Mistral AI · text model

Mistral Small 4

Name: Mistral Small 4
Brand: Mistral AI
Price: 0.1500 USD

Not scored yet on overall. $0.47 per 1,000 support replies at list price.

List price, not verified yet

key_facts.txt

Released: 16 Mar 2026
Context window: 262K tokens
Longest reply: 256K tokens
Open weights: Yes
Reasoning mode: Yes
Tool use: Yes
Reads: text, image, pdf
Writes: text
Knowledge cutoff: 2025-06

scores.txt

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Provisional, 0 to 100 among the text models we track, from Arena and Epoch AI. How we score.

Prices and where to run it

Provider	Region	Input per 1M	Output per 1M	Cached input	Data retention	Checked
mistral	global	$0.15	$0.60	$0.015	Not checked	List price, unverified

Price history and a CSV download arrive with the open price dataset.

call_it.sh

Call it through OpenRouter

curl https://openrouter.ai/api/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $OPENROUTER_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"model": "mistral/mistral-small-4", "messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "Hello"}]}'

Not listed on OpenRouter; use the vendor’s own API.

next.txt

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