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Mistral Small 4: Benchmarks, Pricing & Context Window

Mistral Small 4 is a language model from Mistral, released in March 2026, with multimodal input, a 256K-token context window, and pricing from $0.150/M input and $0.600/M output.

Mistral Small 4 is Mistral AI's hybrid small model that unifies instruct, reasoning, multimodal understanding, and coding capabilities in a single efficient system. It uses a 119B-parameter Mixture-of-Experts architecture with native image

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Mistral Small 4 benchmarks

Capability tiers

Standing within each category, adjusted for leaderboard depth.

Real tasks performance

High-confidence performance for Mistral Small 4 across real-world prompt categories. Only 95% intervals at most 4 points wide are shown.

Performance by conversation depth

How Mistral Small 4 holds up as conversations get longer.

Quality Tracker

Mistral Small 4 Performance Across Datasets

Scores sourced from the model's scorecard, paper, or official blog posts

LLM Stats Logollm-stats.com - Fri Nov 06 2026
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Mistral Small 4 pricing

Providers

Mistral Small 4 starts at $0.150 per million input tokens and $0.600 per million output tokens via Mistral AI.

ProviderInput $/MCached input $/MOutput $/MContext in / outTTFT p95 sOutput p5 c/sModalities in / out
Mistral AI logoMistral AI
$0.150—$0.600256.0K/256.0K
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Cached input is the discounted price for prompt tokens served from a provider cache. TTFT is time to first token. Output is characters per second; p5 is the sustained floor exceeded by 95% of observed requests.

Mistral Small 4 model size

Mistral Small 4 has 119 billion parameters. See how it compares to other models in the same parameter range.

Parameters
119BMoE
Very large (80–200B)
119B
1B7B70B405B

Mistral Small 4 context window

Input and output token limits for Mistral Small 4, plus how it ranks on long-context understanding.

InputOutput
256Ktokens
256Ktokens
≈ 385 pages of text
256K
8K128K1M

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Mistral Small 4 latency

Mistral Small 4 time to first token, sustained output throughput, and failed-request rate from live model usage over the trailing 7 days.

Mistral Small 4 examples

Recent arena outputs from Mistral Small 4, picked from the highest-ranked matchups.

Mistral Small 4 license

Mistral Small 4 is released under the Apache 2.0 license, which permits commercial use, has 119.0B parameters.

License
Apache 2.0
Commercial use allowed
Parameters
119.0B

Apache License 2.0 - allows commercial use

Mistral Small 4 resources

Official sources for Mistral Small 4: provider documentation, official playground, official launch post.

Mistral Small 4 vs other models

The most-compared alternatives to Mistral Small 4 are Ministral 3 (14B Reasoning 2512), QwQ-32B, Claude 3.5 Sonnet. Open any pair side-by-side for benchmarks, pricing, context, and latency.

Models like Mistral Small 4

Models ranked just above and below Mistral Small 4 by LLM Stats score.

 

Ministral 3 (14B Reasoning 2512)

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QwQ-32B

Score pending
 

Claude 3.5 Sonnet

Score pending
 

Qwen3 30B A3B

Score pending
 

Qwen3 VL 32B Thinking

Score pending
 

Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Thinking

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FAQ

Common questions about Mistral Small 4.

When was Mistral Small 4 released?

Mistral Small 4 was released on March 16, 2026 by Mistral. This is the official Mistral Small 4 release date tracked on LLM Stats.

How much does Mistral Small 4 cost?

Mistral Small 4 pricing starts at $0.15 per million input tokens and $0.60 per million output tokens via Mistral AI, the lowest price among tracked providers.

How big is Mistral Small 4?

Mistral Small 4 has 119 billion parameters. It ships as an open-weight model, so you can download and run it on your own hardware.

Who created Mistral Small 4?

Mistral Small 4 was created by Mistral.

What is the license for Mistral Small 4?

Mistral Small 4 is released under the Apache 2.0 license. This is an open-source / open-weight license that permits self-hosting.

Is Mistral Small 4 multimodal?

Yes, Mistral Small 4 is multimodal and can accept both text and images as input.

Where can I use Mistral Small 4?

Mistral Small 4 is available through 1 provider including Mistral AI.

Where is the Mistral Small 4 paper or technical report?

Mistral Small 4 has a paper or technical report available at https://mistral.ai/news/mistral-small-4. Use that source for architecture, training, release and evaluation details.

What models should I compare Mistral Small 4 against?

Common Mistral Small 4 comparisons include Mistral Small 4 vs Ministral 3 (14B Reasoning 2512), Mistral Small 4 vs QwQ-32B, Mistral Small 4 vs Claude 3.5 Sonnet. Compare them side by side for benchmark scores, pricing, context window, latency and provider availability.