53% offMistral Small 4 API
Mistral AI·Vision
Mistral Small 4 — 119B MoE model unifying instruction following, reasoning, coding, and vision with 256K context.
Pricing
Cheapest live price, per 1 million tokens.
Input / 1M tokens
$0.150 OpenRouter
Output / 1M tokens
$0.600 OpenRouter
Cache read / 1M
Repeated prompt prefixes
Cache read is the discounted rate for repeated prompt prefixes (system prompts, agent context).
Capabilities · 7
Specifications
- Context window
- 256K
- Max output
- 33K
- Type
- Vision
- Creator
- Mistral AI
- Live sellers
- 11
- Requests / 24h
- 215
Price history · 60 days
Estimated monthly cost
30 days at the cheapest live price.
Quick start
OpenAI-compatible — change the base URL and key. Get a key from the dashboard.
from openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI(
base_url="https://api.qubax.ai/v1",
api_key="YOUR_QUBAX_API_KEY",
)
response = client.chat.completions.create(
model="mistral-small-4",
messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Hello!"}],
)
print(response.choices[0].message.content)About Mistral Small 4
Mistral Small 4 is a multimodal language model developed by Mistral AI. It's particularly well-suited for analyzing images, screenshots, and visual content, tackling complex, multi-step reasoning problems, orchestrating tool-using agents that call APIs and external services, producing structured outputs for reliable data extraction and handling large contexts of up to 256K tokens. Its 256K-token context window means you can pass in entire documents, codebases, or conversation histories without losing context. It can write up to 33K tokens in a single response.
As of Nov 4, 2026, Mistral Small 4 costs $0.070 per 1M input tokens and $0.281 per 1M output tokens on Qubax, versus $0.150 / $0.600 on OpenRouter (53% less on input). A typical 1,000 chat requests (2K tokens in, 500 out) come to about $0.28. 11 independent compute providers currently serve it, so requests fail over automatically. It handled 215 requests on Qubax in the last 24 hours. Pay with USDC, USDT, BTC, ETH or 350+ other coins — no credit card required.
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Frequently asked questions
How much does the Mistral Small 4 API cost?
On Qubax, Mistral Small 4 costs $0.070 per 1M input tokens and $0.281 per 1M output tokens. This is 53% cheaper than OpenRouter's price of $0.150 per 1M input tokens.
Is the Mistral Small 4 API compatible with OpenAI?
Yes. Qubax provides an OpenAI-compatible API. You can use Mistral Small 4 as a drop-in replacement by changing your base URL to https://api.qubax.ai/v1 and using your Qubax API key. It works with Cline, Cursor, OpenCode, Hermes Agent, and any tool that supports OpenAI APIs.
Why is Mistral Small 4 cheaper on Qubax than OpenRouter?
Qubax sources AI inference from an open compute marketplace on the Base blockchain where GPU providers compete on price. We pass the savings to you — 53% cheaper than OpenRouter's price for Mistral Small 4.
How do I pay for Mistral Small 4 API usage?
Qubax uses prepaid crypto credits. Top up with USDC, USDT, BTC, ETH, SOL or 350+ other coins and your balance is deducted as you use the API. No credit card or KYC required.
What is the context window of Mistral Small 4?
Mistral Small 4 supports a context window of 256K tokens, allowing you to process large documents, codebases, or long conversations in a single request.
What can I build with Mistral Small 4?
You can use Mistral Small 4 to analyze images and visual content, tackle complex multi-step reasoning tasks, build autonomous agents that call external tools and APIs, generate structured JSON output for data pipelines and process long documents and entire codebases. Because it's served through Qubax's OpenAI-compatible API, integration into existing apps, agents, or workflows takes just a few lines of code.
How fast and reliable is Mistral Small 4 on Qubax?
Responses stream token by token. 11 sellers serve it, so if one is slow or down the request moves to the next.
Mistral Small 4 vs Moondream: Moondream 3.1: which should I choose?
Mistral Small 4 by Mistral AI and Moondream: Moondream 3.1 by Other are both strong models in a similar price tier. Mistral Small 4 excels at complex reasoning and supports vision/image inputs. Moondream: Moondream 3.1 comes from a different lab and may have different strengths depending on your workload. On Qubax, Mistral Small 4 starts at $0.070/1M input tokens versus Moondream: Moondream 3.1's $0.135/1M — making Mistral Small 4 the more cost-effective option for high-volume workloads. Both are available on Qubax with crypto payments and OpenAI-compatible APIs, so you can try each and switch freely.
Can I use Mistral Small 4 for commercial projects?
Yes. Mistral Small 4 on Qubax can be used for commercial purposes. You own the outputs you generate. Qubax provides the API infrastructure — you bring your use case.
Why use Mistral Small 4 on Qubax?
53% cheaper
Providers compete on price — you get the cheapest healthy seller.
Pay with crypto
350+ coins (BTC, ETH, SOL, USDT, USDC). No card, no KYC.
OpenAI & Anthropic compatible
Drop-in base URL. Works with Cline, Cursor, Claude Code, OpenAI and Anthropic SDKs.