The newest Mistral Small model is Mistral Small 4, released on March 16, 2026. It has been 222 days since then, longer than the line's usual gap of 135 days.
How long it has been since the last release against the line's usual gap and its recent ones — the rhythm, not a date.
Latest: Mistral Small 4 · Mar 16, 2026
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Mistral Small 4 merges Mistral's Magistral reasoning, Pixtral image and Devstral coding models into one Apache 2.0 model with 119B total and 6B active parameters, switchable reasoning effort and a 256k-token context window, double Mistral Small 3.2's 128k.
Compared with Mistral Small 3.2 · the model it replaces
Reads twice as much text in one go
Context window — how much text the model can read at once
256k tokens
▲ up from 128k in Mistral Small 3.2 · twice as much
What developers pay to use it through Mistral's API
API price per 1M tokens — input / output
$0.15 / $0.60
✦ launch price on Mistral's API