Question 1

Which is cheaper, GPT-4.1 Nano or Mistral Small?

Accepted Answer

GPT-4.1 Nano has cheaper input tokens ($0.10/M), while Mistral Small has cheaper output tokens ($0.30/M). The best value depends on your input-to-output ratio.

Question 2

Which is faster, GPT-4.1 Nano or Mistral Small?

Accepted Answer

GPT-4.1 Nano is faster at 150 tokens/sec with a TTFT of 130ms, compared to Mistral Small at 120 tokens/sec and 160ms TTFT.

Question 3

Which has a bigger context window, GPT-4.1 Nano or Mistral Small?

Accepted Answer

GPT-4.1 Nano has a 1048K token context window, which is larger Mistral Small's 128K context window.

Question 4

Which is better for coding, GPT-4.1 Nano or Mistral Small?

Accepted Answer

Mistral Small has a higher coding ELO of 1160 compared to GPT-4.1 Nano's 1150, making it the stronger choice for code generation and programming tasks.

Feature	GPT-4.1 Nano	Mistral Small
Provider	OpenAI	Mistral
Input Price / 1M tokens	$0.100	$0.150
Output Price / 1M tokens	$0.400	$0.600
Context Window	1.047576M	128K
Max Output Tokens	32,768	8,192
Arena ELO	1,180	1,185
Coding ELO	1,150	1,160
TTFT (ms)	130	160
Tokens/sec	150	120
Multimodal	Yes	No
JSON Mode	Yes	Yes
Function Calling	Yes	Yes
Vision	Yes	No

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