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Mistral AI

Mistral Small 4

Released Mar 16, 2026 · knowledge cutoff unpublished

Status
Superseded
Location
France
Modality
Multimodal
Context window
262K
Max output
Speed
Price ($/MTok in / out)
$0.15 / $0.60
Cost per task
$0.098
Open weights
Yes
Benchmarks3 of 8 reported

MMLU-Pro

78%

GPQA Diamond

71.2%

LMArena Elo

1358

SWE-bench Verified

Terminal-Bench 2.1

AIME (latest)

Humanity's Last Exam

ARC-AGI-2

Strengths & weaknesses

Strengths

  • One small model covers reasoning, vision and coding instead of three separate ones
  • Fits on a single GPU under a permissive licence
  • Reasoning can be switched off entirely for latency-sensitive work

Weaknesses

  • A fast generalist with a real depth ceiling — it won't reason its way out of a hard problem
  • Merging three previous lines means it is rarely the best at any one of them

256k context and $0.15/$0.60 pricing per Mistral's announcement (earlier trackers listed 128k). MMLU-Pro 78.0 / GPQA 71.2 third-party-reported; LMArena Elo 1358 via BenchLM's Arena tracking.

For developers

API model strings

Not researched

Licence

Not researched

Retirement

No retirement announced

Lineage

No recorded predecessor

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