaper on a blended token basis than Mistral Large 2
Cost for 1M in + 250K out
Illustrative chat workload at primary-provider list prices.
- Mistral Large 2
- $3.50
- Mistral Small 4
- $0.30
Mistral Small 4 is about 11.7x cheaper on this workload.
Price per 1M tokens
Full comparison
Organization
Mistral
Mistral
Family
Mistral
Mistral
License
Mistral Research / Proprietary API
Apache 2.0
Open weights
No
Yes
Release
Jul 24, 2024
Mar 1, 2026
Knowledge cutoff
-
-
API / provider
Mistral
Mistral
Modalities
text → text
text, image → text
Specs
Context window
128K
256K
Max output
8K
64K
Parameters
123B
—
Pricing
Input $/1M
$2
$0.15
Output $/1M
$6
$0.60
Blended $/1M (3∶1)
$3
$0.26
Speed
tok/s
65
140
TTFT (s)
0.45
0.2
Reasoning
MMLU-Pro
—
—
GPQA Diamond
48.6
76.9
Humanity's Last Exam
3.3
9.9
AIME 2025
—
—
MATH-500
—
—
Humanity's Last Exam (with tools)
—
—
AA-Omniscience Accuracy
19.9
21.7
AA-LCR v1.1
—
49.7
CritPt
—
0.3
MMMU-Pro
—
56.8
IFBench
31.2
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
29.2
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 | Mistral Large 2 | Mistral Small 4 | Delta |
|---|---|---|---|
| Identity | |||
| Organization | Mistral | Mistral | — |
| Family | Mistral | Mistral | — |
| License | Mistral Research / Proprietary API | Apache 2.0 | — |
| Open weights | No | Yes | — |
| Release | Jul 24, 2024 | Mar 1, 2026 | — |
| Knowledge cutoff | - | - | — |
| API / provider | Mistral | Mistral | — |
| Modalities | text → text | text, image → text | — |
| Specs | |||
| Context window | 128K | 256K | B +128K |
| Max output | 8K | 64K | B +56K |
| Parameters | 123B | — | — |
| Pricing | |||
| Input $/1M | $2 | $0.15 | B +$1.85 |
| Output $/1M | $6 | $0.60 | B +$5.40 |
| Blended $/1M (3∶1) | $3 | $0.26 | B +$2.74 |
| Speed | |||
| tok/s | 65 | 140 | B +75 |
| TTFT (s) | 0.45 | 0.2 | B +0.25 |
| Reasoning | |||
| MMLU-Pro | — | — | — |
| GPQA Diamond | 48.6 | 76.9 | B +28.3 pts |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 3.3 | 9.9 | B +6.6 pts |
| AIME 2025 | — | — | — |
| MATH-500 | — | — | — |
| Humanity's Last Exam (with tools) | — | — | — |
| AA-Omniscience Accuracy | 19.9 | 21.7 | B +1.8 pts |
| AA-LCR v1.1 | — | 49.7 | — |
| CritPt | — | 0.3 | — |
| MMMU-Pro | — | 56.8 | — |
| IFBench | 31.2 | 48.2 | B +17.0 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 | — | — | — |
| SciCode | 29.2 | 38.8 | B +9.6 pts |
| CursorBench | — | — | — |
| SWE-Rebench | — | — | — |
| NL2Repo-Bench | — | — | — |
| DeepSWE | — | — | — |
| WebDev Arena | — | — | — |
| Terminal-Bench 4.0 | — | — | — |
| CursorBench 4.0 | — | — | — |
| FrontierCode v1.1 (Main) | — | — | — |
| Arena | |||
| LMArena Elo | — | — | — |
Mistral Large 2
- Context
- 128K / 8K out
- Parameters
- 123B
- Price
- $2 / $6
- Speed
- 65 tok/s · 0.45s TTFT
- Modalities
- text → text
- License
- Mistral Research / Proprietary API
123B flagship before Large 3 — EU-hosted frontier option with strong multilingual coding.
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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