Mistral Devstral Medium vs Qwen: Qwen3.8 Max
Compare Mistral Devstral Medium by Mistral AI against Qwen: Qwen3.8 Max by Qwen, tested across 21 shared challenges.
Our Verdict
Qwen: Qwen3.8 Max
Mistral Devstral MediumRunner-up
No community votes yet. On paper, Qwen: Qwen3.8 Max has the edge — bigger model tier, newer, bigger context window.
Mistral Devstral Medium is 3.0x cheaper per token — worth considering if cost matters.
Too close to call
API pricing
Cost per 1M tokens
Mistral Devstral Medium
Input
$0.40
5.0× cheaper
Output
$2.00
3.0× cheaper
Qwen: Qwen3.8 Max
Input
$2.00
Output
$6.00
Mistral Devstral Medium is cheaper on both — 5.0× input, 3.0× output
Writing DNA
Style Comparison
Similarity
58%
Mistral Devstral Medium uses 16.4x more transitions
Mistral Devstral Medium
Qwen: Qwen3.8 Max
50%Vocabulary48%
17wSentence Length17w
0.56Hedging0.95
4.5Bold4.3
5.3Lists8.2
0.00Emoji0.00
0.19Headings1.92
0.32Transitions0.02
Based on 21 + 13 text responses
Research
What we learned reading every model
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