Mistral Small 4 specs, prices, where it runs and its benchmark standing

Name: Mistral Small 4
Author: Mistral AI

open weights · top 10 on 0 of 2 · released Mar 16, 2026

Provider: Mistral AI
Release date: Mar 16, 2026; Releases
Parameters: 119B total; Hugging Face
Modalities: Text, Image to Text; OpenRouter
License: Apache 2.0; Hugging Face
Context window: 262K tokens; Pricing
Pricing: $0.15 in / $0.6 out per 1M tokens; All prices
Hosting: 3 priced API routes · OpenRouter · self-host: weights on Hugging Face; Pricing
Hardware: Estimate: about 121 GB of weights as published (F8 E4M3), about 119 GB at 8-bit, about 60 GB at 4-bit, plus memory for the context; Hugging Face config
Weights: Open weights
Announced: Release of Mistral Small 4; Mar 16, 2026 on Releases
Benchmarks: 2 boards captured

Rank	Board	Category	Score	Of	Over time
43	AA SpeedSpeed · as “Mistral Small 4” Unverified	Speed	2 tok/s	43
48	AA IntelligenceReasoning · as “Mistral Small 4 (Reasoning)”	Reasoning	4.3	50

Versions and release history

7 versions in this line since Jan 30, 2025, from Pricing, OpenRouter and the boards.

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