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Mistral Small 4 vs Llama Guard 4 12B
Side-by-side specs, pricing & capabilities · Updated April 2026
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M Mistral Small 4 | L Llama Guard 4 12B | |
|---|---|---|
| Organization | Mistral AI | Meta |
| OpenTools Score | 51 136 | |
| Family | Mistral | Llama |
| Status | Current | Current |
| Release Date | Mar 2026 | Apr 2025 |
| Context Window | 262K tokens | 164K tokens |
| Input Price | $0.15/M tokens | $0.18/M tokens |
| Output Price | $0.60/M tokens | $0.18/M tokens |
| Pricing Notes | Cache read: $0.0150/M tokens | — |
| Capabilities | textvisioncodetool-use | textvisioncode |
| API Identifier | mistralai/mistral-small-2603 | meta-llama/llama-guard-4-12b |
| Benchmarks | ||
| MMLU-Pro | 68.5mistral | — |
| HumanEval | 78.5mistral | — |
| MGSM | 72.3mistral | — |
| GPQA Diamond | 58.8mistral | — |
| LiveCodeBench | 64mistral | — |
| View Mistral Small 4 | View Llama Guard 4 12B | |
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| Model | Input | Output | Total / mo | vs Best |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Llama Guard 4 12BCheapest | $0.18 | $0.09 | $0.27 | — |
| Mistral Small 4 | $0.15 | $0.30 | $0.45 | +67% |
Mistral AI
Mistral Small 4
Mistral Small 4 is a multimodal llm from Mistral AI. Supports up to 262,144 token context window. Achieves 76.5% on MMLU. Available from $0.15/M input tokens.
Meta
Llama Guard 4 12B
Llama Guard 4 12B is a multimodal llm from Meta. Supports up to 163,840 token context window. Available from $0.18/M input tokens.
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