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Command A vs Mistral Small 4

For a typical chat reply (2,000 tokens in, 400 out), Command A costs 17× as much as Mistral Small 4: $9.00 against $0.54 per 1,000 requests at list price on 2026-09-28.

Command AMistral Small 4
Input, per 1M tokens$2.50$0.15
Output, per 1M tokens$10.00$0.60
Context window256K262K
Classification or routing (600 tokens in, 10 out), per 1,000$1.60$0.096
Chat reply (2,000 in, 400 out), per 1,000$9.00$0.54
Retrieval-augmented answer (8,000 in, 500 out), per 1,000$25.00$1.50
Confidence signalnono
Tool callingnoyes

Which one should carry your traffic?

If Mistral Small 4 answers your requests as well as Command A, moving that traffic saves 94% on chat-shaped requests. Averages cannot tell you whether it does for your requests. Mistral Small 4 does not expose a confidence signal through OpenRouter, so Gimbix would test it as a full replacement rather than a first answer.

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