Compare Claude 3 Opus by Anthropic against Mistral Devstral Small 1.1 by Mistral AI, tested across 12 shared challenges. Updated April 2026.
Claude 3 Opus and Mistral Devstral Small 1.1 are both competitive models. Claude 3 Opus costs $15/M input tokens vs $0.1/M for Mistral Devstral Small 1.1. Compare their real outputs side by side below.
Claude 3 Opus is made by anthropic while Mistral Devstral Small 1.1 is from mistral. On pricing, Claude 3 Opus costs $15/M input tokens vs $0.1/M for Mistral Devstral Small 1.1.
No community votes yet. On paper, Claude 3 Opus has the edge — bigger model tier, bigger context window, major provider backing.
Mistral Devstral Small 1.1 is 250x cheaper per token — worth considering if cost matters.
Mistral Devstral Small 1.1 uses 429.8x more bold
Ask them anything yourself
Some models write identically. You are paying for the brand.
178 models fingerprinted across 32 writing dimensions. Free research.
185x
price gap between models that write identically
178
models
12
clone pairs
32
dimensions
279 AI models invented the same fake scientist.
We read every word. 250 models. 2.14 million words. This is what we found.

Compare Claude 3 Opus by Anthropic against Mistral Devstral Small 1.1 by Mistral AI, tested across 12 shared challenges. Updated April 2026.
Claude 3 Opus and Mistral Devstral Small 1.1 are both competitive models. Claude 3 Opus costs $15/M input tokens vs $0.1/M for Mistral Devstral Small 1.1. Compare their real outputs side by side below.
Claude 3 Opus is made by anthropic while Mistral Devstral Small 1.1 is from mistral. On pricing, Claude 3 Opus costs $15/M input tokens vs $0.1/M for Mistral Devstral Small 1.1.
No community votes yet. On paper, Claude 3 Opus has the edge — bigger model tier, bigger context window, major provider backing.
Mistral Devstral Small 1.1 is 250x cheaper per token — worth considering if cost matters.
Mistral Devstral Small 1.1 uses 429.8x more bold
Ask them anything yourself
Some models write identically. You are paying for the brand.
178 models fingerprinted across 32 writing dimensions. Free research.
185x
price gap between models that write identically
178
models
12
clone pairs
32
dimensions
279 AI models invented the same fake scientist.
We read every word. 250 models. 2.14 million words. This is what we found.
