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Atria Dawn Preview vs Mistral Small

Comparing Atria Dawn Preview and Mistral Small across benchmarks, pricing, and capabilities.

Shanghai AI Laboratory · Mistral AI · Updated for 2026

Which is better?

Atria Dawn Preview and Mistral Small trade strengths across price, capabilities, and technical limits. The better choice depends on the workload.

Based on current LLM Stats indexes, shared benchmarks, pricing, and model metadata for 2026.

Choose Atria Dawn Preview

  • you want the most recent training data — it shipped Sep 2026

Choose Mistral Small

  • you want predictable pricing at $0.20/M input and $0.60/M output

At a glance

The differences that matter most.

Atria Dawn Preview
Shanghai AI Laboratory
Mistral Small
Mistral AI
Benchmark wins
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Input price
— / M
$0.20 / M
Output price
— / M
$0.60 / M
Context window
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32,768

Individual benchmarks

12 reported for Atria Dawn Preview · 0 for Mistral Small

No common benchmarks found

Atria Dawn Preview and Mistral Smalldon't have any common benchmark datasets to compare. They may have been evaluated on different testing suites.

Human preference

Blind head-to-head votes and playground preference scores

Model Size

Parameter count comparison

722.0B diff

Atria Dawn Preview has 722.0B more parameters than Mistral Small, making it 3281.8% larger.

Shanghai AI Laboratory
Atria Dawn Preview
744.0Bparameters
Mistral AI
Mistral Small
22.0Bparameters
744.0B
Atria Dawn Preview
22.0B
Mistral Small

Context Window

Maximum input and output token capacity

Only Mistral Small specifies input context (32,768 tokens). Only Mistral Small specifies output context (32,768 tokens).

Shanghai AI Laboratory
Atria Dawn Preview
Input- tokens
Output- tokens
Mistral AI
Mistral Small
Input32,768 tokens
Output32,768 tokens
Tue Sep 15 2026 • llm-stats.com

License

Usage and distribution terms

Atria Dawn Preview is licensed under MIT, while Mistral Small uses Mistral Research License.

License differences may affect how you can use these models in commercial or open-source projects.

Atria Dawn Preview

MIT

Open weights

Mistral Small

Mistral Research License

Open weights

Release Timeline

When each model was launched

Atria Dawn Preview was released on 2026-09-11, while Mistral Small was released on 2024-09-17.

Atria Dawn Preview is 24 months newer than Mistral Small.

Atria Dawn Preview

Sep 11, 2026

4 days ago

2.0yr newer
Mistral Small

Sep 17, 2024

2.0 years ago

Knowledge Cutoff

When training data ends

Neither model specifies a knowledge cutoff date.

Unable to compare the recency of their training data.

No cutoff dates available

Outputs Comparison

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Judge for yourself.

Run your own prompts against Atria Dawn Preview and Mistral Small side-by-side, then vote on the output you prefer.

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FAQ

Common questions about Atria Dawn Preview vs Mistral Small.

Which is better, Atria Dawn Preview or Mistral Small?

Atria Dawn Preview (Shanghai AI Laboratory) and Mistral Small (Mistral AI) each have strengths in different areas. Compare their benchmark scores, pricing, context windows, and capabilities above to determine which fits your needs.

How does Atria Dawn Preview compare to Mistral Small in benchmarks?

Atria Dawn Preview scores DeepSearchQA: 96.0%, BrowseComp: 92.5%, CyberGym: 86.5%, MLE-Bench Lite: 86.2%, WideSearch: 81.9%.

What are the context window sizes for Atria Dawn Preview and Mistral Small?

Atria Dawn Preview supports an unknown number of tokens and Mistral Small supports 33K tokens. A larger context window lets you process longer documents, conversations, or codebases in a single request.

What are the main differences between Atria Dawn Preview and Mistral Small?

Key differences include licensing (MIT vs Mistral Research License). See the full comparison above for benchmark-by-benchmark results.

Who makes Atria Dawn Preview and Mistral Small?

Atria Dawn Preview is developed by Shanghai AI Laboratory and Mistral Small is developed by Mistral AI.

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