1 versions from Mistral AI, reviewed by the TopReviewed AI panel.
| Model | Score | Status | Released | Price in/out | Context | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mistral Small 4 best price-to-capability open multimodal model | 8.5 | GA | 2026-03-15 | $0.15 / $0.60 | 256K | Review → |
Mistral Small 4 (release 26.03, shipped 16 March 2026) is the cost-disruption release of the 2026 lineup: a 119B-parameter Mixture-of-Experts with only 6.5B active per token (128 experts, 4 active), priced at $0.15/$0.60 per 1M tokens, under genuine Apache 2.0. Despite the "Small" label it scores 78.0% on MMLU-Pro and 71.2% on GPQA Diamond — within reach of Medium 3.1 and Large 3 — while running on a single GPU. It unifies chat, reasoning, and coding in one efficient model. The buyer's sentence: the best price-to-capability open multimodal model in 2026, with Apache 2.0 as a structural moat.
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