Mistral Small 4 vs Llama 4 Maverick

Best cell per row highlighted. Null means undisclosed — never counted as zero.

Mistral AI
Mistral Small 4GA
8.5
AI Panel
Meta
Llama 4 MaverickGA
7.7
AI Panel

Identity & lifecycle

ProviderMistral AIMeta
Family / tierMistral Small · SmallLlama 4 · Maverick
StatusGAGA
Released2026-03-162025-04-05
Knowledge cutoff2026-012024-08

Architecture & context

Context window256K1M
Max output tokens16K8K
Input modalitiestext, imagetext, image
Reasoning modeoptionalnone
Open weightsYesYes

Pricing (per Mtok)

Input$0.15$0.2
Output$0.6$0.85
Cached input——
Batch input$0.075—
Free tierYesNo

Speed

Output speed (tok/s)180104.3
Time to first token (s)—0.66
Latency tierfastfast

Trust & deployment

Trains on inputsNoNo
LicenseApache-2.0Llama-4-Community
CloudsBedrock, Azure AI Foundry, Vertex AIBedrock, Vertex AI, Azure AI Foundry, GCP, OCI, IBM watsonx
ComplianceSOC2, ISO27001, GDPR—

AI Panel scoring

Unified score8.57.7
Decision Maker8.58.5
Domain Strategist8.57.5
Finance Lead9.59
Domain Practitioner97.5
Power User7.56.5
Skeptic7.55.5
Value score9.59

Benchmarks

MMLU—85.5
MMLU-Pro7880.5
GPQA Diamond71.269.8
MATH-500—61.2
HumanEval—85.8
LiveCodeBench—43.4
Aider Polyglot—15.6
MMMU—73.4
LMArena Elo—1327
LMArena Coding Elo—1373

Scores link to their sources. Missing cells mean the vendor hasn't disclosed a result — honesty over padding.