Mistral Devstral Small 1.1 vs Mistral Large 2
Compare Mistral Devstral Small 1.1 and Mistral Large 2, both from Mistral AI, tested across 23 shared challenges.
Our Verdict
Mistral Devstral Small 1.1
Mistral Large 2
No community votes yet. On paper, these are closely matched - try both with your actual task to see which fits your workflow.
Mistral Devstral Small 1.1 is 80x 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
80× cheaper
Output
$0.30
80× cheaper
Mistral Large 2
Input
$8.00
Output
$24.00
Mistral Devstral Small 1.1 is cheaper on both — 80× input, 80× output
Writing DNA
Style Comparison
Similarity
50%
Mistral Large 2 uses 79.6x more emoji
Mistral Devstral Small 1.1
Mistral Large 2
50%Vocabulary43%
17wSentence Length21w
0.56Hedging0.39
4.3Bold14.4
5.7Lists7.4
0.00Emoji0.80
0.05Headings1.41
0.34Transitions0.01
Based on 21 + 10 text responses
Research
What we learned reading every model
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