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Mistral Small 4 vs GPT-4.1 Mini

For a typical chat reply (2,000 tokens in, 400 out), GPT-4.1 Mini costs 2.7× as much as Mistral Small 4: $1.44 against $0.54 per 1,000 requests at list price on 2026-09-28.

Mistral Small 4GPT-4.1 Mini
Input, per 1M tokens$0.15$0.40
Output, per 1M tokens$0.60$1.60
Context window262K1.05M
Classification or routing (600 tokens in, 10 out), per 1,000$0.096$0.256
Chat reply (2,000 in, 400 out), per 1,000$0.54$1.44
Retrieval-augmented answer (8,000 in, 500 out), per 1,000$1.50$4.00
Confidence signalnono
Tool callingyesyes

Which one should carry your traffic?

If Mistral Small 4 answers your requests as well as GPT-4.1 Mini, moving that traffic saves 63% 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.

Mistral Small 4 profile · GPT-4.1 Mini profile · Measure it on your traffic