What is Mistral Small 4?

Mistral Small 4 is a multimodal AI model developed by Mistral AI with 119 billion parameters.

Who made Mistral Small 4?

Mistral Small 4 was created by Mistral AI.

Is Mistral Small 4 open source?

Yes, Mistral Small 4 has open weights and can be downloaded and self-hosted.

What is Mistral Small 4's context window?

Mistral Small 4 supports a context window of 262,144 tokens.

Mistral Small 4

Mistral AIMULTIMODAL Open weight

Provider: Mistral AI
Modality: MULTIMODAL
Parameters: 119B
Context window: 262,144 tokens
Weights: Open
Released: 16 Mar 2026

Compare Mistral Small 4 with others

Mistral Small 4 (March 2026) is the value champion — a 119B/6.5B-active Apache-2.0 MoE that runs on one consumer GPU yet handles multimodal, reasoning and coding.

Best for

Cost-efficient production workhorse / default model
Unifies instruct + reasoning + multimodal + agentic coding
~40% faster, ~3x throughput vs Small 3 (only 6.5B active)
High-volume, latency-sensitive, on-prem deployments

How it compares — and the India angle

Strongest pick for Indian developers: Apache 2.0 + MoE efficiency makes self-hosting genuinely cheap.
Self-hostable on a single RTX 4090-class GPU, avoiding USD API bills entirely.
At $0.10/$0.30 the managed API is firmly budget-tier even if you don't self-host.

Benchmarks

Representative public scores (approximate, higher is better) for relative comparison. Check the provider for the latest official results.

GPQA Diamond71

How to access

API ~$0.10 / 1M input, ~$0.30 / 1M output. Apache 2.0; 6.5B active / 119B total MoE.

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