DeepSeek V4 Pro vs Mistral Medium 3
Compare DeepSeek V4 Pro by DeepSeek against Mistral Medium 3 by Mistral AI, context windows of 1.0M vs 131K, tested across 54 shared challenges.
Our Verdict
DeepSeek V4 Pro
Mistral Medium 3Runner-up
No community votes yet. On paper, DeepSeek V4 Pro has the edge — bigger model tier, newer, bigger context window, major provider backing.
Slight edge
API pricing
Cost per 1M tokens
DeepSeek V4 Pro
Input
$1.74
Output
$3.48
Mistral Medium 3
Input
$0.40
4.3× cheaper
Output
$2.00
1.7× cheaper
Mistral Medium 3 is cheaper on both — 4.3× input, 1.7× output
Writing DNA
Style Comparison
Similarity
28%
Mistral Medium 3 uses 2.8x more lists
DeepSeek V4 Pro
Mistral Medium 3
57%Vocabulary57%
18wSentence Length17w
0.52Hedging0.73
3.3Bold8.6
2.3Lists6.5
0.04Emoji0.06
0.45Headings1.18
0.15Transitions0.15
Based on 27 + 15 text responses
Research
What we learned reading every model
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