DeepSeek R1 vs Mistral Small 4
Compare DeepSeek R1 by DeepSeek against Mistral Small 4 by Mistral AI, context windows of 128K vs 262K, tested across 52 shared challenges.
Our Verdict
DeepSeek R1
Mistral Small 4
No community votes yet. On paper, these are closely matched - try both with your actual task to see which fits your workflow.
Mistral Small 4 is 3.6x cheaper per token — worth considering if cost matters.
Too close to call
API pricing
Cost per 1M tokens
DeepSeek R1
Input
$0.55
Output
$2.19
Mistral Small 4
Input
$0.15
3.7× cheaper
Output
$0.60
3.6× cheaper
Mistral Small 4 is cheaper on both — 3.7× input, 3.6× output
Writing DNA
Style Comparison
Similarity
67%
Mistral Small 4 uses 4.4x more emoji
DeepSeek R1
Mistral Small 4
62%Vocabulary50%
15wSentence Length18w
0.52Hedging0.58
8.0Bold9.0
5.7Lists5.6
0.04Emoji0.19
0.62Headings1.10
0.28Transitions0.12
Based on 22 + 23 text responses
Research
What we learned reading every model
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