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Mistral Small 4
mistral·mistral/mistral-small-2603·GA·Open weights·mistral-small series
Fast Mistral production model for chat, extraction, and cost-sensitive agents
At a glance
Official price$0.15 / $0.60 per 1M
Cache read — · Mistral
Lowest paid$0.143 / $0.568
Cortecs Gateway · 1.7× spread
Context256,000
⚠ Providers report 32,000–262,144; the table below is authoritative
Output limit256,000
Capabilities
✓ Reasoning✓ Tool use✓ Structured output✓ Temperature✓ Attachments
⚠ Providers report capability flags inconsistently
Modalities
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Knowledge cutoff2025-06
Released / updated2026-03-16 / 2026-03-16
Quality & performanceArtificial Analysis · Intelligence Index v4.1 · rep. tier Reasoning
Intelligence19.7
Value79
Coding26.6
Agentic4.6
Output speed160 tok/s
TTFT0.8 s
Cost per task$0.1003
Value formulaIQ 19.7 ÷ min blended $0.249 = 79
Reasoning tier → intelligence / speed (higher tier = stronger but slower)
Non-reasoningIQ 12.3 · 137 tok/s
ReasoningIQ 19.7 · 160 tok/s
Quality is independently evaluated by Artificial Analysis. Speed/latency are model-level medians.
Available at 11 providers11 with public prices
| Provider | Tier | Input | Output | Cache read | Cache write | Context | Output limit | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cortecs | Gateway | $0.143 | $0.568 | $0.014 | — | 262,144 ⚠ | 262,144 | |
| Requesty | Gateway | $0.148 | $0.594 | $0.148 | — | 256,000 | 256,000 | |
| OpenRouter | Gateway | $0.15 | $0.60 | $0.015 | — | 262,144 ⚠ | 262,144 | |
| MistralOfficial | First-party | $0.15 | $0.60 | — | — | 256,000 | 256,000 | |
| EmpirioLabs AI mistral-small-4 | Gateway | $0.15 | $0.60 | $0.15 | — | 256,000 | 65,536 | |
| Eden AI | Gateway | $0.15 | $0.60 | $0.015 | — | 262,144 ⚠ | 256,000 | |
| Kilo Gateway | Gateway | $0.15 | $0.60 | $0.015 | — | 262,144 ⚠ | 262,144 | |
| Pioneer mistralai/Mistral-Small-4-119B-2603 | Gateway | $0.15 | $0.60 | $0.015 | $0.15 | 32,000 ⚠ | 32,000 | |
| AKI.IO mistral4-119b | Gateway | $0.20 | $0.60 | — | — | 262,144 ⚠ | 81,920 | |
| Venice AI | Gateway | $0.188 | $0.75 | — | — | 256,000 | 65,536 | |
| Infomaniak mistralai/Mistral-Small-4-119B-2603 | Gateway | $0.25 | $0.93 | — | — | 256,000 | 256,000 |
Sorted by blended price (input×0.75 + output×0.25) asc. The official channel always shows regardless of rank. Whether a gateway's low price is actually usable can't be verified.
Your usage cost
1Cortecs$41.52
2OpenRouter$43.80
3Eden AI$43.80
4Kilo Gateway$43.80
5Pioneer$43.80
6Requesty$59.40
7Mistral · Official$60.00
Switch to Cortecs to save $18.48/mo (31%)
Note: this is a gateway; verify availability and rate limits yourself.
Benchmark3 items
| Name | Conditions | Score | Metric | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Artificial Analysis Coding Index | — | 24.3 | index | Source ↗ |
| SciCode | — | 38 | percent correct | Source ↗ |
| Terminal-Bench Hard | — | 17.4 | success rate | Source ↗ |
The same benchmark scores very differently across harness / dataset, so the qualifying conditions must be shown together.
Reasoning control
effort = noneeffort = loweffort = mediumeffort = higheffort = maxbudget_tokens
2 / 11 providers expose no reasoning control (reasoning_options: []).
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Price historyone sample accumulated per data sync
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