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Mistral Small 4OPEN
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Benchmarks & performance
Independent benchmark scores for Mistral Small 4, measured by Artificial Analysis. Higher is better. Measurement mode: Reasoning.
For the same budget, Mistral Small 4 delivers 12 times more capability. Open weights also mean you can self-host it and pay nothing per token.
About this model
Mistral Small 4 is an open-weight AI model by Mistral AI. You can download and self-host it for free; the prices below are hosted-API list prices, tracked hourly, for when you prefer convenience over self-hosting.
Frequently asked questions
What is Mistral Small 4?
Mistral Small 4 is an AI language model from Mistral AI. It is open-weight: you can download it and run it on your own hardware, for free. It scores 19.6 on the Artificial Analysis intelligence index.
Is Mistral Small 4 free?
The weights are free and open — you can self-host Mistral Small 4 and pay nothing per token. If you prefer a hosted API, list prices are $0.15 per million input tokens and $0.6 per million output tokens.
What is Mistral Small 4 good at?
Independent benchmarks from Artificial Analysis give it GPQA 76.9%, Humanity's Last Exam 9.5%, Long Context Reasoning 44.7%, SciCode 38%, IFBench 48.2%, τ²-Bench 41.2%, τ-Bench Banking 5.2%, Terminal-Bench 21%, Terminal-Bench Hard 17.4%. It is particularly used for code generation.
How fast is Mistral Small 4?
It generates about 168.6 tokens per second, with a median 0.59s delay before the first token. Measured independently by Artificial Analysis.
Can I self-host Mistral Small 4?
Yes. Mistral Small 4 has open weights, so you can download it and run it on your own GPU or server with tools like Ollama, vLLM or llama.cpp — with no per-token cost.
Open-source alternatives
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