$ diff mistral-large-4 hy4-preview
Mistral Large 4 vs Hy4 preview
Values come from Mistral Large 4 and Hy4 preview, where each is cited to its source. This page states no benchmark result and ranks neither model — it puts two published specifications next to each other. Where a lab has not published a figure, the row says so rather than guessing.
Mistral AIMistral Large 4
- context
- 1M
- weights
- —
- $/M in
- $1.36
- $/M out
- $4.18
- context
- 1M
- weights
- open
- $/M in
- $0.834
- $/M out
- $2.501
What actually differs
- Context window
- Identical — both accept 1M tokens, so context length is not a reason to pick either.
- Input price
- Hy4 preview at $0.834/M against $1.36/M — 1.6× cheaper to feed.
- Output price
- Hy4 preview at $2.501/M against $4.18/M — 1.7× cheaper to generate. Output dominates the bill on most agentic workloads, where the model writes far more than it reads.
- Recency
- Mistral Large 4 shipped 39 days after Hy4 preview (2026-10-06 vs 2026-08-28).
Full spec
| Attribute | Mistral Large 4 | Hy4 preview |
|---|---|---|
| Developer | Mistral AI | Tencent |
| Released | 2026-10-06 | 2026-08-28 |
| Context window | 1M | over 1,000,000 |
| Pricing | $1.36/M input · $4.18/M output (announcement) | $0.834/M input · $2.501/M output |
| License | not recorded | Apache-2.0 |
| Availability | Mistral Studio API preview; weights promised by end of October 2026 | Hugging Face (BF16 + FP8), ModelScope, GitCode, CNB, Tencent Cloud TokenHub, OpenRouter, WorkBuddy, CodeBuddy, Yuanbao, ima |