Mistral Devstral Small 1.1 vs Qwen: Qwen3.5 27B
Compare Mistral Devstral Small 1.1 by Mistral AI against Qwen: Qwen3.5 27B by Qwen, tested across 53 shared challenges.
Our Verdict
Qwen: Qwen3.5 27B
Mistral Devstral Small 1.1Runner-up
No community votes yet. On paper, Qwen: Qwen3.5 27B has the edge — bigger model tier, newer, bigger context window.
Mistral Devstral Small 1.1 is 8.0x 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
8.0× cheaper
Qwen: Qwen3.5 27B
Input
$0.30
Output
$2.40
Mistral Devstral Small 1.1 is cheaper on both — 3.0× input, 8.0× output
Writing DNA
Style Comparison
Similarity
64%
Mistral Devstral Small 1.1
Qwen: Qwen3.5 27B
50%Vocabulary51%
17wSentence Length15w
0.56Hedging0.32
4.3Bold7.3
5.7Lists4.8
0.00Emoji0.01
0.05Headings0.87
0.34Transitions0.19
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Research
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