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Mistral Small 4pricing and what it's actually good for

Mistral Small 4 from Mistral AI. Released under Apache 2.0 per Mistral's models overview. Mistral publishes a 50% batch discount and up to 90% off cached input tokens. Context window and max output are not published on the models overview page and are recorded as unknown rather than taken from a third party.

Released
16 Mar 2026
API identifier
mistral-small-4

Pricing · per 1M tokens

Input$0.15
Output$0.60

Checked against Mistral API pricing on 7 Aug 2026, 11:51 UTC

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