vs
5:0
overall capability wins (0 ties across 5 scored). Mistral Small 4 leads overall.
- Reasoning2:0
- Coding1:0
- Pricing1:2
- Speed2:0
- Specs2:0
Verdict
Mistral Small 4 leads coding (widest gap: +36.0 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: +36.0 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)
Cost for 1M in + 250K out
Illustrative chat workload at primary-provider list prices.
- Mistral Small 4
- $0.30
- Mixtral 8x7B
- $0.30
Price per 1M tokens
Full comparison
Organization
Mistral
Mistral
Family
Mistral
Mistral
License
Apache 2.0
Apache 2.0
Open weights
Yes
Yes
Release
Mar 1, 2026
Dec 11, 2023
Knowledge cutoff
-
-
API / provider
Mistral
Together / Fireworks (ref.)
Modalities
text, image → text
text → text
Specs
Context window
256K
33K
Max output
64K
8K
Parameters
—
46.7B (12.9B act.)
Pricing
Input $/1M
$0.15
$0.24
Output $/1M
$0.60
$0.24
Blended $/1M (3∶1)
$0.26
$0.24
Speed
tok/s
140
90
TTFT (s)
0.2
0.3
Reasoning
MMLU-Pro
—
38.7
GPQA Diamond
76.9
29.2
Humanity's Last Exam
9.9
4.7
AIME 2025
—
—
MATH-500
—
29.9
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
—
6.6
Terminal-Bench 2.1
21.0
—
Aider Polyglot
—
—
Terminal-Bench 3
—
—
BigCodeBench
—
—
SciCode
38.8
2.8
CursorBench
—
—
SWE-Rebench
—
—
NL2Repo-Bench
—
—
DeepSWE
—
—
WebDev Arena
—
—
Terminal-Bench 4.0
—
—
CursorBench 4.0
—
—
FrontierCode v1.1 (Main)
—
—
Arena
LMArena Elo
—
1,197
| Metric | Mistral Small 4 | Mixtral 8x7B | Delta |
|---|---|---|---|
| Identity | |||
| Organization | Mistral | Mistral | — |
| Family | Mistral | Mistral | — |
| License | Apache 2.0 | Apache 2.0 | — |
| Open weights | Yes | Yes | — |
| Release | Mar 1, 2026 | Dec 11, 2023 | — |
| Knowledge cutoff | - | - | — |
| API / provider | Mistral | Together / Fireworks (ref.) | — |
| Modalities | text, image → text | text → text | — |
| Specs | |||
| Context window | 256K | 33K | A +223K |
| Max output | 64K | 8K | A +56K |
| Parameters | — | 46.7B (12.9B act.) | — |
| Pricing | |||
| Input $/1M | $0.15 | $0.24 | A +$0.09 |
| Output $/1M | $0.60 | $0.24 | B +$0.36 |
| Blended $/1M (3∶1) | $0.26 | $0.24 | B +$0.02 |
| Speed | |||
| tok/s | 140 | 90 | A +50 |
| TTFT (s) | 0.2 | 0.3 | A +0.10 |
| Reasoning | |||
| MMLU-Pro | — | 38.7 | — |
| GPQA Diamond | 76.9 | 29.2 | A +47.7 pts |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 9.9 | 4.7 | A +5.2 pts |
| AIME 2025 | — | — | — |
| MATH-500 | — | 29.9 | — |
| 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 | — | 6.6 | — |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | 21.0 | — | — |
| Aider Polyglot | — | — | — |
| Terminal-Bench 3 | — | — | — |
| BigCodeBench | — | — | — |
| SciCode | 38.8 | 2.8 | A +36.0 pts |
| CursorBench | — | — | — |
| SWE-Rebench | — | — | — |
| NL2Repo-Bench | — | — | — |
| DeepSWE | — | — | — |
| WebDev Arena | — | — | — |
| Terminal-Bench 4.0 | — | — | — |
| CursorBench 4.0 | — | — | — |
| FrontierCode v1.1 (Main) | — | — | — |
| Arena | |||
| LMArena Elo | — | 1,197 | — |
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.
Mixtral 8x7B
- Context
- 33K / 8K out
- Parameters
- 46.7B (12.9B act.)
- Price
- $0.24 / $0.24
- Speed
- 90 tok/s · 0.3s TTFT
- Modalities
- text → text
- License
- Apache 2.0
Breakout sparse MoE that made high-quality open chat practical on a single high-end GPU.
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