Model comparison
Hy4 preview vs Mistral Small
Hy4 preview is the stronger model overall, scoring 45.3 to 33.4 on the Noometry Index. Mistral Small costs 4.3× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Hy4 preview's lead doesn't matter for your workload.
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- The widest gap is in math, where Hy4 preview leads 55.7 to 16.4.
- Mistral Small is cheaper at $0.15 / $0.60 per million input/output tokens, against $0.75 / $2.25 for Hy4 preview.
- Hy4 preview accepts more context: 1.05M tokens versus 262K.
Side by side
| Hy4 preview | Mistral Small | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Tencent | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 45.3 | 33.4 |
| Released | 2026-08-28 | 2024-02-26 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | 1.05M | 262K |
| Max output | 64K | 256K |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.75 | $0.15 |
| Output $ / M tokens | $2.25 | $0.60 |
| Results tracked | 3 | 39 |
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Category by category
Coding Hy4 preview leads
Hy4 preview: 51.6 (#38), Mistral Small: 34.0 (#247)
| Benchmark | Hy4 preview | Mistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena WebDev | 1632 | — |
| SciCode | — | 26.5% |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 36.1% |
| LiveBench Coding | — | 36.2% |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1362 |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 46.6% |
| ALE-Bench | — | 497.62 |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Hy4 preview: —, Mistral Small: 28.1 (#93)
| Benchmark | Hy4 preview | Mistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | — | 37.1% |
Reasoning Hy4 preview leads
Hy4 preview: 31.9 (#79), Mistral Small: 19.8 (#250)
| Benchmark | Hy4 preview | Mistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 37.8% |
| NYT Connections (extended) | 68.2% | — |
| CritPt | — | 0% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | — | 44.8% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1335 |
| DTBench | — | 70.9% |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | — | 53.7% |
| LMCA | — | 20.6% |
| LiveBench | — | 44% |
Math Hy4 preview leads
Hy4 preview: 55.7 (#42), Mistral Small: 16.4 (#293)
| Benchmark | Hy4 preview | Mistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 5.8% |
| ProofBench | 75% | — |
| LiveBench Math | — | 39.9% |
| LMArena Math | — | 1341 |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 46.8% |
Knowledge Not comparable
Hy4 preview: —, Mistral Small: 31.0 (#222)
| Benchmark | Hy4 preview | Mistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | — | 47.5% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 5.1% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1291 |
| MMLU | — | 68.7% |
Multimodal Not comparable
Hy4 preview: —, Mistral Small: 33.5 (#96)
| Benchmark | Hy4 preview | Mistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | — | 1142 |
Multilingual Not comparable
Hy4 preview: —, Mistral Small: 45.5 (#169)
| Benchmark | Hy4 preview | Mistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1315 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1340 |
| LMArena French | — | 1337 |
| LMArena German | — | 1340 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1275 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1259 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1324 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1346 |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Hy4 preview: —, Mistral Small: 66.4 (#209)
| Benchmark | Hy4 preview | Mistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Instruction Following | — | 63.7% |
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1310 |
Long Context Not comparable
Hy4 preview: —, Mistral Small: 40.4 (#156)
| Benchmark | Hy4 preview | Mistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1327 |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Hy4 preview: —, Mistral Small: 52.5 (#171)
| Benchmark | Hy4 preview | Mistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1338 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1305 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1344 |
| LiveBench Language | — | 30.5% |
Frequently asked questions
Is Hy4 preview better than Mistral Small?
Hy4 preview is the stronger model overall, scoring 45.3 to 33.4 on the Noometry Index. Mistral Small costs 4.3× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Hy4 preview's lead doesn't matter for your workload.
Which is cheaper, Hy4 preview or Mistral Small?
Mistral Small is cheaper. It lists at $0.15 per million input tokens and $0.60 per million output tokens; Hy4 preview lists at $0.75 and $2.25.
Is Hy4 preview or Mistral Small better for coding?
Hy4 preview scores higher on coding benchmarks: 51.6 versus 34.0 in the Noometry coding category.
Which has the bigger context window?
Hy4 preview does, with 1.05M tokens against 262K.
How many benchmarks do Hy4 preview and Mistral Small share?
0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Hy4 preview has 3 scored results on Noometry and Mistral Small has 39.