Mistral Devstral Small 1.1 vs Grok 3 Beta
Compare Mistral Devstral Small 1.1 by Mistral AI against Grok 3 Beta by xAI, tested across 54 shared challenges.
Our Verdict
Grok 3 Beta
Mistral Devstral Small 1.1Runner-up
No community votes yet. On paper, Grok 3 Beta has the edge — bigger model tier, bigger context window, major provider backing.
Mistral Devstral Small 1.1 is 13x cheaper per token — worth considering if cost matters.
Too close to call
API pricing
Cost per 1M tokens
Mistral Devstral Small 1.1
Input
$0.10
20× cheaper
Output
$0.30
13× cheaper
Grok 3 Beta
Input
$2.00
Output
$4.00
Mistral Devstral Small 1.1 is cheaper on both — 20× input, 13× output
Writing DNA
Style Comparison
Similarity
87%
Grok 3 Beta uses 10.8x more headings
Mistral Devstral Small 1.1
Grok 3 Beta
50%Vocabulary48%
17wSentence Length19w
0.56Hedging0.67
4.3Bold3.1
5.7Lists5.5
0.00Emoji0.00
0.05Headings0.52
0.34Transitions0.28
Based on 21 + 23 text responses
Research
What we learned reading every model
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