Mistral Small 4 pricing and routing profile
Mistral Small 4 from Mistral AI lists at $0.15 per million input tokens and $0.60 per million output tokens, with a 262,144-token context window. Prices from OpenRouter's catalogue on 2026-09-28.
Tool callingStructured outputReasoning control
Cost per 1,000 requests
| Request shape | List cost |
|---|---|
| Classification or routing (600 tokens in, 10 out) | $0.096 |
| Chat reply (2,000 in, 400 out) | $0.54 |
| Retrieval-augmented answer (8,000 in, 500 out) | $1.50 |
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Can Gimbix route to it first?
Not as a first-answer model through OpenRouter: no host returns token log probabilities for Mistral Small 4. It can still be the model Gimbix falls back to when a cheaper model is unsure.
Who serves Mistral Small 4
| Host | Input / output per 1M | Log probabilities | Uptime, last 30 min |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mistral | $0.15 / $0.60 | no | 100.0% |
| Mistral | $0.15 / $0.60 | no | 100.0% |
| Mistral | $0.165 / $0.66 | no | 100.0% |
| Mistral | $0.165 / $0.66 | no | 100.0% |
A host that lists log probabilities may still omit them; Gimbix checks each one before relying on it.
Cheaper models that can answer first
Models priced below Mistral Small 4 that expose a confidence signal. Whether they answer your traffic as well is what a Gimbix pilot measures.
| Model | Input / output per 1M | Cheaper on a chat reply |
|---|---|---|
| Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct | $0.117 / $0.455 | 23% |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423 | $0.14 / $0.28 | 27% |
| Qwen3 VL 32B Instruct | $0.104 / $0.416 | 31% |
| Ternary Bonsai 2 27B | $0.075 / $0.50 | 35% |
| Nemotron 3 Super | $0.08 / $0.45 | 37% |
| Gemma 3 27B | $0.08 / $0.45 | 37% |
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Questions
How much does Mistral Small 4 cost?
Mistral Small 4 lists at $0.15 per million input tokens and $0.60 per million output tokens on OpenRouter as of 2026-09-28. A typical chat reply of 2,000 input and 400 output tokens costs about $0.54 per 1,000 requests.
What is the context window of Mistral Small 4?
262,144 tokens.
Can a cheaper model replace Mistral Small 4?
Sometimes. Gimbix proves it on your own traffic before routing: the cheaper model must match Mistral Small 4 on one half of your requests and make at most three answers worse on the other.