Claude Sonnet 3.6 (2022-10-22) vs Mistral Devstral Small 1.1
Compare Claude Sonnet 3.6 (2022-10-22) by Anthropic against Mistral Devstral Small 1.1 by Mistral AI, tested across 54 shared challenges.
Our Verdict
Claude Sonnet 3.6 (2022-10-22)
Mistral Devstral Small 1.1Runner-up
No community votes yet. On paper, Claude Sonnet 3.6 (2022-10-22) has the edge — bigger model tier, bigger context window, major provider backing.
Mistral Devstral Small 1.1 is 50x cheaper per token — worth considering if cost matters.
Too close to call
API pricing
Cost per 1M tokens
Claude Sonnet 3.6 (2022-10-22)
Input
$3.00
Output
$15.00
Mistral Devstral Small 1.1
Input
$0.10
30× cheaper
Output
$0.30
50× cheaper
Mistral Devstral Small 1.1 is cheaper on both — 30× input, 50× output
Writing DNA
Style Comparison
Similarity
56%
Mistral Devstral Small 1.1 uses 12.8x more bold
Claude Sonnet 3.6 (2022-10-22)
Mistral Devstral Small 1.1
66%Vocabulary50%
74wSentence Length17w
0.72Hedging0.56
0.3Bold4.3
8.9Lists5.7
0.00Emoji0.00
0.06Headings0.05
0.09Transitions0.34
Based on 21 + 21 text responses
Research
What we learned reading every model
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