Claude 3 Sonnet vs Mistral Devstral Small 1.1
Compare Claude 3 Sonnet by Anthropic against Mistral Devstral Small 1.1 by Mistral AI, in 4 community votes, mistral devstral small 1.1 wins 100% of head-to-head duels, tested across 13 shared challenges. Updated April 2026.
Which is better, Claude 3 Sonnet or Mistral Devstral Small 1.1?
Mistral Devstral Small 1.1 is the better choice overall, winning 100% of 4 blind community votes on Rival. Claude 3 Sonnet costs $3/M input tokens vs $0.1/M for Mistral Devstral Small 1.1. Compare their real outputs side by side below.
Key Differences Between Claude 3 Sonnet and Mistral Devstral Small 1.1
Claude 3 Sonnet is made by anthropic while Mistral Devstral Small 1.1 is from mistral. On pricing, Claude 3 Sonnet costs $3/M input tokens vs $0.1/M for Mistral Devstral Small 1.1. In community voting, In 4 community votes, Mistral Devstral Small 1.1 wins 100% of head-to-head duels.
In 4 community votes, Mistral Devstral Small 1.1 wins 100% of head-to-head duels. Mistral Devstral Small 1.1 leads in Reasoning. Based on blind community voting from the Rival open dataset of 4+ human preference judgments for this pair.
Pick Mistral Devstral Small 1.1. In 4 blind votes, Mistral Devstral Small 1.1 wins 100% of the time. That's not luck.
Mistral Devstral Small 1.1 particularly excels in Reasoning. Mistral Devstral Small 1.1 is 50x cheaper per token — worth considering if cost matters.
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