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Mistral Small 4 vs Qwen2.5 VL 32B Instruct

Mistral Small 4 (Mistral AI) and Qwen2.5 VL 32B Instruct (Qwen) compared on the ModelCap Index, API price, context window, provider availability, weight access and every public benchmark board they share. Figures are the same ones shown on the live rankings; nothing here is a hidden score.

Snapshot as of 15 September 2026

As of 15 September 2026, Mistral Small 4 holds the stronger ModelCap Index position (#117 vs #118).

Which should you choose?

Choose Mistral Small 4 if…

  • you want the stronger overall ModelCap Index position — #117 against #118 (40.7 vs 40.5 points).
  • you want provider choice — 2 listed API providers against 0.
  • you want the more recently listed model — Mistral Small 4 was listed 16 March 2026, Qwen2.5 VL 32B Instruct 21 March 2025.

Choose Qwen2.5 VL 32B Instruct if…

  • ModelCap publishes no field on which Qwen2.5 VL 32B Instruct leads Mistral Small 4 for this pair.

Mistral Small 4 vs Qwen2.5 VL 32B Instruct: specs, pricing and context

Specification comparison of Mistral Small 4 and Qwen2.5 VL 32B Instruct
FieldMistral Small 4Mistral AIQwen2.5 VL 32B InstructQwen
ModelCap Index position#117#118
Index score40.740.5
EvidenceMeasuredEstimated
Input price / 1M tokens$0.15Unlisted
Output price / 1M tokens$0.60Unlisted
Context window262K tokens— tokens
Max output tokens210K—
API providers listed20
Weight accessOpen weightsOpen weights
Input modalitiesText, ImageText, Image
First listed16 March 202621 March 2025
PublisherMistral AIQwen

Evidence: 1 public benchmark observation across 1 board · publisher-corpus-prior over 194 held-out anchors (18%); launch card against 2 resolved peers on 4 rows (82%); exceeds every named peer on 2 of 4 rows; optimism haircut 0 from cross-lab-probe; shrunk 2.1 up toward the measured corpus. Prices are the lowest listed API offer per million tokens observed on the OpenRouter catalogue.

Benchmark scores: Mistral Small 4 vs Qwen2.5 VL 32B Instruct

Public benchmark boards where Mistral Small 4 or Qwen2.5 VL 32B Instruct has a published result
BoardMistral Small 4Qwen2.5 VL 32B InstructLeads
AA Intelligence IndexArtificial Analysis11.5intelligence-index:v4.3:reasoning-unspecified—Only one result

Scores are the sources' own published figures for each model's best evaluated configuration; ModelCap never re-runs a benchmark.

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Mistral Small 4 vs Qwen2.5 VL 32B Instruct: common questions

Is Mistral Small 4 better than Qwen2.5 VL 32B Instruct?

Mistral Small 4 ranks higher on the ModelCap Index as of 15 September 2026: #117 against #118. That is a capability ranking built from public benchmark evidence with published uncertainty; whether it is "better" for you also depends on price, context and where you can run it. Their published uncertainty intervals overlap, so the rank difference alone does not establish a reliable capability advantage for your workload.

Is Mistral Small 4 cheaper than Qwen2.5 VL 32B Instruct?

At least one of the two has no listed API price on ModelCap right now, so no price comparison is made.

Which has the bigger context window, Mistral Small 4 or Qwen2.5 VL 32B Instruct?

Both publish a 262K-token context window.

Which is better for coding, Mistral Small 4 or Qwen2.5 VL 32B Instruct?

The two models do not share a coding benchmark board on ModelCap yet, so no head-to-head coding score is published; the ModelCap Index position is the closest overall signal.

Are Mistral Small 4 and Qwen2.5 VL 32B Instruct open-weight models?

Mistral Small 4: Open weights. Qwen2.5 VL 32B Instruct: Open weights. Open weights mean the checkpoint can be downloaded and self-hosted under its licence; API-only models are available solely through hosted endpoints.

Where can I run Mistral Small 4 and Qwen2.5 VL 32B Instruct?

ModelCap currently lists 2 API providers for Mistral Small 4 and 0 for Qwen2.5 VL 32B Instruct, from the OpenRouter catalogue snapshot the site serves; each model page lists the providers and their prices.

How current is this Mistral Small 4 vs Qwen2.5 VL 32B Instruct comparison?

Every figure comes from the sealed ModelCap dataset published 15 September 2026; the page re-renders within a minute of each data refresh, and the ModelCap Index positions are the same ones shown on the live rankings.

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