vs
2:7
overall capability wins (2 ties across 11 scored). Mistral Small 4 leads overall.
- Reasoning1:5
- Coding0:2
- Tool use1:0
- Composite indices0:2
- Pricing0:3
- Speed0:2
Verdict
Mistral Small 4 leads coding (widest gap: +9.0 on TermBench); Mistral Small 4 is ~11.4x cheaper on a blended token basis than Mistral Large 3.
- Mistral Small 4 leads coding (widest gap: +9.0 on TermBench)
- Mistral Small 4 is ~11.4x cheaper on a blended token basis than Mistral Large 3
Cost for 1M in + 250K out
Illustrative chat workload at primary-provider list prices.
- Mistral Large 3
- $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
Apache 2.0
Apache 2.0
Open weights
Yes
Yes
Release
Nov 19, 2025
Mar 1, 2026
Knowledge cutoff
-
-
API / provider
Mistral
Mistral
Modalities
text, image → text
text, image → text
Specs
Context window
256K
256K
Max output
64K
64K
Parameters
675B (41B act.)
—
Pricing
Input $/1M
$2
$0.15
Output $/1M
$6
$0.60
Blended $/1M (3∶1)
$3
$0.26
Speed
tok/s
70
140
TTFT (s)
0.45
0.2
Reasoning
MMLU-Pro
80.7
—
GPQA Diamond
68.0
76.9
Humanity's Last Exam
4.2
9.9
AIME 2025
38.0
—
MATH-500
—
—
Humanity's Last Exam (with tools)
—
—
AA-Omniscience Accuracy
25.0
21.7
AA-LCR v1.1
36.0
49.7
CritPt
—
0.3
MMMU-Pro
55.7
56.8
IFBench
36.2
48.2
Chartography
—
—
Chartography (With Tools)
—
—
Coding
SWE-bench Verified
—
—
SWE-bench Pro
—
—
SWE-bench Multilingual
—
—
LiveCodeBench
46.5
—
Terminal-Bench 2.1
12.0
21.0
Aider Polyglot
—
—
Terminal-Bench 3
—
—
BigCodeBench
—
—
SciCode
36.6
38.8
CursorBench
—
—
SWE-Rebench
—
—
NL2Repo-Bench
—
—
DeepSWE
—
—
WebDev Arena
1,230
—
Terminal-Bench 4.0
—
—
CursorBench 4.0
—
—
FrontierCode v1.1 (Main)
—
—
Arena
LMArena Elo
1,413
—
| Metric | Mistral Large 3 | Mistral Small 4 | Delta |
|---|---|---|---|
| Identity | |||
| Organization | Mistral | Mistral | — |
| Family | Mistral | Mistral | — |
| License | Apache 2.0 | Apache 2.0 | — |
| Open weights | Yes | Yes | — |
| Release | Nov 19, 2025 | Mar 1, 2026 | — |
| Knowledge cutoff | - | - | — |
| API / provider | Mistral | Mistral | — |
| Modalities | text, image → text | text, image → text | — |
| Specs | |||
| Context window | 256K | 256K | tie |
| Max output | 64K | 64K | tie |
| Parameters | 675B (41B act.) | — | — |
| 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 | 70 | 140 | B +70 |
| TTFT (s) | 0.45 | 0.2 | B +0.25 |
| Reasoning | |||
| MMLU-Pro | 80.7 | — | — |
| GPQA Diamond | 68.0 | 76.9 | B +8.9 pts |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 4.2 | 9.9 | B +5.7 pts |
| AIME 2025 | 38.0 | — | — |
| MATH-500 | — | — | — |
| Humanity's Last Exam (with tools) | — | — | — |
| AA-Omniscience Accuracy | 25.0 | 21.7 | A +3.3 pts |
| AA-LCR v1.1 | 36.0 | 49.7 | B +13.7 pts |
| CritPt | — | 0.3 | — |
| MMMU-Pro | 55.7 | 56.8 | B +1.1 pts |
| IFBench | 36.2 | 48.2 | B +12.0 pts |
| Chartography | — | — | — |
| Chartography (With Tools) | — | — | — |
| Coding | |||
| SWE-bench Verified | — | — | — |
| SWE-bench Pro | — | — | — |
| SWE-bench Multilingual | — | — | — |
| LiveCodeBench | 46.5 | — | — |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | 12.0 | 21.0 | B +9.0 pts |
| Aider Polyglot | — | — | — |
| Terminal-Bench 3 | — | — | — |
| BigCodeBench | — | — | — |
| SciCode | 36.6 | 38.8 | B +2.2 pts |
| CursorBench | — | — | — |
| SWE-Rebench | — | — | — |
| NL2Repo-Bench | — | — | — |
| DeepSWE | — | — | — |
| WebDev Arena | 1,230 | — | — |
| Terminal-Bench 4.0 | — | — | — |
| CursorBench 4.0 | — | — | — |
| FrontierCode v1.1 (Main) | — | — | — |
| Arena | |||
| LMArena Elo | 1,413 | — | — |
Mistral Large 3
- Context
- 256K / 64K out
- Parameters
- 675B (41B act.)
- Price
- $2 / $6
- Speed
- 70 tok/s · 0.45s TTFT
- Modalities
- text, image → text
- License
- Apache 2.0
Mistral's open Large 3 MoE - multilingual European frontier alternative under Apache 2.0.
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.
Benchmark charts
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