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DeepSeek R1 vs Mistral Large 4

List-price comparison ·DeepSeek R1 details ·Mistral Large 4 details

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For a typical workload (100,000 requests / mo), DeepSeek R1 is the cheapest — 12% less than the priciest here ($146.00/mo vs $165.20/mo).

 DeepSeek R1Mistral Large 4
Input / 1M tokens$0.500$0.680
Output / 1M tokens$2.15$2.09
Typical request (1,200 in + 400 out)$0.0015$0.0017
Context window163,840 tokens524,288 tokens
Max output32,768 tokens262,144 tokens
Quality score84/10087/100
TierFlagshipFlagship
ProviderDeepSeekMistral AI

Projected monthly cost

Requests / moDeepSeek R1Mistral Large 4
1,000$1.46$1.65
10,000$14.60$16.52
100,000$146.00$165.20
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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 4

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