DeepSeek-V3 is the latest model from the DeepSeek team, building upon the instruction following and coding abilities of the previous versions. Pre-trained on nearly 15 trillion tokens, the reported evaluations reveal that the model outperfo…
Model details →DeepSeek Chat (legacy id) vs Mistral: Devstral Small 1.1
Mistral: Devstral Small 1.1 wins on 2 of 6 axes — pricing and capability skew in its favour for most workloads.
Devstral Small 1.1 is a 24B parameter open-weight language model for software engineering agents, developed by Mistral AI in collaboration with All Hands AI. Finetuned from Mistral Small 3.1 and released under the Apache 2.0 license, it fea…
Model details →Side-by-side comparison
| Capability | DeepSeek Chat (legacy id) | Mistral: Devstral Small 1.1 | Winner |
|---|---|---|---|
| Context window Maximum number of input tokens the model can attend to in a single request. | 164K | 131K | 🏆 DeepSeek Chat (legacy id) |
| Input price (per 1M) Cost per million input tokens billed by the provider. | $0.32 | $0.10 | 🏆 Mistral: Devstral Small 1.1 |
| Output price (per 1M) Cost per million output tokens billed by the provider. | $0.89 | $0.30 | 🏆 Mistral: Devstral Small 1.1 |
| Tool / function calling First-class support for emitting structured tool calls. | Yes | Yes | Tie |
| Vision input Accepts image inputs alongside text. | — | — | Tie |
| Reasoning mode Internal chain-of-thought / extended-thinking support. | — | — | Tie |
Frequently asked questions
Is DeepSeek Chat (legacy id) better than Mistral: Devstral Small 1.1?
Mistral: Devstral Small 1.1 wins on 2 of 6 axes — pricing and capability skew in its favour for most workloads.
What's the price difference between DeepSeek Chat (legacy id) and Mistral: Devstral Small 1.1?
Input: $0.32 vs $0.10 per 1M tokens. Output: $0.89 vs $0.30 per 1M tokens.
What context windows do DeepSeek Chat (legacy id) and Mistral: Devstral Small 1.1 support?
DeepSeek Chat (legacy id) supports up to 164K tokens. Mistral: Devstral Small 1.1 supports up to 131K tokens.
Do both DeepSeek Chat (legacy id) and Mistral: Devstral Small 1.1 support tool calling?
DeepSeek Chat (legacy id): yes. Mistral: Devstral Small 1.1: yes.