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Mistral Small 4
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by Mistral
OPEN WEIGHTSLOCALAPILONG CONTEXTPAIDREASONING
RANKED #143 OF 232 ASSISTANTS · OVERALL #227 OF 6,567 · VIBE SCORE 5.7 · 45 VOICES
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...
HAPPY9.5
14 mentions
SAD5.5
4 mentions
VIBE TRAJECTORY
26 weeks · 61 voices
HONEYMOON FADING
Early praise is cooling off in recent weeks.
HOW TO USE IT
Open weights. You can use a hosted service, or download it and run it yourself, free.
RUN IT ON YOUR OWN MACHINE
Open weights: download Mistral Small 4 once and it's yours. No subscription, no rate limits, works offline.
119B MoE with 6.5B active parameters, a Q4 quant needs about 70 GB memory
- BARE MINIMUM
Desktop PC with 96 GB DDR5 RAM and CPU offloading
96 GB RAM
~$450 USEDQ4_K_M running mostly on CPU RAM, ~3 tok/s, 8k context
- SWEET SPOT
Apple Mac Studio M2 Ultra (128 GB Unified Memory)
128 GB UNIFIED MEMORY
~$3100 USEDQ4_K_M fully in unified memory, ~22 tok/s, 32k context
- FULL POWER
Dual NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada workstation (2x 48 GB)
96 GB VRAM
~$13500 USEDFP8 / Q8 full context offloaded to VRAM, ~45 tok/s, 128k context
LEARN HOW TO SET IT UP
WILL MY BOX RUN MISTRAL SMALL 4?
The three cards above are researched picks. Search the machine you actually have — we only say yes if it should reply at a usable speed, not just load the weights and crawl.
HARDWARE PICKS & PRICES ARE RESEARCHED FROM THE LIVE WEB AND REFRESHED AUTOMATICALLY. TREAT THEM AS BALLPARK, NOT GOSPEL.
WHAT CAN YOU ACTUALLY DO WITH IT?
Everyday jobs on each of those rigs: how long Mistral Small 4 takes, and how good the crowd says it is at that kind of work.
| THE JOB | BARE MINIMUMDesktop PC with 96 GB DDR5 RAM and CPU offloading | SWEET SPOTApple Mac Studio M2 Ultra (128 GB Unified Memory) | FULL POWERDual NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada workstation (2x 48 GB) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Write an emaila paragraph or two, drafted from a one-line brief | ~2.8 MIN★★★★★ | ~23 S★★★★★ | ~11 S★★★★★ |
| Summarize a documenta long report boiled down to the points that matter | ~8.3 MIN★★★★★ | ~68 S★★★★★ | ~33 S★★★★★ |
| Build a websitea small landing page, markup and styles together | ~44 MIN★★★★★ | ~6.1 MIN★★★★★ | ~3 MIN★★★★★ |
| Build a backendan API with routes, storage and tests | ~2.3 HR★★★★★ | ~19 MIN★★★★★ | ~9.3 MIN★★★★★ |
| Build a gamea playable browser game in one file | ~83 MIN★★★★★ | ~11 MIN★★★★★ | ~5.6 MIN★★★★★ |
STARS ARE THE COMMUNITY SCORE FOR THAT KIND OF WORK, DOCKED FOR HOW SQUASHED THE WEIGHTS GET AT EACH TIER. TIMES ARE COMPUTED FROM RESEARCHED SPEEDS. BALLPARK, NOT GOSPEL.
WHAT THE INTERNET SAYS
Not enough discussion about Mistral Small 4 yet to call it. We found 45 posts but people did not say much either way.
27 POSTS · 18 COMMENTS · X · REDDIT · LEMMY · DEV FORUMS · GITHUB
PEOPLE LOVE
- No fan mail yet. The crowd is still warming up.
PEOPLE COMPLAIN ABOUT
- No complaints yet. The internet is still looking for one. Suspicious.
LOOKING FOR AN ALTERNATIVE?
Other models the crowd has fully reviewed, starting with multimodal models like this one.
Grok 4.6
Qwen3.8 27B
Gemini 3.7 Flash> SOURCES (12)
- REDDIT · 2026-03-16 · 408 UPVOTESIntroducing Mistral Small 4
Introducing Mistral Small 4
- REDDIT · 2026-03-16 · 106 UPVOTESLeanstral.
Leanstral.
- REDDIT · 2026-03-20 · 98 UPVOTESMistral Small 4 document understanding benchmarks, tested via API. Does better than GPT-4.1
Mistral Small 4 document understanding benchmarks, tested via API. Does better than GPT-4.1
- REDDIT · 2026-05-13 · 67 UPVOTESComment in r/MistralAI
Comment in r/MistralAI
- REDDIT · 2026-04-18 · 62 UPVOTESMistral small 4 model, night & day results: Mistral without skills vs with design skills configured in vibe cli
Mistral small 4 model, night & day results: Mistral without skills vs with design skills configured in vibe cli
- REDDIT · 2026-03-25 · 56 UPVOTESMistral: A Tale of two AIs - APIs for the Glory, Le Chat is Waterloo
Mistral: A Tale of two AIs - APIs for the Glory, Le Chat is Waterloo
- REDDIT · 2026-04-15 · 52 UPVOTESRunning Mistral Small 4 through Hermes agent harness + Open WebUI absolutely demolishes Le Chat imo.
Running Mistral Small 4 through Hermes agent harness + Open WebUI absolutely demolishes Le Chat imo.
- REDDIT · 2026-04-20 · 47 UPVOTESI Benchmarked All Latest Mistral Models on Tool Calling (ToolCall-15) – Surprising Winner
I Benchmarked All Latest Mistral Models on Tool Calling (ToolCall-15) – Surprising Winner
- REDDIT · 2026-03-23 · 47 UPVOTES[VIDEO] Mistral Small 4 first impressions.
[VIDEO] Mistral Small 4 first impressions.
- REDDIT · 2026-06-14 · 36 UPVOTESWhat are your issues with Mistral?
What are your issues with Mistral?
- LEMMY · 2026-03-16 · 33 UPVOTESIntroducing Mistral Small 4 Mistral AI
Introducing Mistral Small 4 Mistral AI
- REDDIT · 2026-04-15 · 31 UPVOTESBuilt a voice menu assistant for my local pizza spot Mistral Small 4 + Voxtral did the heavy lifting
Built a voice menu assistant for my local pizza spot Mistral Small 4 + Voxtral did the heavy lifting