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Mistral Small 4

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Researched 4d ago

Last refreshed 2026-05-14. Next refresh: weekly.

MultimodalRAGAgentsLong contextVisionJSON / Tool use

Mistral Small 4 is worth evaluating for rag, agents, and long context when its provider route and context window match the workload.

Decision context: RAG task fit, 3 tracked provider routes, and research from 2026-05-14.

Use it for

  • Teams evaluating rag, agents, and long context
  • Workloads that can use a 256K context window
  • Buyers comparing 3 tracked provider routes

Do not use it for

  • Workloads where another current model has stronger sourced task evidence

Cheapest output

$0.600

Mistral AI Studio per 1M tokens

Provider routes

3

Tracked API hosts

Quality / dollar

Unknown

No task benchmark coverage yet

Freshness

2026-05-14

Researched 4d ago

fresh

Top use-case fit

RAG

Included by capability and metadata signals in the decision map.

Agents

Included by capability and metadata signals in the decision map.

Long context

Included by capability and metadata signals in the decision map.

Provider price ladder

ProviderInput / 1MOutput / 1MRoute
Mistral AI Studio$0.150$0.600
Serverless
OpenRouter$0.150$0.600
Serverless
NVIDIA NIM--
ServerlessPartial

Benchmark peer barsfor RAG

No task-mapped benchmark peers are available for this model yet.

Migration checks

No linked migration route is available for this model yet.

About

Mistral Small 4 is a hybrid 119B MoE model unifying instruct, reasoning, and coding capabilities. Features configurable reasoning effort per request and native function calling with JSON output support.

Mistral Small 4 has a 256K-token context window.

Mistral Small 4 input tokens at $0.15/1M, output at $0.6/1M.

Capabilities

VisionMultimodalFunction CallingTool Use

Benchmark Scores(1)

Scores are benchmark-specific and are direction-aware: the same numeric gap can mean very different outcomes across suites. Use the leaderboard context and this model's provider route to decide whether the winning margin is meaningful for your workload.
BenchmarkScoreVersionSource
Google-Proof Q&A76.9diamondArtificial Analysis

Rankings

Specifications

Released2026-03-16
Parameters119B (6.5B active)
Context256K
Architecturemoe
Specializationgeneral
LicenseApache 2.0
Trainingpretrained

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