DeepSeek R1 vs Mistral Large
Compare DeepSeek R1 by DeepSeek against Mistral Large by Mistral AI, context windows of 128K vs 32K, tested across 53 shared challenges.
Our Verdict
DeepSeek R1
Mistral LargeRunner-up
No community votes yet. On paper, DeepSeek R1 has the edge — newer, bigger context window, major provider backing.
DeepSeek R1 is 11x cheaper per token — worth considering if cost matters.
Too close to call
API pricing
Cost per 1M tokens
DeepSeek R1
Input
$0.55
15× cheaper
Output
$2.19
11× cheaper
Mistral Large
Input
$8.00
Output
$24.00
DeepSeek R1 is cheaper on both — 15× input, 11× output
Writing DNA
Style Comparison
Similarity
66%
Mistral Large uses 7.1x more emoji
DeepSeek R1
Mistral Large
62%Vocabulary49%
15wSentence Length19w
0.52Hedging0.86
8.0Bold8.9
5.7Lists5.4
0.04Emoji0.31
0.62Headings1.01
0.28Transitions0.10
Based on 22 + 16 text responses
Research
What we learned reading every model
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