Claude Sonnet 4 vs Mistral Devstral Small 1.1
Compare Claude Sonnet 4 by Anthropic against Mistral Devstral Small 1.1 by Mistral AI, in 6 community votes, claude sonnet 4 wins 60% of head-to-head duels, tested across 54 shared challenges.
Web Design: Claude Sonnet 4 wins 67% of votes
Our Verdict
Claude Sonnet 4Winner
Mistral Devstral Small 1.1Runner-up
Pick Claude Sonnet 4. In 6 blind votes, Claude Sonnet 4 wins 60% of the time. That's not luck.
Claude Sonnet 4 particularly excels in Web Design. Mistral Devstral Small 1.1 is 50x cheaper per token — worth considering if cost matters.
Clear winner
API pricing
Cost per 1M tokens
Claude Sonnet 4
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
49%
Claude Sonnet 4 uses 87.9x more emoji
Claude Sonnet 4
Mistral Devstral Small 1.1
62%Vocabulary50%
111wSentence Length17w
0.40Hedging0.56
5.0Bold4.3
9.3Lists5.7
0.88Emoji0.00
2.16Headings0.05
0.33Transitions0.34
Based on 17 + 21 text responses
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