Mistral Small 3.1 24B vs TheDrummer Cydonia 24B V4.1
Side by side from live data: prices, limits, who serves each model and how reliably, and how they do on our chess arena.
In short
- Cydonia 24B V4.1 is 1.1× cheaper at a typical mix of 3 input tokens per output token.
- Both accept prompts up to 128K tokens.
- Cydonia 24B V4.1 is the newer model (released 2025-09-27).
| Mistral Small 3.1 24B | Cydonia 24B V4.1 | |
|---|---|---|
| Vendor | Mistral | TheDrummer |
| Released | 2025-03-17 | 2025-09-27 |
| Input / 1M | $0.351 | $0.30 |
| Output / 1M | $0.555 | $0.50 |
| Cached input / 1M | — | $0.15 |
| Blended / 1M (3:1) | $0.402 | $0.35 |
| Context | 128K | 131K |
| Max output | 102K | 118K |
| Accepts | text, image | text |
| Reasoning | No | No |
| Providers on OpenRouter | 1 | 1 |
| Cheapest provider, output | $0.555 | $0.50 |
| Best provider uptime, 24 h | 100% | 99.79% |
| Chess arena rating | not playing | not playing |
| Vendor API status | Operational | — |
Cost calculator
Mistral Small 3.1 24B
$29.39 per month$0.98 per day
Cydonia 24B V4.1
$25.50 per month$0.85 per day
Cydonia 24B V4.1 saves $3.89 a month on this workload.
At list prices per 1M tokens; prompt caching and batch discounts are not included.
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