Mistral Devstral Small 1.1 vs Qwen: Qwen3.8 Max
Compare Mistral Devstral Small 1.1 by Mistral AI against Qwen: Qwen3.8 Max by Qwen, tested across 21 shared challenges.
Our Verdict
Qwen: Qwen3.8 Max
Mistral Devstral Small 1.1Runner-up
No community votes yet. On paper, Qwen: Qwen3.8 Max has the edge — bigger model tier, newer, bigger context window.
Mistral Devstral Small 1.1 is 20x 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
20× cheaper
Output
$0.30
20× cheaper
Qwen: Qwen3.8 Max
Input
$2.00
Output
$6.00
Mistral Devstral Small 1.1 is cheaper on both — 20× input, 20× output
Writing DNA
Style Comparison
Similarity
55%
Qwen: Qwen3.8 Max uses 39.6x more headings
Mistral Devstral Small 1.1
Qwen: Qwen3.8 Max
50%Vocabulary48%
17wSentence Length17w
0.56Hedging0.95
4.3Bold4.3
5.7Lists8.2
0.00Emoji0.00
0.05Headings1.92
0.34Transitions0.02
Based on 21 + 13 text responses
Research
What we learned reading every model
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