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.
Reasoning: Mistral Devstral Medium wins 100% of votes
Our Verdict
Mistral Devstral MediumWinner
DeepSeek R1Runner-up
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.
Clear winner
API pricing
Cost per 1M tokens
DeepSeek R1
Input
$0.55
Output
$2.19
Mistral Devstral Medium
Input
$0.40
1.4× cheaper
Output
$2.00
1.1× cheaper
Mistral Devstral Medium is cheaper on both — 1.4× input, 1.1× output
Writing DNA
Style Comparison
Similarity
58%
DeepSeek R1 uses 4.3x more emoji
DeepSeek R1
Mistral Devstral Medium
62%Vocabulary50%
15wSentence Length17w
0.52Hedging0.56
8.0Bold4.5
5.7Lists5.3
0.04Emoji0.00
0.62Headings0.19
0.28Transitions0.32
Based on 22 + 21 text responses
Research
What we learned reading every model
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