Granite 4.0 Micro vs Mistral Nemo

Granite 4.0 Micro at $0.020 in and $0.129 out and Mistral Nemo at $0.022 in and $0.035 out — per million tokens, from the same wallet.

Granite 4.0 Micro

Ibm Granite

0.02¢

for a client proposal

$0.020 in · $0.129 out / 1M

131K context · released October 2025

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Mistral Nemo

Mistral AI

0.01¢

for a client proposal

$0.022 in · $0.035 out / 1M

131K context · released July 2024

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Asking all both at once — identical prompt, identical context — costs about 0.03¢ for a typical client proposal.

At a glance

Cheapest input: Granite 4.0 Micro at $0.020 per million tokens.
Cheapest output: Mistral Nemo at $0.035 per million tokens.
Largest context: Mistral Nemo at 131K tokens — about 190 pages.

Cost per task

Estimated totals at the rates above. Solid bar is input, lighter bar is output.

Quick code fix

2K in · 500 out

Granite 4.0 Micro

0.01¢

Mistral Nemo

0.01¢

Draft a client proposal from notes

5K in · 800 out

Granite 4.0 Micro

0.02¢

Mistral Nemo

0.01¢

Context-heavy session (Alyph workspace)

155K in · 4K out

Granite 4.0 Micro

needs 155K ctx

Mistral Nemo

needs 155K ctx

Analyze a 50-page legal contract

35K in · 1K out

Granite 4.0 Micro

0.08¢

Mistral Nemo

0.08¢

Large architecture refactor

250K in · 3K out

Granite 4.0 Micro

needs 250K ctx

Mistral Nemo

needs 250K ctx

Solid part of each bar is input tokens, the lighter part is output. Models that don’t fit a task are marked instead of priced.

Cost vs Token Amount

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Granite 4.0 Micro

Mistral Nemo

Adjust the ratio slider to change how output tokens influence the final price for equivalent workloads.

Pricing

Granite 4.0 Micro

Mistral Nemo

Input / 1M tokens

$0.020

$0.022

Output / 1M tokens

$0.129

$0.035

Specs

Granite 4.0 Micro

Mistral Nemo

Provider

Ibm Granite

Mistral AI

Released

October 2025

July 2024

Context window

131K

Max output

131K

16K

Input

Text

Output

Text

Reasoning

Answers directly

Knowledge cutoff

—

2024-04-30

Try it with real numbers

2K tokens in · 500 tokens out.

Granite 4.0 Micro

Ibm Granite

0.01¢

for this task

38% input · 62% output

Full pricing →

Mistral Nemo

Mistral AI

0.01¢

for this task

72% input · 28% output

Full pricing →

All 2, same prompt and context: 0.02¢. That is the entire cost of the comparison.

Your $5 welcome credit covers about 30,404 of these.

Which should you pick?

For long documents, Mistral Nemo has the largest context window here — 131K tokens.

On price, Mistral Nemo is the cheapest of the two on a typical task, at about 0.01¢.

Or don’t pick. Send the identical prompt to all both, read the answers side by side, and keep the winner. How to run a fair bake-off →

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Questions, answered

Which is cheaper, Granite 4.0 Micro or Mistral Nemo?

On a typical client proposal (5K tokens in, 800 out): Mistral Nemo at 0.01¢; Granite 4.0 Micro at 0.02¢. Long prompts can change the order when long-context rates apply.

Which has the largest context window?

Mistral Nemo — 131K tokens, about 190 pages.

Can I run Granite 4.0 Micro and Mistral Nemo side by side on Alyph?

Yes — that is what Alyph is built for: the identical prompt with identical context to all 2, answers rendered side by side, billed from one wallet. This exact combination costs about 0.03¢ for a typical task.

Ask both at once

Identical prompt, identical context, answers side by side — about 0.03¢ for a typical client proposal. Free to start, with $5 of credit.