vs
0:2
overall capability wins (0 ties across 2 scored). Mistral Small 4 leads overall.
- Pricing2:0
- Specs0:2
Verdict
Mistral Small 4 offers ~2.0x larger context (256K vs 128K); Mistral Small 4 allows ~7.8x more max output (64K vs 8K); Mistral Nemo 12B is ~1.7x cheaper on a blended token basis than Mistral Small 4.
- Mistral Small 4 offers ~2.0x larger context (256K vs 128K)
- Mistral Small 4 allows ~7.8x more max output (64K vs 8K)
- Mistral Nemo 12B is ~1.7x 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 Nemo 12B
- $0.19
- Mistral Small 4
- $0.30
Mistral Nemo 12B is about 1.6x 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
Jul 18, 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
12B
—
Pricing
Input $/1M
$0.15
$0.15
Output $/1M
$0.15
$0.60
Blended $/1M (3∶1)
$0.15
$0.26
Speed
tok/s
140
140
TTFT (s)
0.2
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 | Mistral Nemo 12B | Mistral Small 4 | Delta |
|---|---|---|---|
| Identity | |||
| Organization | Mistral | Mistral | — |
| Family | Mistral | Mistral | — |
| License | Apache 2.0 | Apache 2.0 | — |
| Open weights | Yes | Yes | — |
| Release | Jul 18, 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 | 12B | — | — |
| Pricing | |||
| Input $/1M | $0.15 | $0.15 | tie |
| Output $/1M | $0.15 | $0.60 | A +$0.45 |
| Blended $/1M (3∶1) | $0.15 | $0.26 | A +$0.11 |
| Speed | |||
| tok/s | 140 | 140 | tie |
| TTFT (s) | 0.2 | 0.2 | tie |
| 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 | — | — | — |
Mistral Nemo 12B
- Context
- 128K / 8K out
- Parameters
- 12B
- Price
- $0.15 / $0.15
- Speed
- 140 tok/s · 0.2s TTFT
- Modalities
- text → text
- License
- Apache 2.0
Compact open Mistral x NVIDIA collab model - popular edge and multilingual baseline.
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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