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Atria Dawn Preview vs Mistral Small 4

Atria Dawn Preview leads the LLM Stats Score 52.3 to 19.0.

Shanghai AI Laboratory · Mistral AI · Updated for 2026

Which is better?

Atria Dawn Preview leads the overall LLM Stats Score 52.3 to 19.0, ranking #10 overall.

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

Choose Atria Dawn Preview

  • overall performance matters — it scores 52.3 and ranks #10 on LLM Stats
  • your work emphasizes reasoning and coding — it leads those capability indexes
  • you want the most recent training data — it shipped Sep 2026

Choose Mistral Small 4

  • you want predictable pricing at $0.15/M input and $0.60/M output

At a glance

The differences that matter most.

Atria Dawn Preview
Shanghai AI Laboratory
Mistral Small 4
Mistral AI
Core performance indexes
LLM Stats Score
52.3
#10
19.0
#209
Reasoning
50.5
#12
19.9
#191
Coding
36.2
#22
10.7
#162
Cost, coverage & limits
Benchmark wins
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—
Input price
— / M
$0.15 / M
Output price
— / M
$0.60 / M
Context window
—
256,000

Individual benchmarks

12 reported for Atria Dawn Preview · 9 for Mistral Small 4

No common benchmarks found

Atria Dawn Preview and Mistral Small 4don'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

625.0B diff

Atria Dawn Preview has 625.0B more parameters than Mistral Small 4, making it 525.2% larger.

Shanghai AI Laboratory
Atria Dawn Preview
744.0Bparameters
Mistral AI
Mistral Small 4
119.0Bparameters
744.0B
Atria Dawn Preview
119.0B
Mistral Small 4

Context Window

Maximum input and output token capacity

Only Mistral Small 4 specifies input context (256,000 tokens). Only Mistral Small 4 specifies output context (256,000 tokens).

Shanghai AI Laboratory
Atria Dawn Preview
Input- tokens
Output- tokens
Mistral AI
Mistral Small 4
Input256,000 tokens
Output256,000 tokens
Mon Sep 21 2026 • llm-stats.com

Input capabilities

Documented input modalities across available providers

Mistral Small 4 supports multimodal inputs, whereas Atria Dawn Preview does not.

Mistral Small 4 can handle both text and other forms of data like images, making it suitable for multimodal applications.

Atria Dawn Preview

Text
Images
Audio
Video

Mistral Small 4

Text
Images
Audio
Video

License

Usage and distribution terms

Atria Dawn Preview is licensed under MIT, while Mistral Small 4 uses Apache 2.0.

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

Atria Dawn Preview

MIT

Open weights

Mistral Small 4

Apache 2.0

Open weights

Release Timeline

When each model was launched

Atria Dawn Preview was released on 2026-09-11, while Mistral Small 4 was released on 2026-03-16.

Atria Dawn Preview is 6 months newer than Mistral Small 4.

Atria Dawn Preview

Sep 11, 2026

1 weeks ago

5mo newer
Mistral Small 4

Mar 16, 2026

6 months 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 4 side-by-side, then vote on the output you prefer.

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FAQ

Common questions about Atria Dawn Preview vs Mistral Small 4.

Which is better, Atria Dawn Preview or Mistral Small 4?

Atria Dawn Preview leads the LLM Stats Score 52.3 to 19.0. Atria Dawn Preview is made by Shanghai AI Laboratory and Mistral Small 4 is made by Mistral AI. The best choice depends on your use case — compare their capability indexes, individual benchmarks, pricing, and limits above.

How does Atria Dawn Preview compare to Mistral Small 4 in benchmarks?

Atria Dawn Preview scores DeepSearchQA: 96.0%, BrowseComp: 92.5%, CyberGym: 86.5%, MLE-Bench Lite: 86.2%, WideSearch: 81.9%. Mistral Small 4 scores AIME 2025: 83.8%, MMLU-Pro: 78.0%, AA-LCR: 71.2%, GPQA: 71.2%, LiveCodeBench: 63.6%.

What are the context window sizes for Atria Dawn Preview and Mistral Small 4?

Atria Dawn Preview supports an unknown number of tokens and Mistral Small 4 supports 256K 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 4?

Key differences include LLM Stats Score (52.3 vs 19.0), multimodal support (no vs yes), licensing (MIT vs Apache 2.0). See the full comparison above for benchmark-by-benchmark results.

Who makes Atria Dawn Preview and Mistral Small 4?

Atria Dawn Preview is developed by Shanghai AI Laboratory and Mistral Small 4 is developed by Mistral AI.

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