Mistral Small 4 Review: One Model, Three Jobs
Mistral Small 4 packs reasoning, vision, and agentic coding into a 119B MoE under Apache 2.0 - a serious small-model contender at a price that's hard to ignore.
Small models
Small Language Model Leaderboard: Best Under 10B
Rankings of the best small language models under 10 billion parameters, comparing Phi-4, Gemma 3, Qwen 3.5, and more across key benchmarks.
Qwen 3.5 Small Series Ships Four Models From 0.8B to 9B
Alibaba completes the Qwen 3.5 lineup with four small models - 0.8B, 2B, 4B, and 9B - all natively multimodal, 262K context, Apache 2.0. The 9B outperforms last-gen Qwen3-30B and beats GPT-5-Nano on vision benchmarks.
