Mistral Devstral Small 1.1 vs xAI: Grok 4.5
Compare Mistral Devstral Small 1.1 by Mistral AI against xAI: Grok 4.5 by xAI, tested across 54 shared challenges.
Our Verdict
xAI: Grok 4.5
Mistral Devstral Small 1.1Runner-up
No community votes yet. On paper, xAI: Grok 4.5 has the edge — bigger model tier, newer, bigger context window, major provider backing.
Mistral Devstral Small 1.1 is 20x cheaper per token — worth considering if cost matters.
Slight edge
API pricing
Cost per 1M tokens
Mistral Devstral Small 1.1
Input
$0.10
20× cheaper
Output
$0.30
20× cheaper
xAI: Grok 4.5
Input
$2.00
Output
$6.00
Mistral Devstral Small 1.1 is cheaper on both — 20× input, 20× output
Writing DNA
Style Comparison
Similarity
37%
xAI: Grok 4.5 uses 9.0x more emoji
Mistral Devstral Small 1.1
xAI: Grok 4.5
50%Vocabulary61%
17wSentence Length16w
0.56Hedging0.23
4.3Bold2.5
5.7Lists2.4
0.00Emoji0.09
0.05Headings0.48
0.34Transitions0.06
Based on 21 + 27 text responses
Research
What we learned reading every model
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