Mistral Small 4 vs GPT-4o-mini

Mistral Small 4 at $0.172 in and $0.690 out and GPT-4o-mini at $0.172 in and $0.690 out — per million tokens, from the same wallet.

Mistral Small 4

Mistral AI

0.14¢

for a client proposal

$0.172 in · $0.690 out / 1M

262K context · released 8 months ago

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GPT-4o-mini

OpenAI

0.14¢

for a client proposal

$0.172 in · $0.690 out / 1M

128K context · released July 2024

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Asking all both at once — identical prompt, identical context — costs about 0.28¢ for a typical client proposal.

At a glance

All 2 cost the same on input.
Largest context: Mistral Small 4 at 262K tokens — about 370 pages.

Cost per task

Estimated totals at the rates above. Solid bar is input, lighter bar is output.

Quick code fix

2K in · 500 out

Mistral Small 4

0.07¢

GPT-4o-mini

0.07¢

Draft a client proposal from notes

5K in · 800 out

Mistral Small 4

0.14¢

GPT-4o-mini

0.14¢

Context-heavy session (Alyph workspace)

155K in · 4K out

Mistral Small 4

2.9¢

GPT-4o-mini

needs 155K ctx

Analyze a 50-page legal contract

35K in · 1K out

Mistral Small 4

0.67¢

GPT-4o-mini

0.67¢

Large architecture refactor

250K in · 3K out

Mistral Small 4

4.5¢

GPT-4o-mini

needs 250K ctx

Solid part of each bar is input tokens, the lighter part is output. Models that don’t fit a task are marked instead of priced.

Cost vs Token Amount

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80% Input20% Output

Mistral Small 4

GPT-4o-mini

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Pricing

Mistral Small 4

GPT-4o-mini

Input / 1M tokens

$0.172

Output / 1M tokens

$0.690

Cached input / 1M

$0.017

$0.086

Specs

Mistral Small 4

GPT-4o-mini

Provider

Mistral AI

OpenAI

Released

8 months ago

July 2024

Context window

262K

128K

Max output

—

16K

Input

Text and Images

Text, Images, and Files

Output

Text

Reasoning

Shows its thinking

Answers directly

Knowledge cutoff

—

2023-10-31

Try it with real numbers

2K tokens in · 500 tokens out.

Mistral Small 4

Mistral AI

0.07¢

for this task

50% input · 50% output

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GPT-4o-mini

OpenAI

0.07¢

for this task

50% input · 50% output

Full pricing →

All 2, same prompt and context: 0.14¢. That is the entire cost of the comparison.

Your $5 welcome credit covers about 3,623 of these.

Which should you pick?

For long documents, Mistral Small 4 has the largest context window here — 262K tokens.

On price they are identical: about 0.14¢ for a typical task each.

If you want to watch the model think, Mistral Small 4 shows reasoning; the other answers directly.

Or don’t pick. Send the identical prompt to all both, read the answers side by side, and keep the winner. How to run a fair bake-off →

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Questions, answered

Which is cheaper, Mistral Small 4 or GPT-4o-mini?

On a typical client proposal (5K tokens in, 800 out) they cost the same — about 0.14¢ each. Compare them on context and capabilities instead.

Which has the largest context window?

Mistral Small 4 — 262K tokens, about 370 pages.

Can I run Mistral Small 4 and GPT-4o-mini side by side on Alyph?

Yes — that is what Alyph is built for: the identical prompt with identical context to all 2, answers rendered side by side, billed from one wallet. This exact combination costs about 0.28¢ for a typical task.

Ask both at once

Identical prompt, identical context, answers side by side — about 0.28¢ for a typical client proposal. Free to start, with $5 of credit.