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  5. Mistral Devstral Small 1.1vsMiMo-V2.6-Pro
Updated Sep 2026

Mistral Devstral Small 1.1vsMiMo-V2.6-Pro

Mistral Devstral Small 1.1 is cheaper than MiMo-V2.6-Pro at $0.1/M vs $0.435/M input tokens.

Mistral Devstral Small 1.1 and MiMo-V2.6-Pro compared across 9 shared prompts
SpecMistral Devstral Small 1.1MiMo-V2.6-Pro
Input price$0.1/M tokens$0.435/M tokens
Output price$0.3/M tokens$0.87/M tokens
Context window—1.0M tokens
WeightsOpen—
Free API (OpenRouter)NoNo
ReleasedJul 2025Sep 2026
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Same prompt, both answers

Opening lines from 4 of the 9 prompts both answered. Formatting stripped, words untouched.

Simple 7-Ingredient Recipe

Create a simple recipe for a delicious dish (sweet or savory) using only 7 common pantry ingredients. Include a creative name for the dish…

Mistral Devstral Small 1.1254 words
Dish Name: "Pantry Pasta Primavera" Ingredients: Pasta (any shape, 8 oz or 225g) Canned tomatoes (14 oz or 400g) Onion (1 medium) Garlic (2 cloves) Olive oil (2 tbsp) Salt (1 tsp) Black pepper (½ tsp) Instructions: Boil the pasta: Cook the pasta according to package instructions until al dente.
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MiMo-V2.6-Pro332 words
🍝 Moonlight Garlic Kiss Pasta A silky, garlicky butter pasta that proves simple ingredients can make something truly unforgettable. 7 Pantry Ingredients # Ingredient Amount 1 Spaghetti (or any pasta) 8 oz (half a standard box) 2 Butter 4 tablespoons 3 Garlic cloves 5 cloves, thinly sliced 4 Parmesan cheese ½ cup…
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Beginner's Longevity Plan

Outline a simple, actionable 1-month plan for someone starting their journey towards better health and longevity. Focus on 3 key areas…

Mistral Devstral Small 1.1514 words
1-Month Health and Longevity Plan Week 1: Foundation Building Diet: Start with Small Changes Begin by adding more fruits and vegetables to your meals. Replace sugary drinks with water or herbal tea. Aim for a balanced diet with lean proteins, whole grains, and healthy fats.
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MiMo-V2.6-Pro679 words
🌱 Your 1-Month Health & Longevity Starter Plan The 3 Pillars: Move · Nourish · Recover 🏃 MOVE (Exercise) Goal: Build a consistent, sustainable movement habit. Week 1 — Just Show Up Walk for 20 minutes daily (after lunch or dinner works great).
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Explain Like I'm a Specific Expert

Explain how a large language model (like GPT or Claude) learns and generates text to each of these three audiences: 1. **An experienced…

Mistral Devstral Small 1.1508 words
Experienced Software Engineer Imagine a large language model like GPT or Claude as a sophisticated autocomplete system, but instead of just predicting the next word, it's predicting the next token (a piece of a word or punctuation).
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MiMo-V2.6-Pro1,338 words
Explaining Large Language Models to Three Audiences For the Software Engineer Think of an LLM as the most lossy, most brilliant compression algorithm ever built — except it's not compressing a specific file, it's compressing the patterns of human language into a fixed set of ~1 trillion floating-point parameters.
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Startup Pitch Teardown

Here's a pitch deck summary for a startup called "MindMeld AI": **Slide 1 - Vision:** "We're building the future of human-AI collaboration.…

Mistral Devstral Small 1.1315 words
Weak Claim: "Our proprietary EEG headband uses advanced ML to decode neural patterns into text with 94% accuracy." Why it's weak: This claim is too vague and lacks concrete evidence.
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MiMo-V2.6-Pro1,037 words
The 3 Weakest Claims in the MindMeld AI Pitch 🔴 "94% accuracy" non-invasive EEG decoding into text — (Slide 3) Why it's weak This is the claim the entire company rests on, and it directly contradicts the published state of the art.
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Our Verdict
MiMo-V2.6-Pro
MiMo-V2.6-Pro
Mistral Devstral Small 1.1
Mistral Devstral Small 1.1Runner-up

Not enough votes to call it. On the specs, MiMo-V2.6-Pro has the edge: bigger model tier, newer, bigger context window.

Too close to call
API pricing

Cost per 1M tokens

Mistral Devstral Small 1.1
Input
$0.10
4.3× cheaper
Output
$0.30
2.9× cheaper
MiMo-V2.6-Pro
Input
$0.43
Output
$0.87

Mistral Devstral Small 1.1 is cheaper on both: 4.3× input, 2.9× output.

Where to run it

2 hosts

Mistral Devstral Small 1.1

No hosts listed on OpenRouter.

MiMo-V2.6-Pro2 hosts
HostInOutContextUptime
DDeepInfrafp8$0.43 in·$0.87 out·1M·99.2% upXiaomifp8$0.43 in·$0.87 out·1M·100% up

Per million tokens. Prices and uptime via OpenRouter, checked 23 Sep 2026.

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Mistral Devstral Small 1.1 is developed by Mistral AI while MiMo-V2.6-Pro is developed by Xiaomi. You can compare their actual outputs across 9 challenges on Rival to see how they differ in practice.

It depends on your use case. Mistral Devstral Small 1.1 and MiMo-V2.6-Pro each have strengths in different areas. Rival lets you compare their real outputs side-by-side across 9 challenges so you can judge which fits your needs best.

Mistral Devstral Small 1.1 costs $0.1/M input tokens and MiMo-V2.6-Pro costs $0.435/M input tokens. Mistral Devstral Small 1.1 is $0.33/M cheaper per input. Check their side-by-side outputs on Rival to see if the price difference is justified by quality.

This page shows a side-by-side comparison of Mistral Devstral Small 1.1 and MiMo-V2.6-Pro across shared challenges. You can vote on which model produced the better output in a blind duel. Browsing and voting are free. No account is needed to look; signing in only saves your votes and likes.

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