Side by side pricing and context for Mistral Small and GPT-4o mini. Rates are curated catalog values with last verified dates on each model page.
Mistral Small
Low-cost Mistral for classification and light chat. Useful high-volume default inside the Mistral family.
Input $0.060 / Output $0.180 per 1M
Context 128K · Approx
GPT-4o mini
Inexpensive OpenAI chat model for customer support and simple tools. Popular cheap baseline. Pair with Exact token counts when budgeting.
Input $0.150 / Output $0.600 per 1M
Context 128K · Exact (o200k_base)
Quick take
- Mistral Small is cheaper on input in this catalog snapshot.
- Mistral Small is cheaper on output in this catalog snapshot.
- Both last verified on their model pages (2026-08-02 / 2026-08-02).
Rate table
| Metric | Mistral Small | GPT-4o mini |
|---|---|---|
| Input / 1M | $0.060 | $0.150 |
| Output / 1M | $0.180 | $0.600 |
| Cached input / 1M | n/a | $0.075 |
| Context | 128K | 128K |
| Tokenizer | Approx | Exact (o200k_base) |