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| API pricingUSD per 1M tokens · lower wins | ||
Input priceWhat you pay for everything you send the model — your question, plus any documents or earlier conversation you include with it. | — | $0.15 |
Output priceWhat you pay for the text the model writes back. It is normally the dearer half: producing an answer costs more than reading one. | — | $0.60 |
Cheapest inputLowest input rate across third-party providers, excluding the lab itself. The cheapest endpoint may run a quantised build or a shorter context — see "Available from" on the model page. | $0.02DeepInfra | $0.15Mistral |
Cheapest outputLowest output rate across third-party providers, excluding the lab itself. May come from a different provider than the cheapest input. | $0.04DeepInfra | $0.60Mistral |
| Benchmarks | ||
BullshitBench v2Nonsense detection — Given a confidently-worded but nonsensical prompt, does the AI spot that it makes no sense and push back — instead of playing along and inventing an answer? The score is how often it clearly called out the nonsense. Higher is better. | 14% | 6% |
| Overview | ||
| Company | Meta | Mistral |
| Release date | Jul 23 2024 | Mar 16 2026 |
| Access | Open Weight | Closed |
| Model details | View model | View model |
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LLaMA 3.1 leads Mistral Small 4 on 1 of the 1 benchmark they both report (BullshitBench v2). Only Mistral Small 4 has a verified first-party API price: $0.15 per million input tokens and $0.60 per million output tokens. No pay-as-you-go API rate is tracked for LLaMA 3.1. LLaMA 3.1 shipped 601 days before Mistral Small 4, so benchmark comparisons should account for the intervening progress.
LLaMA 3.1 is open weight, while Mistral Small 4 is closed.
On BullshitBench v2, LLaMA 3.1 leads at 14% vs Mistral Small 4 at 6%.