vs
1:10
overall capability wins (0 ties across 11 scored). Mistral Small 4 leads overall.
- Reasoning0:6
- Coding0:2
- Tool use1:0
- Composite indices0:2
- Pricing3:0
- Specs0:2
Verdict
Mistral Small 4 leads coding (widest gap: +15.4 on TermBench); Mistral Small 4 offers ~2.0x larger context (256K vs 128K); Mistral Small 4 allows ~2.0x more max output (64K vs 33K).
- Mistral Small 4 leads coding (widest gap: +15.4 on TermBench)
- Mistral Small 4 offers ~2.0x larger context (256K vs 128K)
- Mistral Small 4 allows ~2.0x more max output (64K vs 33K)
- Mistral Small 3.2 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 Small 3.2
- $0.17
- Mistral Small 4
- $0.30
Mistral Small 3.2 is about 1.7x 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
Jun 20, 2025
Mar 1, 2026
Knowledge cutoff
-
-
API / provider
Mistral
Mistral
Modalities
text, image → text
text, image → text
Specs
Context window
128K
256K
Max output
33K
64K
Parameters
24B
—
Pricing
Input $/1M
$0.10
$0.15
Output $/1M
$0.30
$0.60
Blended $/1M (3∶1)
$0.15
$0.26
Speed
tok/s
140
140
TTFT (s)
0.2
0.2
Reasoning
MMLU-Pro
69.1
—
GPQA Diamond
50.5
76.9
Humanity's Last Exam
4.3
9.9
AIME 2025
27.0
—
MATH-500
88.3
—
Humanity's Last Exam (with tools)
—
—
AA-Omniscience Accuracy
14.8
21.7
AA-LCR v1.1
20.3
49.7
CritPt
—
0.3
MMMU-Pro
48.0
56.8
IFBench
33.5
48.2
Chartography
—
—
Chartography (With Tools)
—
—
Coding
SWE-bench Verified
—
—
SWE-bench Pro
—
—
SWE-bench Multilingual
—
—
LiveCodeBench
27.5
—
Terminal-Bench 2.1
5.6
21.0
Aider Polyglot
—
—
Terminal-Bench 3
—
—
BigCodeBench
—
—
SciCode
28.6
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 Small 3.2 | Mistral Small 4 | Delta |
|---|---|---|---|
| Identity | |||
| Organization | Mistral | Mistral | — |
| Family | Mistral | Mistral | — |
| License | Apache 2.0 | Apache 2.0 | — |
| Open weights | Yes | Yes | — |
| Release | Jun 20, 2025 | Mar 1, 2026 | — |
| Knowledge cutoff | - | - | — |
| API / provider | Mistral | Mistral | — |
| Modalities | text, image → text | text, image → text | — |
| Specs | |||
| Context window | 128K | 256K | B +128K |
| Max output | 33K | 64K | B +31K |
| Parameters | 24B | — | — |
| Pricing | |||
| Input $/1M | $0.10 | $0.15 | A +$0.05 |
| Output $/1M | $0.30 | $0.60 | A +$0.30 |
| 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 | 69.1 | — | — |
| GPQA Diamond | 50.5 | 76.9 | B +26.4 pts |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 4.3 | 9.9 | B +5.6 pts |
| AIME 2025 | 27.0 | — | — |
| MATH-500 | 88.3 | — | — |
| Humanity's Last Exam (with tools) | — | — | — |
| AA-Omniscience Accuracy | 14.8 | 21.7 | B +6.9 pts |
| AA-LCR v1.1 | 20.3 | 49.7 | B +29.4 pts |
| CritPt | — | 0.3 | — |
| MMMU-Pro | 48.0 | 56.8 | B +8.8 pts |
| IFBench | 33.5 | 48.2 | B +14.7 pts |
| Chartography | — | — | — |
| Chartography (With Tools) | — | — | — |
| Coding | |||
| SWE-bench Verified | — | — | — |
| SWE-bench Pro | — | — | — |
| SWE-bench Multilingual | — | — | — |
| LiveCodeBench | 27.5 | — | — |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | 5.6 | 21.0 | B +15.4 pts |
| Aider Polyglot | — | — | — |
| Terminal-Bench 3 | — | — | — |
| BigCodeBench | — | — | — |
| SciCode | 28.6 | 38.8 | B +10.2 pts |
| CursorBench | — | — | — |
| SWE-Rebench | — | — | — |
| NL2Repo-Bench | — | — | — |
| DeepSWE | — | — | — |
| WebDev Arena | — | — | — |
| Terminal-Bench 4.0 | — | — | — |
| CursorBench 4.0 | — | — | — |
| FrontierCode v1.1 (Main) | — | — | — |
| Arena | |||
| LMArena Elo | — | — | — |
Mistral Small 3.2
- Context
- 128K / 33K out
- Parameters
- 24B
- Price
- $0.10 / $0.30
- Speed
- 140 tok/s · 0.2s TTFT
- Modalities
- text, image → text
- License
- Apache 2.0
Compact open Mistral instruct model for edge and low-cost API use.
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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