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Mistral Small 4 vs Step 3.7 Flash
Live dataset updated 9/22/2026, 10:37:09 PM UTC
Open 1200×630 evidence receipt| Field | Mistral Small 4 Mistral AI | Step 3.7 Flash StepFun |
|---|---|---|
| ModelCap position | #97 | #96 |
| Index score | 54.1 | 54.2 |
| Evidence | Measured1 public benchmark observation across 1 board | Estimated3 reported rows against measured corpus ladders (20%); global-corpus-prior over 209 held-out anchors (17%); measured predecessor stepfun/step-3.5-flash less the succession penalty (63%); shrunk 0.6 up toward the measured corpus |
| Input / 1M | $0.15 | $0.20 |
| Output / 1M | $0.60 | $1.15 |
| Pricing status | fresh | fresh |
| Context | 262K | 262K |
| Providers | 1 | 3 |
| Weight access | Open weights | Open weights |
Decision facts
- Mistral Small 4 is #97; Step 3.7 Flash is #96 on the same current language board.
- Index scores are 54.1 for Mistral Small 4 and 54.2 for Step 3.7 Flash. 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; Step 3.7 Flash is Estimated.
- Listed output price per 1M tokens is $0.60 for Mistral Small 4 and $1.15 for Step 3.7 Flash. 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 $0.97 for Step 3.7 Flash. Mistral Small 4 costs 38.5% 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 Step 3.7 Flash.
- ModelCap currently lists 1 providers for Mistral Small 4 and 3 for Step 3.7 Flash.
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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