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Start with Mistral Small 4 and Qwen2.5 72B Instruct, or choose any two current ranked language models. Compare capability evidence, price, context, provider availability, and weight access without pretending one field decides every use case.

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Mistral Small 4 vs Qwen2.5 72B Instruct

Live dataset updated 9/15/2026, 9:19:37 PM UTC

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Factual comparison of Mistral Small 4 and Qwen2.5 72B Instruct
Field
Mistral Small 4

Mistral AI

ModelCap position#117#178
Index score40.720.8
EvidenceMeasured1 public benchmark observation across 1 boardMeasured2 public benchmark observations across 2 boards
Input / 1M$0.15$0.36
Output / 1M$0.60$0.40
Pricing statusfreshfresh
Context262K33K
Providers22
Weight accessOpen weightsRestricted license

Decision facts

  • Mistral Small 4 is #117; Qwen2.5 72B Instruct is #178 on the same current language board.
  • Index scores are 40.7 for Mistral Small 4 and 20.8 for Qwen2.5 72B Instruct. Their published uncertainty intervals overlap, so the rank difference alone does not establish a reliable capability advantage for your workload.
  • Both positions use Measured evidence.
  • Listed output price per 1M tokens is $0.60 for Mistral Small 4 and $0.40 for Qwen2.5 72B Instruct. 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 $0.92 for Qwen2.5 72B Instruct. Mistral Small 4 costs 34.8% 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 32,768 for Qwen2.5 72B Instruct.
  • Weight access differs: Mistral Small 4 is open; Qwen2.5 72B Instruct is restricted.

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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