DeepSeek R1 vs Mistral Large 3
List-price comparison · DeepSeek R1 details · Mistral Large 3 details
For a typical workload (100,000 requests / mo), Mistral Large 3 costs 18% less — $120.00/mo vs $146.00/mo.
| DeepSeek R1 | Mistral Large 3 | |
|---|---|---|
| Input / 1M tokens | $0.500 | $0.500 |
| Output / 1M tokens | $2.15 | $1.50 |
| Typical request (1,200 in + 400 out) | $0.0015 | $0.0012 |
| Context window | 163,840 tokens | 262,144 tokens |
| Max output | 32,768 tokens | — |
| Tier | Flagship | Balanced |
| Provider | DeepSeek | Mistral AI |
Projected monthly cost
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DeepSeek R1
Chain-of-thought reasoning competitive with closed flagship models on math and logic benchmarks, at open-weight pricing.
Emits long reasoning traces that inflate output token counts and cost — cap reasoning length or use a distilled variant for latency-sensitive paths.
Mistral Large 3
Solid multilingual and coding performance with a 256K context window — popular for European-data-residency deployments via self-hosting.
Ecosystem and tooling support is smaller than OpenAI/Anthropic — fewer turnkey integrations and community examples.
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Vendor list rates · per-request examples assume 1,200 input + 400 output tokens.