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...
Model details →Mistral: Mistral Small 4 vs Qwen: Qwen3.8 27B
Mistral: Mistral Small 4 wins on 3 of 6 axes — pricing and capability skew in its favour for most workloads.
Qwen3.8 27B is an open-weight dense vision-language model from Qwen. It is suited for coding, professional workflows, research, multimodal interaction, and long-running agent tasks, with flexible thinking that can be...
Model details →Side-by-side comparison
| Capability | Mistral: Mistral Small 4 | Qwen: Qwen3.8 27B | Winner |
|---|---|---|---|
| Context window Maximum number of input tokens the model can attend to in a single request. | 262K | 262K | Tie |
| Input price (per 1M) Cost per million input tokens billed by the provider. | $0.15 | $0.45 | 🏆 Mistral: Mistral Small 4 |
| Output price (per 1M) Cost per million output tokens billed by the provider. | $0.60 | $3.20 | 🏆 Mistral: Mistral Small 4 |
| Tool / function calling First-class support for emitting structured tool calls. | Yes | — | 🏆 Mistral: Mistral Small 4 |
| Vision input Accepts image inputs alongside text. | Yes | Yes | Tie |
| Reasoning mode Internal chain-of-thought / extended-thinking support. | Yes | Yes | Tie |
Frequently asked questions
Is Mistral: Mistral Small 4 better than Qwen: Qwen3.8 27B?
Mistral: Mistral Small 4 wins on 3 of 6 axes — pricing and capability skew in its favour for most workloads.
What's the price difference between Mistral: Mistral Small 4 and Qwen: Qwen3.8 27B?
Input: $0.15 vs $0.45 per 1M tokens. Output: $0.60 vs $3.20 per 1M tokens.
What context windows do Mistral: Mistral Small 4 and Qwen: Qwen3.8 27B support?
Mistral: Mistral Small 4 supports up to 262K tokens. Qwen: Qwen3.8 27B supports up to 262K tokens.
Do both Mistral: Mistral Small 4 and Qwen: Qwen3.8 27B support tool calling?
Mistral: Mistral Small 4: yes. Qwen: Qwen3.8 27B: not advertised.