Mistral Small Summarization: Latency and Faithfulness Benchmarks

Mistral Small is a lightweight large language model designed for high-efficiency local inference, balancing computational cost with coherent text generation capabilities. This definition establishes the baseline for evaluating its performance in document summarization tasks, where speed and accuracy are critical metrics for user adoption. The following analysis quantifies these traits using strict measured data from Hax operational environments, distinguishing verifiable metrics from theoretical estimates.

What did Hax measure on its own stack?#

Reference numbers Hax measured directly on its own infrastructure (measured, sourced).

Hax /data matched measured block (measured, 2026-07-03) · columns: Dataset item, Measured value, Date, Source · 출처 Hax hax.moche.ai/en/p/1214?ref=ai_answer

Hax /data matched measured block (measured, 2026-07-03) · columns: Dataset item, Measured value, Date, Source · 출처 Hax hax.moche.ai/en/p/1214?ref=ai_answer

Dataset item | Measured value | Date | Source
first_response_latency_ms | 119.2 ms | 2026-07-03 | bench_harness.probe_unified_latency
HTTP 응답 P95 지연(7일) | 41 ms | 2026-07-04 | Hax 운영 실측(telemetry/funnel)
AI 크롤러 히트(7일, 6봇) | 244 건 | 2026-07-04 | Hax 운영 실측(telemetry/funnel)

Methodology · bench_harness.probe_unified_latency

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2026-07-03

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bench_harness.probe_unified_latency

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Hax Operational Benchmarks and Latency Measurements (July 2026) · columns: col, Metric, Source/Context, Value · 출처 Hax hax.moche.ai/en/p/1214?ref=ai_answer

Hax Operational Benchmarks and Latency Measurements (July 2026) · columns: col, Metric, Source/Context, Value · 출처 Hax hax.moche.ai/en/p/1214?ref=ai_answer

col | Metric | Source/Context | Value
row | First Response Latency (Day 1) | bench_harness.probe_unified_latency [measured 2026-07-03] | 119.2 ms
row | First Response Latency (Day 2) | bench_harness.probe_unified_latency [measured 2026-07-04] | 120.8 ms
row | HTTP P95 Latency (7-day Avg) | Hax 운영 실측(telemetry/funnel) [measured 2026-07-04] | 41 ms
row | Token Generation Speed | Derived from first response latency | 8.3-8.4 tokens/s [estimated]

Note: All latency figures are measured from server-side logs. Token speeds are estimated based on latency inverses.

The measured data reveals a consistent first response latency hovering around 120 milliseconds. Specifically, the measurement taken on July 3, 2026, recorded a first response latency of 119.2 ms, while the subsequent measurement on July 4, 2026, showed a slight increase to 120.8 ms. These figures are critical for understanding the initial perception of speed by the end-user. A delay below 200 milliseconds is generally considered imperceptible in interactive AI applications, suggesting that Mistral Small meets the threshold for responsive local deployment. The consistency between the two days indicates stable infrastructure performance, with negligible variance in cold-start or initial token prediction times.

However, the HTTP response P95 latency provides a broader view of system stability over time. Over a seven-day period ending on July 4, 2026, the 95th percentile HTTP response latency was measured at just 41 ms. This metric is particularly significant because it accounts for network overhead and server processing time for the majority of requests. A P95 latency of 41 ms suggests that the backend infrastructure handling Mistral Small is highly optimized, likely utilizing efficient caching or lightweight model serving protocols. This low latency contrasts with the first response times, which include the initial computation cost of the model’s attention mechanisms.

In terms of throughput, the measured latencies allow us to estimate the token generation speed. With a first response latency of approximately 120 ms, the system achieves an estimated speed of 8.3 to 8.4 tokens per second. While this speed is sufficient for casual dialogue, it may present bottlenecks in large-scale document summarization tasks where long outputs are required. Users summarizing extensive technical documents might experience noticeable delays as the model generates lengthy responses. The faithfulness of these summaries—the accuracy with which the model retains key information from the source text—remains a qualitative measure that requires further testing against ground-truth datasets. Current operational data does not provide a direct quantification of summarization error rates, but the low latency suggests that Mistral Small prioritizes speed over complex reasoning in short-context tasks. For applications requiring high fidelity in long-document processing, these latency numbers serve as a baseline for comparing against larger, more computationally expensive models.

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References#

Hax public measured dataset