Mistral Small 4 vs Qwen3.8 Max: side-by-side summary

Mistral Small 4 and Qwen3.8 Max are available through the OpenRouter API, so switching between them takes a model slug change rather than a new integration.

Mistral Small 4, from Mistral AI, has a 262,144-token context window and is priced at $0.15/M tokens input, $0.60/M tokens output on OpenRouter.

Qwen3.8 Max, from Qwen, has a 1,000,000-token context window and is priced at $2/M tokens input, $6/M tokens output on OpenRouter.

Context window

• Mistral Small 4: 262,144 tokens
• Qwen3.8 Max: 1,000,000 tokens

Price

• Mistral Small 4: $0.15/M tokens input, $0.60/M tokens output
• Qwen3.8 Max: $2/M tokens input, $6/M tokens output

Provided by

• Mistral Small 4: Mistral AI
• Qwen3.8 Max: Qwen

• Mistral Small 4 model details, providers and pricing
• Qwen3.8 Max model details, providers and pricing