DeepSeek R1 vs Mistral Devstral Medium
Compare DeepSeek R1 by DeepSeek against Mistral Devstral Medium by Mistral AI, in 4 community votes, mistral devstral medium wins 100% of head-to-head duels, tested across 54 shared challenges. Updated May 2026.
Which is better, DeepSeek R1 or Mistral Devstral Medium?
Mistral Devstral Medium is the better choice overall, winning 100% of 4 blind community votes on Rival. DeepSeek R1 costs $0.55/M input tokens vs $0.4/M for Mistral Devstral Medium. Compare their real outputs side by side below.
Key Differences Between DeepSeek R1 and Mistral Devstral Medium
DeepSeek R1 is made by deepseek while Mistral Devstral Medium is from mistral. On pricing, DeepSeek R1 costs $0.55/M input tokens vs $0.4/M for Mistral Devstral Medium. In community voting, In 4 community votes, Mistral Devstral Medium wins 100% of head-to-head duels.
In 4 community votes, Mistral Devstral Medium wins 100% of head-to-head duels. Mistral Devstral Medium leads in Reasoning. Based on blind community voting from the Rival open dataset of 4+ human preference judgments for this pair.
Per 1M tokens
Mistral Devstral Medium is cheaper on both — 1.4× input, 1.1× output
Pick Mistral Devstral Medium. In 4 blind votes, Mistral Devstral Medium wins 100% of the time. That's not luck.
Mistral Devstral Medium particularly excels in Reasoning.
Style Comparison
DeepSeek R1 uses 4.3x more emoji
