vs
0:5
overall capability wins (0 ties across 5 scored). Mistral Small 4 leads overall.
- Reasoning0:2
- Coding0:1
- Pricing0:2
- Speed0:2
- Specs0:2
Verdict
Mistral Small 4 leads coding (widest gap: +23.2 on SciCode); Mistral Small 4 offers ~2.0x larger context (256K vs 128K); Mistral Small 4 allows ~7.8x more max output (64K vs 8K).
- Mistral Small 4 leads coding (widest gap: +23.2 on SciCode)
- Mistral Small 4 offers ~2.0x larger context (256K vs 128K)
- Mistral Small 4 allows ~7.8x more max output (64K vs 8K)
- Mistral Small 4 ships open weights (Apache 2.0)
Cost for 1M in + 250K out
Illustrative chat workload at primary-provider list prices.
- Mistral Small
- $0.35
- Mistral Small 4
- $0.30
Mistral Small 4 is about 1.2x 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
Sep 17, 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
—
—
Pricing
Input $/1M
$0.20
$0.15
Output $/1M
$0.60
$0.60
Blended $/1M (3∶1)
$0.30
$0.26
Speed
tok/s
110
140
TTFT (s)
0.25
0.2
Reasoning
MMLU-Pro
52.9
—
GPQA Diamond
38.1
76.9
Humanity's Last Exam
4.3
9.9
AIME 2025
—
—
MATH-500
56.3
—
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
14.1
—
Terminal-Bench 2.1
—
21.0
Aider Polyglot
—
—
Terminal-Bench 3
—
—
BigCodeBench
—
—
SciCode
15.6
38.8
CursorBench
—
—
SWE-Rebench
—
—
NL2Repo-Bench
—
—
DeepSWE
—
—
WebDev Arena
—
—
Terminal-Bench 4.0
—
—
CursorBench 4.0
—
—
FrontierCode v1.1 (Main)
—
—
Arena
LMArena Elo
1,357
—
| Metric | Mistral Small | Mistral Small 4 | Delta |
|---|---|---|---|
| Identity | |||
| Organization | Mistral | Mistral | — |
| Family | Mistral | Mistral | — |
| License | Proprietary | Apache 2.0 | — |
| Open weights | No | Yes | — |
| Release | Sep 17, 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 | — | — | — |
| Pricing | |||
| Input $/1M | $0.20 | $0.15 | B +$0.05 |
| Output $/1M | $0.60 | $0.60 | tie |
| Blended $/1M (3∶1) | $0.30 | $0.26 | B +$0.04 |
| Speed | |||
| tok/s | 110 | 140 | B +30 |
| TTFT (s) | 0.25 | 0.2 | B +0.05 |
| Reasoning | |||
| MMLU-Pro | 52.9 | — | — |
| GPQA Diamond | 38.1 | 76.9 | B +38.8 pts |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 4.3 | 9.9 | B +5.6 pts |
| AIME 2025 | — | — | — |
| MATH-500 | 56.3 | — | — |
| 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 | 14.1 | — | — |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | — | 21.0 | — |
| Aider Polyglot | — | — | — |
| Terminal-Bench 3 | — | — | — |
| BigCodeBench | — | — | — |
| SciCode | 15.6 | 38.8 | B +23.2 pts |
| CursorBench | — | — | — |
| SWE-Rebench | — | — | — |
| NL2Repo-Bench | — | — | — |
| DeepSWE | — | — | — |
| WebDev Arena | — | — | — |
| Terminal-Bench 4.0 | — | — | — |
| CursorBench 4.0 | — | — | — |
| FrontierCode v1.1 (Main) | — | — | — |
| Arena | |||
| LMArena Elo | 1,357 | — | — |
Mistral Small
- Context
- 128K / 8K out
- Parameters
- —
- Price
- $0.20 / $0.60
- Speed
- 110 tok/s · 0.25s TTFT
- Modalities
- text → text
- License
- Proprietary
Cost-efficient Mistral Small (mistral-small-2409) — production chat and light agents before Small 3 / 4.
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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