Mistral Small 4

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Mistral Small 4 combines instruction-following, reasoning and coding in an Apache-2.0 open-weight model released.

Key specifications

Specification score
64.3
Context window
256K
Max output
256K
Input / 1M tokens
$0.15
Output / 1M tokens
$0.60
License
Apache-2.0
Parameters
6.5B active / 119B total

The specification score summarizes recorded features and limits. It is not a benchmark result.

Inputs and outputs

Recorded modality support shows what this model can accept and produce. An undocumented modality is shown as unknown rather than assumed to be unsupported.

Accepts

  • Text input
  • Image input

Produces

  • Text output

Capabilities

ReasoningFunction callingVisionJSON modeOpen weights

What is Mistral Small 4?

Mistral Small 4 combines instruction-following, reasoning and coding in an Apache-2.0 open-weight model released.

Active parameters are only part of the footprint

The publisher documents 119B total parameters and 6.5B active parameters. The model still needs access to the full set of weights when serving. Context length, precision, batching and the inference engine add further memory costs. Do not size a deployment using the active count alone.

A lower-cost hosted baseline

The documented API context allowance is 256,000 tokens, with rates of $0.15 input and $0.60 output per million tokens. This makes Small 4 a useful candidate to evaluate before routing every ordinary task through a more expensive model. Whether it is sufficient depends on your accepted-result rate and the corrections it needs.

Evaluate ordinary work carefully

Test short code repairs, document extraction and requests with strict formatting. Include ambiguous inputs and facts that are missing from the source. Check schema validity and tool arguments in addition to prose quality.

For a longer agent task, measure whether the model completes the deliverable and recovers when a tool fails. Keep the same runtime and time budget when comparing with Mistral Medium 3.5. A higher token rate can still be cheaper per finished task when it reduces enough retries; the reverse can also be true.

Sources

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How to evaluate Mistral Small 4

Compare the model on the work you need to complete.

Tasks and inputs

Mistral Small 4 is listed for Image-text-to-text, Text generation. It accepts text, image and produces text. Use the publisher’s input format and preprocessing for your chosen deployment.

Capacity and cost

Documented limits: 256K context and 256K maximum output. The listed route charges $0.15 input and $0.60 output per million tokens. Measure a completed task using the prompts, documents and tools your application will use. Include reasoning and retries in the result.

Choosing a deployment

The weights are downloadable under Apache-2.0. Check runtime support and size the complete model and working context for your expected concurrency.

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