Mistral Small 4 vs Mistral Large 3
Rank, tier, score and price side by side, from our weekly rankings. Scores are editorial opinion based on public sources.
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Mistral Small 4
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Mistral Large 3
- ProviderMistral AIMistral AI
- Rank#43#41Higher rank
- TierAA
- Score80.080.9Higher score
- PriceFree (open weights); paid API availableLower price tierAPI $0.50 input / $1.50 output per 1M tokens; open weights (Apache 2.0)
- TaglineHybrid open model unifying instruct, reasoning, and coding in a single efficient package.Mistral's December 2025 open-weight (Apache 2.0) Mixture-of-Experts model with 675B total parameters and a 256K-token context window.
| Attribute | Mistral Small 4 | Mistral Large 3 |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Mistral AI | Mistral AI |
| Rank | #43 | #41Higher rank |
| Tier | A | A |
| Score | 80.0 | 80.9Higher score |
| Price | Free (open weights); paid API availableLower price tier | API $0.50 input / $1.50 output per 1M tokens; open weights (Apache 2.0) |
| Tagline | Hybrid open model unifying instruct, reasoning, and coding in a single efficient package. | Mistral's December 2025 open-weight (Apache 2.0) Mixture-of-Experts model with 675B total parameters and a 256K-token context window. |