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Mistral: Mistral Small 3 vs Mistral: Mistral Small 4

MMistral: Mistral Small 3mistralai/mistral-small-24b-instruct-2501VSMMistral: Mistral Small 4mistralai/mistral-small-2603

Mistral: Mistral Small 4 wins on more metrics (4 of 7), but the right pick depends on what you optimize for — see the breakdown below.

MetricMistral: Mistral Small 3Mistral: Mistral Small 4
Intelligence Index——
Coding Index—16.4✓
GPQA Diamond46%57%✓
Design Arena Elo——
Speed (tokens/sec)4272✓
Latency302ms✓448ms
Input price /M$0.050✓$0.150
Output price /M$0.080✓$0.600
Context window33K262K✓
CapabilitiesJSONReasoningToolsJSONVision
Mistral: Mistral Small 3 details →Mistral: Mistral Small 4 details →