Mistral · Open weights
Mistral Small 4 119B Thinking
Mistral Small 4 with reasoning enabled (reasoning_effort=high). A hybrid MoE model with deep step-by-step reasoning for complex prompts, coding, and multi-step problem solving.
- Reasoning
- Tools
- Vision
- Structured output
- Input
- Text, Images
- Output
- Text
- Reasoning effort
- none · high
- Discovery tier
- Open weights
Pricing
USD per 1M tokens- Input
- $0.40
- Output
- $1.40
Reference prices as published by the model provider. API example
Specifications
- Context window
- 262.1K
- Max output
- 16.4K
- Average output (7 days)
- 997 tokens
- Longer than 70% of 465 models
Side by side
Mistral Small 4 119B Thinking compared
Specifications, prices, speed and benchmark scores next to each other. Benchmarks below show every compared model too.
| Mistral Small 4 119B ThinkingMistralThis model | GPT 5.4 MiniOpenAIRemove | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Mistral | OpenAI |
| Discovery tier | Open weights | Efficient |
| Added | Mar 17, 2026 | Mar 17, 2026 |
| Limits | ||
| Context window | 262.14K | 400KBest |
| Max output | 16.38K | 128KBest |
| Average output | 997 tokens | 172 tokens |
| Pricing, USD per 1M tokens | ||
| Input | $0.40Best | $0.75 |
| Output | $1.40Best | $4.50 |
| Cache read | — | $0.075 |
| Performance | ||
| Throughput | 123.6 tok/s | 133.7 tok/sBest |
| Time to first token | 1.7 s | 1.2 sBest |
| Request success (24h) | 95.9% | 100.0%Best |
| Benchmark indexes | ||
| Intelligence Index | 11.3Best | 11.1 |
| Coding Index | 26.6 | — |
| Capabilities | ||
| Reasoning | Yes | Yes |
| Tools | Yes | Yes |
| Vision | Yes | Yes |
| Structured output | Yes | Yes |
| PDF input | No | Yes |
| Reasoning effort | none, high | none, low, medium, high, xhigh |
Public evaluations
Benchmarks
Independent evaluation results, with how each score ranks among the models in the Noumen catalog.
- Mistral Small 4 119B Thinking
- GPT 5.4 Mini
Intelligence Index
- Mistral Small 4 119B Thinking11.3
- GPT 5.4 Mini11.1
Mistral Small 4 119B Thinking: Better than 25% of 326 scored models
Indexes
Coding Index
Composite of the coding evaluations
- Mistral Small 4 119B Thinking: 26.6
- GPT 5.4 Mini: —
Agentic work
AutomationBench-AA
Workflow automation, penalized for guardrail violations
- Mistral Small 4 119B Thinking: 1.0%
- GPT 5.4 Mini: —
AutomationBench-AA tasks completed
Workflows finished end to end without a guardrail violation
- Mistral Small 4 119B Thinking: 0.0%
- GPT 5.4 Mini: —
AA-Briefcasev1.1
Agentic knowledge work, rated head to head
- Mistral Small 4 119B Thinking: 241 Elo
- GPT 5.4 Mini: —
GDPval-AAv2.1
Economically valuable occupational tasks, rated head to head
- Mistral Small 4 119B Thinking: 362 Elo
- GPT 5.4 Mini: 589 EloTop
Document reasoning
GDP.pdf
Professional reasoning over PDF documents, all-pass rate
- Mistral Small 4 119B Thinking: 0.0%
- GPT 5.4 Mini: —
AA-LCRv1.1
Reasoning across long documents
- Mistral Small 4 119B Thinking: 49.7%Top
- GPT 5.4 Mini: 37.0%
MLCR-AA
Long-context reasoning over medical records
- Mistral Small 4 119B Thinking: 1.7%
- GPT 5.4 Mini: —
Reasoning and knowledge
Humanity’s Last Exam
Expert-level questions across academic fields
- Mistral Small 4 119B Thinking: 9.9%Top
- GPT 5.4 Mini: 5.9%
GPQA Diamond
Graduate-level science questions
- Mistral Small 4 119B Thinking: 76.9%Top
- GPT 5.4 Mini: 60.6%
IFBench
Following precise output instructions
- Mistral Small 4 119B Thinking: 48.2%Top
- GPT 5.4 Mini: 38.8%
Coding
Terminal-Benchv4.0
Practical software engineering in a terminal
- Mistral Small 4 119B Thinking: 0.0%
- GPT 5.4 Mini: —
SciCode
Scientific computing in Python
- Mistral Small 4 119B Thinking: 38.8%
- GPT 5.4 Mini: —
Legacy evaluations
Terminal-Bench Hard
Earlier terminal task suite
- Mistral Small 4 119B Thinking: 17.4%
- GPT 5.4 Mini: 18.2%Top
τ²-Bench Telecom
Tool use in a customer-support simulation
- Mistral Small 4 119B Thinking: 41.2%Top
- GPT 5.4 Mini: 23.4%
AA-LCR (unversioned)
Long-context reasoning, earlier grading
- Mistral Small 4 119B Thinking: 49.7%Top
- GPT 5.4 Mini: 37.0%
Scores from Artificial Analysis, updated Oct 26, 2026. Artificial Analysis
- Mistral Small 4 119B Thinking
- GPT 5.4 Mini
| Leaderboard | Mistral Small 4 119B Thinking | GPT 5.4 Mini |
|---|---|---|
| FrontierMath v2 (Tiers 1–3) | Not in top 20 | #12 · 51.2% |
| GPQA Diamond | Not in top 20 | #15 · 86.9% |
Ranks among Noumen catalog models on Epoch AI leaderboards. Only top-20 placements are listed.Epoch AI
Live routing data
Performance and reliability
Recent averages across requests routed for this model. Your own speed depends on prompt length, reasoning effort and load.
- Throughput
- 123.6 tok/s
- Faster than 70% of 251 models
- Time to first token
- 1.7 s
- Quicker than 83% of 251 models
- Prompt cache hits
- 23.6%
- Request success (24h)
- 95.9%
- Reliable
Cache hits are the share of input tokens recently served from a prompt cache across all requests. They are not a forecast of your own hit rate.
- Healthy (98% or more)
- Degraded (90–98%)
- Down (under 90%)
- No requests
Developers
Use it through the API
Noumen’s API is OpenAI-compatible: any Chat Completions client works with a base URL and a key.
curl https://www.noumen.xyz/api/v1/chat/completions \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $NOUMEN_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"model": "mistralai/mistral-small-4-119b-2603:thinking",
"reasoning_effort": "none",
"messages": [{ "role": "user", "content": "Explain this stack trace." }]
}'import os
from openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI(base_url="https://www.noumen.xyz/api/v1", api_key=os.environ["NOUMEN_API_KEY"])
reply = client.chat.completions.create(
model="mistralai/mistral-small-4-119b-2603:thinking",
messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Explain this stack trace."}],
)
print(reply.choices[0].message.content)Mistral
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