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Mistral Small 4 vs Qwen3.5-9B

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Factual comparison of Mistral Small 4 and Qwen3.5-9B
Field	Mistral Small 4 Mistral AI	Qwen3.5-9B Qwen
ModelCap position	#97	#96
Index score	42.0	42.2
Evidence	Measured1 public benchmark observation across 1 board	Estimatedpublisher-corpus-prior over 180 held-out anchors (31%); launch card against 3 resolved peers on 10 rows (69%); exceeds every named peer on 4 of 10 rows; optimism haircut 0.6 from cross-lab-probe; shrunk 3.8 up toward the measured corpus
Input / 1M	$0.15	$0.10
Output / 1M	$0.60	$0.15
Pricing status	fresh	fresh
Context	262K	262K
Providers	2	6
Weight access	Open weights	Open weights

Decision facts

Mistral Small 4 is #97; Qwen3.5-9B is #96 on the same current language board.
Index scores are 42.0 for Mistral Small 4 and 42.2 for Qwen3.5-9B. 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; Qwen3.5-9B is Estimated.
Listed output price per 1M tokens is $0.60 for Mistral Small 4 and $0.15 for Qwen3.5-9B. 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 $0.27 for Qwen3.5-9B. Qwen3.5-9B costs 54.2% 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 262,144 for Qwen3.5-9B.
ModelCap currently lists 2 providers for Mistral Small 4 and 6 for Qwen3.5-9B.

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