Mistral Devstral Small 1.1 vs Qwen3.8 Max
Compare Mistral Devstral Small 1.1 by Mistral AI against Qwen3.8 Max by Qwen, tested across 21 shared challenges.
Our Verdict
Qwen3.8 Max
Mistral Devstral Small 1.1Runner-up
No community votes yet. On paper, 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
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%
Qwen3.8 Max uses 39.6x more headings
Mistral Devstral Small 1.1
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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