Mistral Small 4 (free)
mistral/mistral-small-4
Mistral Small 4 is a compact open-weight model, free through SwitchGate promotional capacity. It is suited for prototyping, guardrail models and light chat. Rate limits apply.
Pricing & limits
Provider list price, passed through untouched. The only SwitchGate fee is 4.9% when you top up credits.
| Provider | Mistral |
|---|---|
| Input price | $0 / 1M tokens |
| Output price | $0 / 1M tokens |
| Context window | 128K tokens |
| Added to catalog | 2026-08-08 |
| Tokens routed (30d) | 122.6B (placeholder) |
| Cache hits | 0 credits, always |
- Same governance as every model: per-user budgets, model locks, burnable keys and the kill switch apply automatically.
- Cross-provider failover: route around outages to sibling models with one retry policy.
- Exact cost per call on one ledger, whoever on your team calls it.
Call it in one line
from openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI(
base_url="https://api.switchgate.ai/v1",
api_key="sg-live-…",
)
r = client.chat.completions.create(
model="mistral/mistral-small-4",
messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Bonjour!"}],
)Works with any OpenAI-compatible SDK — JavaScript, Go, cURL and more on the quickstart. Compare quality and cost on benchmarks and rankings.
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Free trial credits, list-price pass-through, and a ledger that shows exactly what each call cost.