Mistral Devstral Small 1.1 vs MiniMax M1
Compare Mistral Devstral Small 1.1 by Mistral AI against MiniMax M1 by MiniMax, tested across 54 shared challenges.
Our Verdict
MiniMax M1
Mistral Devstral Small 1.1Runner-up
No community votes yet. On paper, MiniMax M1 has the edge — bigger model tier, bigger context window.
Mistral Devstral Small 1.1 is 5.5x 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
3.0× cheaper
Output
$0.30
5.5× cheaper
MiniMax M1
Input
$0.30
Output
$1.65
Mistral Devstral Small 1.1 is cheaper on both — 3.0× input, 5.5× output
Writing DNA
Style Comparison
Similarity
46%
MiniMax M1 uses 10.4x more emoji
Mistral Devstral Small 1.1
MiniMax M1
50%Vocabulary53%
17wSentence Length17w
0.56Hedging0.51
4.3Bold7.4
5.7Lists6.2
0.00Emoji0.10
0.05Headings0.86
0.34Transitions0.03
Based on 21 + 14 text responses
Research
What we learned reading every model
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