Mistral Devstral Small 1.1 vs MiniMax M3
Compare Mistral Devstral Small 1.1 by Mistral AI against MiniMax M3 by MiniMax, tested across 53 shared challenges.
Our Verdict
MiniMax M3
Mistral Devstral Small 1.1Runner-up
No community votes yet. On paper, MiniMax M3 has the edge — bigger model tier, newer, bigger context window.
Mistral Devstral Small 1.1 is 4.0x 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
4.0× cheaper
MiniMax M3
Input
$0.30
Output
$1.20
Mistral Devstral Small 1.1 is cheaper on both — 3.0× input, 4.0× output
Writing DNA
Style Comparison
Similarity
25%
MiniMax M3 uses 115.0x more emoji
Mistral Devstral Small 1.1
MiniMax M3
50%Vocabulary55%
17wSentence Length24w
0.56Hedging0.52
4.3Bold5.2
5.7Lists3.0
0.00Emoji1.15
0.05Headings1.21
0.34Transitions0.02
Based on 21 + 27 text responses
Research
What we learned reading every model
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