Mistral Small 4
Low-cost Mistral family for multimodal production workloads.
- Creator
- Mistral AI
- Lifecycle
- Active
- Context
- 256.0K
- Max output
- —
- Released
- Jan 8, 2026
- Status
- up
- Input
- $0.15 / 1M tokens
- Output
- $0.60 / 1M tokens
- Cached read
- — / 1M tokens
- Cached write
- — / 1M tokens
- Batch discount
- —%
- Source
- Mistral Small 4 pricing
- Verified
- Apr 2, 2026 (High)
Capabilities
- Modalities
- textimage→text
- Capabilities
- reasoningimageInputbatchSupportpromptCachingfunctionCallingstructuredOutputs
- Strengths
- Cheap multimodal model, Large context
- Tradeoffs
- Smaller reasoning depth than Large
Official Links
Benchmark Coverage
| Benchmark | Version | Score | Date | Source | Notes |
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Release History
| Release | Alias | Lifecycle | Release Date | Deprecation | Shutdown | Summary |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mistral Small 4 | mistral-small-4 | Active | Jan 8, 2026 | — | — | Current published model family snapshot. |
Host Coverage
| Host | Type | Context | Pricing Note | Differences |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mistral API | first-party | 256.0K | Reference Mistral pricing and rollouts. | Multimodal input |
Migration Guidance
Fast-tier option when Mistral Large is too expensive.
Replacement models: mistral-large
Change Events
| Date | Type | Title | Description | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 8, 2026 | family_added | Mistral Small 4 published | Initial public model family launch. | Mistral Small 4 release notes |
Other models from Mistral AI
Codestral, Devstral 2, Mistral Large, Mistral Large 3, Mistral Medium 3.1