Mistral Devstral Small 1.1 vs OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Terra
Compare Mistral Devstral Small 1.1 by Mistral AI against OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Terra by OpenAI, tested across 54 shared challenges.
Our Verdict
OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Terra
Mistral Devstral Small 1.1Runner-up
No community votes yet. On paper, OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Terra has the edge — bigger model tier, newer, bigger context window, major provider backing.
Mistral Devstral Small 1.1 is 50x cheaper per token — worth considering if cost matters.
Slight edge
API pricing
Cost per 1M tokens
Mistral Devstral Small 1.1
Input
$0.10
25× cheaper
Output
$0.30
50× cheaper
OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Terra
Input
$2.50
Output
$15.00
Mistral Devstral Small 1.1 is cheaper on both — 25× input, 50× output
Writing DNA
Style Comparison
Similarity
57%
OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Terra uses 23.2x more headings
Mistral Devstral Small 1.1
OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Terra
50%Vocabulary57%
17wSentence Length18w
0.56Hedging0.85
4.3Bold2.8
5.7Lists4.6
0.00Emoji0.00
0.05Headings1.12
0.34Transitions0.06
Based on 21 + 27 text responses
Research
What we learned reading every model
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