Mistral Small 4
mistral/mistral-small-4- Mistral
- Family · Mistral Small 4
- Released 16 Mar 2026
- Text · Image → Text
- Reasoning · adjustable
- Tools · JSON · Vision
Not on OSMEXO yet
Spec & list price
Context256K
Max output210K
Input / 1M$0.15
Output / 1M$0.604× input
Scores · standing
Intelligence11.3#228/489
Coding26.6#118/196
Usage
Tokens / day1.7B▲ 72% 7d
Usage rank#170
Requests / day232.0K
Tool calls / req0.06
Per request · 30 days
Avg input2.2K0.1× median
Avg output1960.3× median
Cache hit42%0.6× median
Reasoning share21%0.4× median
Tool-call failures1.2%0.6× median
Consumption
Peak 2.0B 6 OctLow 550.9M 23 OctRank today #170
News & trends
Trending · 14 days
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News · latest from Mistral
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Benchmarks
bar = share of the top score · Benchmark data: Artificial AnalysisSpeed · median across 4 providers, latest day
Output speed#50/334118 tok/s1.8× faster than median
Fastest provider141 tok/sbest of 4 providers
First token#400.43 s2.4× quicker than median
First answer token#4612 sthinking included
#9 cheapest of 34 with a similar score
Value
Intelligence Index
Blended price per 1M tokens (log)
Technical details
- Reasoning
- on · high
- Tokenizer
- Mistral
- License
- Apache 2.0
- Moderation
- none
- Downloads · likes
- 59.9K · 468
Reasoning effort
- high · default
- none
Request parameters 14
- tools
- tool_choice
- response_format
- structured_outputs
- reasoning
- reasoning_effort
- include_reasoning
- temperature
- top_p
- max_tokens
+4 more
- stop
- seed
- frequency_penalty
- presence_penalty
When to use
Best for
- Cost-sensitive agents with tool calling
- Science and technical Q&A with optional reasoning
- Image input in chat and document apps
- Self-hosted general assistants
Think twice for
- Hardest autonomous coding and terminal tasks
- Offline bulk jobs at interactive prices (use the batch variant)
- Image generation
Research papers
- Component Translation and Judge-Labelled Refusal: A Multilingual Safety Evaluation28 Oct
- Do LLMs Reproduce the Age Gap in Loneliness? Evaluating Survey Simulation against European Survey Data18 Oct
- Persistent Billable State: Denial-of-Wallet Attacks and Defenses in Tool-Calling LLM Agents23 Sep
- Talked Out of the Truth: Sycophancy in the Reasoning Chains of Multimodal Models30 Jul
- Same Quantity, Different Answer: Numerical Representation Invariance in Language Models27 Jul
- Distribird: Literature-Informed Prior Distribution Design for Bayesian Model Calibration13 Jul
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