Side-by-side comparison of Gemma 4 E4B Instruct (Google DeepMind · United States) and Mistral Small 4 (Mistral AI · France) for self-hosted deployment of the open-weight model. Gemma 4 E4B Instruct is rated conditional; Mistral Small 4 is EU-ready. They part ways on commercial use: Gemma 4 E4B Instruct is "Unrestricted", Mistral Small 4 is "Yes".
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| Summary | ||
| Verdict | Conditional Based on published licence terms, Gemma 4 E4B is an edge-optimised multimodal variant under pure Apache 2.0 with no prohibited-use carve-outs. Audio input (30s) and on-device deployment push GDPR biometric, AI Act emotion-recognition, and Art. 25 data-protection-by-design obligations entirely onto the integrator with no Google-side telemetry or kill-switch. | EU-ready Unified model folding Instruct, reasoning (Magistral) and code (Devstral) into a single 119B MoE under Apache 2.0. 6.5B active params, 256K context, 24 languages, toggleable reasoning effort. Strongest permissive EU option at this scale. |
| Last reviewed | 2026-04-17 | 2026-04-15 |
| Open-weight | ||
| Licence | Apache 2.0 | Apache 2.0 |
| Commercial use | Unrestricted | Yes |
| Training data | Domain-level summary | Undisclosed |
| Origin | United States | EU |
| Performance & pricing? | ||
| Quality index | 15/100 | 19/100 |
| Speed | — | 147 tok/s |
| Blended price | — | $0.26/M |
| Context window | — | — |
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