Model comparison
Mistral Small 4 vs Qwen3.6 Max Preview
Qwen3.6 Max Preview has enough public results to be ranked (#36); Mistral Small 4 does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.
Last verified . 0 shared benchmarks.
Mistral AI
Alibaba (Qwen)Summary
- The widest gap is in reasoning, where Qwen3.6 Max Preview leads 40.8 to 21.2.
- Mistral Small 4 is cheaper at $0.075 / $0.30 per million input/output tokens, against $1.30 / $7.80 for Qwen3.6 Max Preview.
- Mistral Small 4 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Mistral Small 4 | Qwen3.6 Max Preview | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Mistral AI | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 30.2 | 51.1 |
| Released | — | 2026-04-20 |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |
| Context window | 262K | 262K |
| Max output | 210K | 66K |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.075 | $1.30 |
| Output $ / M tokens | $0.30 | $7.80 |
| Results tracked | 1 | 29 |
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Category by category
Coding Not comparable
Mistral Small 4: —, Qwen3.6 Max Preview: 48.6 (#50)
| Benchmark | Mistral Small 4 | Qwen3.6 Max Preview |
|---|---|---|
| SWE-bench Verified | — | 76.7% |
| LMArena WebDev | — | 1482 |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1472 |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Mistral Small 4: —, Qwen3.6 Max Preview: —
| Benchmark | Mistral Small 4 | Qwen3.6 Max Preview |
|---|---|---|
| Vending-Bench 2 | — | 4,254 |
Reasoning Qwen3.6 Max Preview leads
Mistral Small 4: 21.2, Qwen3.6 Max Preview: 40.8 (#47)
| Benchmark | Mistral Small 4 | Qwen3.6 Max Preview |
|---|---|---|
| SimpleBench | — | 63% |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 40.5% | — |
| NYT Connections (extended) | — | 74.1% |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 20% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1457 |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | — | 19% |
| DTBench | — | 87.2% |
| LMCA | — | 42.5% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 149.27 |
Math Not comparable
Mistral Small 4: —, Qwen3.6 Max Preview: 52.2 (#40)
| Benchmark | Mistral Small 4 | Qwen3.6 Max Preview |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 91.1% |
| LMArena Math | — | 1465 |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | — | 23.1% |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1) | — | 4.2% |
Knowledge Not comparable
Mistral Small 4: —, Qwen3.6 Max Preview: 57.6 (#35)
| Benchmark | Mistral Small 4 | Qwen3.6 Max Preview |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | — | 87.4% |
| SimpleQA Verified | — | 52% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1476 |
Multilingual Not comparable
Mistral Small 4: —, Qwen3.6 Max Preview: 54.3 (#46)
| Benchmark | Mistral Small 4 | Qwen3.6 Max Preview |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1436 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1487 |
| LMArena French | — | 1449 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1444 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1452 |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Mistral Small 4: —, Qwen3.6 Max Preview: 75.8 (#51)
| Benchmark | Mistral Small 4 | Qwen3.6 Max Preview |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1437 |
Long Context Not comparable
Mistral Small 4: —, Qwen3.6 Max Preview: 44.6 (#59)
| Benchmark | Mistral Small 4 | Qwen3.6 Max Preview |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1457 |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Mistral Small 4: —, Qwen3.6 Max Preview: 64.0 (#58)
| Benchmark | Mistral Small 4 | Qwen3.6 Max Preview |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1447 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1435 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1456 |
Frequently asked questions
Is Mistral Small 4 better than Qwen3.6 Max Preview?
Qwen3.6 Max Preview has enough public results to be ranked (#36); Mistral Small 4 does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.
Which is cheaper, Mistral Small 4 or Qwen3.6 Max Preview?
Mistral Small 4 is cheaper. It lists at $0.075 per million input tokens and $0.30 per million output tokens; Qwen3.6 Max Preview lists at $1.30 and $7.80.
Which has the bigger context window?
Both accept 262K tokens.
How many benchmarks do Mistral Small 4 and Qwen3.6 Max Preview share?
0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Mistral Small 4 has 1 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3.6 Max Preview has 29.