Mistral: Mistral Small 4 vs Mistral: Mistral Small Creative

Side-by-side comparison of API pricing, context window, latency, and benchmark performance. Data refreshed daily from provider APIs and ModelStop's own latency probes.

Key Differences

💰Mistral: Mistral Small 4 is 100% cheaper than Mistral: Mistral Small Creative

⚡Mistral: Mistral Small Creative is 27ms faster than Mistral: Mistral Small 4

Comparison Overview

Price (lower is better), Speed/Latency (lower is better), Performance (higher is better)

Detailed Comparison

Why choose between them?

Mistral: Mistral Small 4: Best value • Fastest

Mistral: Mistral Small Creative: Best value

Spec	Mistral: Mistral Small 4	Mistral: Mistral Small Creative
Provider	mistralai	mistralai
Input price / 1M tokens	Free	$0.10
Output price / 1M tokens	—	$0.30
Context window	262k tokens	33k tokens
Latency (p50)	27ms	—
Best benchmark score	—	—
Open source	No	No

Mistral: 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...

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Mistral: Mistral Small Creative

Mistral Small Creative is an experimental small model designed for creative writing, narrative generation, roleplay and character-driven dialogue, general-purpose instruction following, and conversational agents.

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