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Mistral 4 Small vs GLM 5 Turbo

Reddit r/LocalLLaMA / 3/17/2026

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Key Points

  • GLM 5 Turbo is described as quite slow, while Mistral 4 Small is described as super fast.
  • Mistral 4 Small is reported to be about 10x cheaper for actual answers compared with GLM 5 Turbo.
  • GLM 5 is described as having a mix of high intelligence and being dumb, whereas Mistral 4 Small feels roughly on a Qwen3.5 level and provides short, to-the-point answers.
  • When asked about obsolete scripts, Mistral 4 Small corrected itself after being asked to delete them, clarifying not to delete items prematurely; overall it is considered a good, cheap workhorse model.

What are your experiences?

Mine, kilocode, just some quick tests:
- GLM 5 "Turbo" is quite slow, Mistral 4 Small is super fast
- Mistral seems to be 10x cheaper for actual answers
- GLM 5 has a weird mix of high intelligence and being dumb that irritates me, whereas this Mistral model feels roughly on a Qwen3.5 level, answers with short answers and to the point

M4S managed to correct itself when i asked about obsolete scripts in a repo: Told me "those 4x are obsolete". Asked it to delete them then and it took another look, realized they weren't completely made up of dead code and advised against deleting them now.

Seems to be a good, cheap workhorse model

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