Mistral Small 4
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 Magistral, multimodal understanding from Pixtral, and agentic coding capabilities from Devstral, enabling one model to handle complex analysis, software development, and visual tasks within the same workflow.
Context window
This model accepts 262K tokens in one request (~197K words of text).
What fits in one request
- FitsShort documentAbout 1,500 words of text
- FitsLong documentAbout 37K words of text
- FitsSmall codebaseAbout 150K words of text
- Won't fitFull novelAbout 375K words of text
Specifications
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- Context window
- 262,144 tokens (262K)
- Speed tier
- balanced
- Provider
- Mistral
- Model family
- Mistral Small
- Release date
- Mar 2026
Capabilities
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- Vision
- Accepts image inputs alongside text
- Supported
- Tool use
- Can call external tools and APIs
- Supported
- Function calling
- Structured function call interface
- Supported
- Extended thinking
- Shows its chain-of-thought reasoning
- Supported
- Streaming
- Returns tokens as they are generated
- Supported
- Prompt caching
- Reuse repeated prompt prefixes cheaply
- Supported
- Web search
- Can browse the web during a request
- Not supported
- Batch API
- Process many requests asynchronously
- Not supported
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- Mistral Small 4 vs Codellama 34b Instruct
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