vs
0:5
overall capability wins (0 ties across 5 scored). Mistral Small 4 leads overall.
- Reasoning0:2
- Coding0:1
- Pricing0:3
- Speed0:2
- Specs0:2
Verdict
Mistral Small 4 leads coding (widest gap: +18.0 on SciCode); Mistral Small 4 offers ~7.8x larger context (256K vs 33K); Mistral Small 4 allows ~7.8x more max output (64K vs 8K).
- Mistral Small 4 leads coding (widest gap: +18.0 on SciCode)
- Mistral Small 4 offers ~7.8x larger context (256K vs 33K)
- 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 ~22.9x cheaper on a blended token basis than Mistral Large
Cost for 1M in + 250K out
Illustrative chat workload at primary-provider list prices.
- Mistral Large
- $7
- Mistral Small 4
- $0.30
Mistral Small 4 is about 23.3x 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
Feb 26, 2024
Mar 1, 2026
Knowledge cutoff
-
-
API / provider
Mistral
Mistral
Modalities
text → text
text, image → text
Specs
Context window
33K
256K
Max output
8K
64K
Parameters
—
—
Pricing
Input $/1M
$4
$0.15
Output $/1M
$12
$0.60
Blended $/1M (3∶1)
$6
$0.26
Speed
tok/s
55
140
TTFT (s)
0.55
0.2
Reasoning
MMLU-Pro
51.5
—
GPQA Diamond
35.1
76.9
Humanity's Last Exam
3.5
9.9
AIME 2025
—
—
MATH-500
52.7
—
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
17.8
—
Terminal-Bench 2.1
—
21.0
Aider Polyglot
—
—
Terminal-Bench 3
—
—
BigCodeBench
30.0
—
SciCode
20.8
38.8
CursorBench
—
—
SWE-Rebench
—
—
NL2Repo-Bench
—
—
DeepSWE
—
—
WebDev Arena
—
—
Terminal-Bench 4.0
—
—
CursorBench 4.0
—
—
FrontierCode v1.1 (Main)
—
—
Arena
LMArena Elo
1,242
—
| Metric | Mistral Large | Mistral Small 4 | Delta |
|---|---|---|---|
| Identity | |||
| Organization | Mistral | Mistral | — |
| Family | Mistral | Mistral | — |
| License | Proprietary | Apache 2.0 | — |
| Open weights | No | Yes | — |
| Release | Feb 26, 2024 | Mar 1, 2026 | — |
| Knowledge cutoff | - | - | — |
| API / provider | Mistral | Mistral | — |
| Modalities | text → text | text, image → text | — |
| Specs | |||
| Context window | 33K | 256K | B +223K |
| Max output | 8K | 64K | B +56K |
| Parameters | — | — | — |
| Pricing | |||
| Input $/1M | $4 | $0.15 | B +$3.85 |
| Output $/1M | $12 | $0.60 | B +$11.40 |
| Blended $/1M (3∶1) | $6 | $0.26 | B +$5.74 |
| Speed | |||
| tok/s | 55 | 140 | B +85 |
| TTFT (s) | 0.55 | 0.2 | B +0.35 |
| Reasoning | |||
| MMLU-Pro | 51.5 | — | — |
| GPQA Diamond | 35.1 | 76.9 | B +41.8 pts |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 3.5 | 9.9 | B +6.4 pts |
| AIME 2025 | — | — | — |
| MATH-500 | 52.7 | — | — |
| 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 | 17.8 | — | — |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | — | 21.0 | — |
| Aider Polyglot | — | — | — |
| Terminal-Bench 3 | — | — | — |
| BigCodeBench | 30.0 | — | — |
| SciCode | 20.8 | 38.8 | B +18.0 pts |
| CursorBench | — | — | — |
| SWE-Rebench | — | — | — |
| NL2Repo-Bench | — | — | — |
| DeepSWE | — | — | — |
| WebDev Arena | — | — | — |
| Terminal-Bench 4.0 | — | — | — |
| CursorBench 4.0 | — | — | — |
| FrontierCode v1.1 (Main) | — | — | — |
| Arena | |||
| LMArena Elo | 1,242 | — | — |
Mistral Large
- Context
- 33K / 8K out
- Parameters
- —
- Price
- $4 / $12
- Speed
- 55 tok/s · 0.55s TTFT
- Modalities
- text → text
- License
- Proprietary
First Mistral Large API SKU (mistral-large-2402) — 32K closed flagship before Large 2 / 3.
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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