# Introducing Mistral Small 4

DevFeed: [Introducing Mistral Small 4](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/introducing-mistral-small-4-7082.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://mistral.ai/news/mistral-small-4/>)

Published: 2026-03-16T21:00:00Z

Content type: release

Language: en

Sources: [Mistral AI Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/mistral-ai-blog.md>)

Topics: [Artificial Intelligence](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai.md>), [multimodal](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/multimodal.md>), [Mixture of Experts (MoE)](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/mixture-of-experts-moe.md>), [Open Source Models & Datasets](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/open-source-models-datasets.md>), [agentic-coding](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/agentic-coding.md>), [AI Development](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai-development.md>), [Nemotron](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/nemotron.md>), [long-context](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/long-context.md>), [Low Latency](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/low-latency.md>), [Nvidia](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/nvidia.md>)

Tags: [agentic-coding](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/agentic-coding.md>), [ai](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai.md>), [context-window](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/context-window.md>), [latency](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/latency.md>), [mixture-of-experts-moe](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/mixture-of-experts-moe.md>), [models](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/models.md>), [multimodal](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/multimodal.md>), [nemotron](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/nemotron.md>), [net](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/net.md>), [nvidia](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/nvidia.md>), [open](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/open.md>), [open-source](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/open-source.md>)

## AI overview

Mistral announces Mistral Small 4, a hybrid open model that combines instruction following, reasoning, multimodal understanding, and agentic coding in one system. It accepts text and image inputs, uses a Mixture-of-Experts architecture with a 256k context window, offers configurable reasoning effort, and reports lower latency and higher throughput than Mistral Small 3.

## Source excerpt

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