AI Model Comparison
Side-by-side comparison of pricing, context window, benchmarks, capabilities, and license. Every figure comes from the developer's own pages, last checked on ; each model's page lists its sources. A figure we could not source shows as a dash.
Model A — LG AI Research
EXAONE 4.5 (33B) is LG AI Research’s first open-weight vision-language model, released on April 9, 2026, adding a dedicated visual encoder to the EXAONE 4.0 framework; LG reports strength in document understanding and Korean contextual reasoning.
Model B — Mistral AI
Mistral Small 4 is a mixture-of-experts model from Mistral AI, released on March 16, 2026, that brings Mistral’s instruct, reasoning (Magistral), multimodal (Pixtral) and agentic coding (Devstral) capabilities into one model, with configurable reasoning effort.
| Property | EXAONE 4.5 (33B) | Mistral Small 4 |
|---|---|---|
| Released | Apr 9, 2026 | Mar 16, 2026 |
| Developer | LG AI Research | Mistral AI |
| Type | multimodal | multimodal |
| License | open-weight | open-weight |
| Context window | 262,144 | — |
| Parameters | 33B (including a 1.2B vision encoder) | 119B total, 6B active per token (8B including embedding and output layers); Mixture-of-Experts with 128 experts, 4 active |
| Developer status | — | — |
| Input $/M tokens | — | $0.15 |
| Output $/M tokens | — | $0.60 |
Bold green values indicate the winner on that dimension where comparison is meaningful (lower price wins; bigger context wins; more open license wins; newer date wins). Prices are the ones each developer lists today; a model it no longer prices has none.
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