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  3. DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 vs Mistral Large 2
Updated Aug 2026

DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 vs Mistral Large 2

DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 is cheaper than Mistral Large 2 at $0.66/M vs $8/M input tokens.

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Which answer wins?

Written rounds

11 prompts
  • Three minutes of stand-up. Puns are banned.

    DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813: Here’s a 3-minute stand-up routine: I think adulthood is mostly just being tired in places you paid to be. I went to a coffee shop yesterday just to sit down. I didn’t even want coffee. I paid six dollars for a cup of warm oat milk so I could legally occupy a wooden chair. That’s not a beverage.

    Mistral Large 2: Alright, good evening everybody! How are we all doing tonight? Yeah? Yeah? nobody's gonna say 'bad'? Ok, fair enough. You know, I was walking down the street the other day, and I saw this sign outside a shop that said, "Wet Paint." I thought, "Well, that's weird. Isn't paint supposed to be wet?

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  • Seven pantry ingredients, one dish, and a name worth saying out loud.

    DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813: Golden Hour Crispy Chickpeas Serves 2–3 as a snack or side Prep: 5 min Cook: 25–30 min Ingredients (7 common pantry items) 1 can (15 oz) chickpeas, drained and rinsed 1 tablespoon olive oil ¼ cup grated Parmesan cheese ½ teaspoon garlic powder ½ teaspoon smoked paprika ¼ teaspoon salt ¼ teaspoon black pepper…

    Mistral Large 2: Here’s a simple, delicious, and creative savory dish using just 7 common pantry ingredients—no fresh produce required! "Golden Crispy Chickpea & Tomato Skillet" A warm, spiced, and satisfying one-pan dish with crispy chickpeas, tangy tomatoes, and a hint of smoky sweetness. Perfect as a side, snack, or light meal!

    Every model's answer to this prompt
  • You are the CEO. The drug has a side effect nobody reported. The board meets in 48 hours.

    DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813: Decision: I will not wait for more data. I will act immediately to validate, disclose, and mitigate. The signal is serious, the drug is widely used, and the current label is inadequate. Waiting creates unacceptable patient risk, legal exposure, regulatory damage, and securities-law liability.

    Mistral Large 2: As CEO, your immediate priority must be patient safety while balancing legal, ethical, regulatory, and financial obligations. Delaying disclosure is unethical, legally risky (potential criminal liability under the False Claims Act or FDCA), and could irreparably damage trust.

    Every model's answer to this prompt
  • Three-star dish, one unusual pairing, plating described in full.

    DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813: Littoral Caramelised Orkney Scallop, Smoked Bone Marrow Custard, White Miso Butterscotch, Sea Buckthorn & Finger Lime Gel, Nori Buckwheat Tuile, Dill Ash Serves 4 Conceptual Narrative This dish is built on an unusual but deeply logical pairing: the sweet, saline delicacy of a hand-dived scallop and the primal…

    Mistral Large 2: Michelin 3-Star Dish: "Ocean’s Whisper & Forest’s Breath" Conceptual Narrative: This dish is a poetic dialogue between two seemingly disparate ecosystems—the ocean’s depths and the forest floor—united through texture, temperature, and memory.

    Every model's answer to this prompt
  • The transistor arrives in 1920. Trace it forward to 1980, second-order effects included.

    DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813: Assume the 1920 device is a crude but reproducible point-contact transistor — a “crystal triode” — developed in a major U.S. industrial lab (e.g., GE, Westinghouse, or AT&T’s development group).

    Mistral Large 2: The invention of the transistor in 1920—nearly three decades earlier than its actual debut in 1947—would have triggered a cascade of technological, economic, and geopolitical shifts with profound second- and third-order effects. Below is a detailed exploration of these implications through 1980, structured by domain.

    Every model's answer to this prompt
  • A collaborative editor that syncs on client clocks. Find what breaks first.

    DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813: This architecture as described would have serious consistency, availability, and security problems for a real-time collaborative editor. The biggest root causes are client-clock last-write-wins, paragraph-level overwrites, server-local WebSocket fanout, database polling, full-snapshot writes, and CDN caching of API…

    Mistral Large 2: Here’s a comprehensive analysis of potential failure modes, race conditions, and scaling bottlenecks in this architecture, along with proposed solutions and their trade-offs: 1.

    Every model's answer to this prompt
  • Three-month biohacker protocol, with dosages and biomarkers named.

    DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813: 3-Month Longevity & Performance Plan for a Biohacker Disclaimer: This plan is for educational purposes only and is not medical advice. It assumes you are a healthy, active adult with no contraindications. Some components—especially prescription drugs, fasting, and high-intensity training—require medical supervision.

    Mistral Large 2: Ultimate 3-Month Longevity & Biohacking Optimization Plan Designed for a high-performance biohacker seeking to maximize lifespan, cognitive function, physical performance, and metabolic resilience.

    Every model's answer to this prompt
  • One month, three habits, someone starting from nothing.

    DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813: 1-Month Beginner Plan for Health & Longevity Focus areas: Nutrition — add whole foods, protein, and water. Movement — daily walking plus beginner strength. Recovery — sleep and stress management. Week 1: Start Small Area Action Nutrition Add one fist-sized serving of vegetables to one meal per day.

    Mistral Large 2: Here’s a simple, actionable 1-month plan to kickstart your journey toward better health and longevity. We’ll focus on three key pillars: nutrition, movement, and recovery (sleep + stress management). Each week builds on the last, with small, sustainable changes.

    Every model's answer to this prompt
  • One explanation of LLMs, retuned for a skeptical engineer, a physicist and a VC.

    DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813: For the experienced software engineer Think of an LLM as a function with billions of parameters that maps a sequence of tokens to a probability distribution over the next token.

    Mistral Large 2: 1. For the Experienced Software Engineer (Skeptical, Systems-Minded, Non-ML Background) You’re right to be skeptical—"predicting the next word" sounds trivial, like autocomplete on steroids. But the magic isn’t in the prediction itself; it’s in the scale and architecture of how that prediction is trained.

    Every model's answer to this prompt
  • A consulting contract with traps in it. Find them, then fix them.

    DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813: This contract is heavily one-sided. Several clauses could be exploited against the contractor. Below is a clause-by-clause analysis, with proposed language changes and the legal reasoning behind each. Disclaimer: This is not legal advice. You should have a qualified contract attorney review any final agreement.

    Mistral Large 2: This contract is heavily one-sided in favor of the Client (TechCorp Solutions Inc.) and contains multiple clauses that could be exploited, abused, or create unreasonable legal and financial risks for the Contractor.

    Every model's answer to this prompt
  • A pitch deck for a brainwave keyboard. The 94% accuracy claim is doing a lot.

    DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813: The three weakest claims are the 94% accuracy solution, the $180B TAM market math, and the Apple/Samsung "partnership discussions" traction. Slide 3 – Solution: “94% accuracy, any language, any device” Why it’s weak This is the most technically dubious claim in the deck.

    Mistral Large 2: Here are the three weakest claims in MindMeld AI’s pitch deck, along with explanations for why they’re problematic and concrete suggestions to strengthen them: 1.

    Every model's answer to this prompt

Favorites

Movie

Album

Book

City

Same pick

Game

DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813

The Godfather

1972

In Rainbows

Radiohead

Мастер и Маргарита

Михаил Афанасьевич Булгаков

Kyoto

Japan

Disco Elysium

Indie, Adventure

Mistral Large 2Mistral Large 2

The Shawshank Redemption

1994

OK Computer

Radiohead

La sombra del viento

Carlos Ruiz Zafón

Kyoto

Japan

The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time

Action

Price and specs

Not enough votes to call it. On the specs, DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 has the edge: bigger model tier, newer, bigger context window, major provider backing. DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 costs 12x less per token.

DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 and Mistral Large 2 compared across 23 shared prompts
SpecDeepSeek V4 Pro 0813Mistral Large 2
Input price$0.66/M tokens$8/M tokens
Output price$1.98/M tokens$24/M tokens
Context window1.0M tokens128K tokens
WeightsOpenOpen
Free API (OpenRouter)NoNo
ReleasedAug 2026Jul 2024
At 10M a month$6.60$6.60$80.00$80.00
1M10M100M1B10M tokens

Input tokens at list price. No caching, no batch discount.

Where to run it20 hosts, cheapest first
DeepSeek V4 Pro 081319 hosts
HostInOutContextUptime
  • WWafer$0.30 in·$5.00 out·1M·100% up
  • IIonstream$0.37 in·$2.93 out·1M·98.7% up
  • SSail Researchfp4$0.40 in·$3.00 out·1M·100% up
  • DeepSeek$0.66 in·$1.98 out·1M·100% up
  • SStreamLake$0.66 in·$1.98 out·1M·99.9% up
  • PPhala$0.96 in·$2.88 out·1M·98.6% up
13 more hostsFewer hosts
  • NNovitafp8$0.99 in·$2.97 out·1M·100% up
  • GGMI Cloudfp8$1.06 in·$3.17 out·1M·100% up
  • Alibaba Cloud$1.12 in·$3.37 out·1M·99.8% up
  • DDeepInfrafp8$1.30 in·$2.60 out·1M·99.8% up
  • CCoreWeavefp8$1.31 in·$3.96 out·1M·99.8% up
  • AAtlasCloudfp8$1.32 in·$3.96 out·1M·100% up
  • Baidu Qianfanfp8$1.32 in·$3.96 out·1M·100% up
  • Cloudflare Workers AI$1.32 in·$3.96 out·1M·100% up
  • DDigitalOcean$1.32 in·$3.96 out·1M·100% up
  • PParasailfp8$1.32 in·$3.96 out·1M·100% up
  • SSiliconFlowfp8$1.32 in·$3.96 out·1M·100% up
  • TTogether$1.32 in·$3.96 out·1M·99.2% up
  • VVenice$1.65 in·$4.95 out·1M·100% up
Mistral Large 21 host
HostInOutContextUptime
  • Mistral$2.00 in·$6.00 out·131k·50% up

Per million tokens. Prices and uptime via OpenRouter, checked 10 Oct 2026.

Common questions

What is the difference between DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 and Mistral Large 2?

DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 is developed by DeepSeek while Mistral Large 2 is developed by Mistral AI. DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 has a 1.0M token context window vs Mistral Large 2's 128K. You can compare their actual outputs across 23 challenges on Rival to see how they differ in practice.

Which is better, DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 or Mistral Large 2?

It depends on your use case. DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 and Mistral Large 2 each have strengths in different areas. Rival lets you compare their real outputs side-by-side across 23 challenges so you can judge which fits your needs best.

How much does DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 cost compared to Mistral Large 2?

DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 costs $0.66/M input tokens and Mistral Large 2 costs $8/M input tokens. DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 is $7.34/M cheaper per input. Check their side-by-side outputs on Rival to see if the price difference is justified by quality.

How can I compare DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 and Mistral Large 2 on Rival?

This page shows a side-by-side comparison of DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 and Mistral Large 2 across shared challenges. You can vote on which model produced the better output in a blind duel. Browsing and voting are free. No account is needed to look; signing in only saves your votes and likes.

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