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Mistral Small 4 (batch)

by Mistral · mistralai/mistral-small-2603:batch · #57 cheapest of 422 paid models

Prices updated Sep 19, 2026, 6:21 PM UTC · refreshed hourly

Mistral Small 4 is the next major release in the Mistral Small family, unifying the capabilities of several flagship Mistral models into a single system. It combines strong reasoning from...

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Pricing

Input

$0.075

per 1M tokens

Output

$0.30

per 1M tokens

Blended (3:1)

$0.131

3 input : 1 output

Cache read

$0.0075

per 1M cached tokens

Cache write

per 1M tokens

Cache & batch economics

Effective prices for Mistral Small 4 (batch) with prompt caching.

Cache hit rateEffective blended $/1MExample request*vs no cache
0%$0.131$0.00795
50%$0.106$0.004575−42%
90%$0.086$0.001875−76%

*Example: 100K sticky context + 2K new input + 1K output. Batch discount is an approximate 50% off list rates (available for OpenAI / Anthropic / Google — not flagged for this creator). Confirm on the vendor’s pricing page.

What a request costs

WorkloadInput tokensOutput tokensCost / requestCost / 1K requests
Short chat message500300$0.000127$0.1275
Document summary8,0001,000$0.0009$0.9
Codebase question (RAG)30,0002,000$0.00285$2.85
Long-context analysis150,0005,000$0.0127$12.75

Performance

Intelligence Index

11.5

AA composite quality

Coding Index

26.6

Math Index

Agentic Index

1.4

Output speed

median

Time to first token

median

Time to first answer

after reasoning tokens

Specs

Context window

262K

tokens

Max output

210K

tokens

Input modalities

text, image

Tokenizer

Mistral