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Mistral Small 4 vs gpt-oss-safeguard-20b
Live dataset updated 9/15/2026, 9:19:37 PM UTC
Open 1200×630 evidence receipt| Field | Mistral Small 4 Mistral AI | gpt-oss-safeguard-20b OpenAI |
|---|---|---|
| ModelCap position | #117 | #167 |
| Index score | 40.7 | 24.0 |
| Evidence | Measured1 public benchmark observation across 1 board | Inheritedfinetune of openai/gpt-oss-20b · fp4 (100%) |
| Input / 1M | $0.15 | $0.075 |
| Output / 1M | $0.60 | $0.30 |
| Pricing status | fresh | fresh |
| Context | 262K | 131K |
| Providers | 2 | 1 |
| Weight access | Open weights | Open weights |
Decision facts
- Mistral Small 4 is #117; gpt-oss-safeguard-20b is #167 on the same current language board.
- Index scores are 40.7 for Mistral Small 4 and 24.0 for gpt-oss-safeguard-20b. Their published uncertainty intervals overlap, so the rank difference alone does not establish a reliable capability advantage for your workload.
- Evidence differs: Mistral Small 4 is Measured; gpt-oss-safeguard-20b is Inherited.
- Listed output price per 1M tokens is $0.60 for Mistral Small 4 and $0.30 for gpt-oss-safeguard-20b. For 1,000 requests with 2,000 input and 500 output tokens each (2M input + 0.5M output), the listed-rate estimate is $0.60 for Mistral Small 4 versus $0.30 for gpt-oss-safeguard-20b. gpt-oss-safeguard-20b costs 50.0% less in this scenario. This excludes caching, batch discounts, prompt-length tiers, tool charges and retries; verify the selected endpoint before budgeting.
- Published context is 262,144 tokens for Mistral Small 4 and 131,072 for gpt-oss-safeguard-20b.
- ModelCap currently lists 2 providers for Mistral Small 4 and 1 for gpt-oss-safeguard-20b.
These are separate published fields, not a synthetic winner. ModelCap does not collapse price, access, context, and capability evidence into a hidden recommendation score.
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