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Mistral · Mistral Small

Mistral Small 4

Open weightsGenerally availableApache-2.0

Apache-2.0 hybrid MoE (119B total / 6.5B active) that unifies instruct, reasoning and coding in one low-cost model.

AA Intelligence
11.3#94 of 142
Input / output per 1M
$0.15/ $0.60
Output speed
167tok/s
Context window
256K tokens

Composite indexes

  • Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index#94 of 142
    11independentIntelligence Index v4.3; reasoningArtificial Analysis: Mistral Small 4 (Reasoning) ↗
    9independentIntelligence Index v4.3; non-reasoning modeArtificial Analysis: Mistral Small 4 (Non-reasoning) ↗

    Leader: Claude Opus 5.5 at 58

Coding

  • SciCode#73 of 94
    38.8%independentreasoningArtificial Analysis: Mistral Small 4 (Reasoning) ↗

    Leader: Claude Opus 5.5 at 66.9%

  • Terminal-Bench 4.0#76 of 88
    0%independentreasoningArtificial Analysis: Mistral Small 4 (Reasoning) ↗

    Leader: Claude Mythos 5.1 at 60.9%

  • Terminal-Bench 2.x#82 of 103
    21%independentTerminal-Bench 2.1; reasoningArtificial Analysis: Mistral Small 4 (Reasoning) ↗

    Leader: Claude Fable 5.1 at 91.4%

Agents and tool use

  • τ²-Bench#50 of 88
    41.2%independenttelecom; reasoningArtificial Analysis: Mistral Small 4 (Reasoning) ↗

    Leader: GLM-5.2 at 99.1%

  • GDPval-AA#84 of 103
    349independentreasoningArtificial Analysis: Mistral Small 4 (Reasoning) ↗

    Leader: Claude Opus 5.5 at 1846

Reasoning and knowledge

  • GPQA Diamond#79 of 142
    76.9%independentreasoningArtificial Analysis: Mistral Small 4 (Reasoning) ↗

    Leader: GPT-6 Astra at 96.1%

  • Humanity’s Last Exam#106 of 147
    9.9%independentno tools; reasoningArtificial Analysis: Mistral Small 4 (Reasoning) ↗

    Leader: Claude Opus 5.5 at 61.4%

  • CritPt#80 of 139
    0.3%independentreasoningArtificial Analysis: Mistral Small 4 (Reasoning) ↗

    Leader: GPT-5.6 Sol at 32.3%

Vision and long context

  • AA Long Context Reasoning#92 of 139
    49.7%independentreasoningArtificial Analysis: Mistral Small 4 (Reasoning) ↗

    Leader: Kimi K3 at 88.7%

  • MMMU-Pro#60 of 72
    56.8%independentreasoningArtificial Analysis: Mistral Small 4 (Reasoning) ↗

    Leader: Claude Opus 5.5 at 87.7%

Other published results

ResultScoreReported bySource
Terminal-Bench Hard (AA) · reasoning17.4%independentArtificial Analysis: Mistral Small 4 (Reasoning) ↗
IFBench · reasoning48.2%independentArtificial Analysis: Mistral Small 4 (Reasoning) ↗
tau2-Bench Banking (AA) · reasoning4.9%independentArtificial Analysis: Mistral Small 4 (Reasoning) ↗
AA-Omniscience Index · reasoning-30.4 indexindependentArtificial Analysis: Mistral Small 4 (Reasoning) ↗
AA Analyst Agent · reasoning1.2%independentArtificial Analysis: Mistral Small 4 (Reasoning) ↗

Specs

Released
March 16, 2026
Parameters
119B total, 6.5B active
Size class
100 to 500B
Input
text, image
Output
text
Context
256K tokens
Max output
Not published
Blended 70/30
$0.285 / 1M
First token
0.77s
  • Price: Mistral docs model page ↗ Mistral API list price per 1M tokens.
  • Speed: Artificial Analysis leaderboard (Mistral Small 4 (Reasoning), median across providers or first-party as shown) ↗

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