Best cell per row highlighted. Null means undisclosed — never counted as zero.
| Provider | Mistral AI | DeepSeek |
| Family / tier | Mistral Small · Small | DeepSeek V4 · Flash |
| Status | GA | retired |
| Released | 2026-03-16 | 2026-04-24 |
| Knowledge cutoff | 2026-01 | 2026-02 |
| Context window | 256K | 1M |
| Max output tokens | 16K | 384K |
| Input modalities | text, image | text |
| Reasoning mode | optional | optional |
| Open weights | Yes | Yes |
| Input | $0.15 | $0.14 |
| Output | $0.6 | $0.28 |
| Cached input | — | $0.0028 |
| Batch input | $0.075 | — |
| Free tier | Yes | Yes |
| Output speed (tok/s) | 180 | — |
| Time to first token (s) | — | — |
| Latency tier | fast | fast |
| Trains on inputs | No | Yes |
| License | Apache-2.0 | MIT |
| Clouds | Bedrock, Azure AI Foundry, Vertex AI | — |
| Compliance | SOC2, ISO27001, GDPR | — |
| Unified score | 8.5 | 8.7 |
| Decision Maker | 8.5 | 8.5 |
| Domain Strategist | 8.5 | 8.5 |
| Finance Lead | 9.5 | 9.7 |
| Domain Practitioner | 9 | 8.5 |
| Power User | 7.5 | 8 |
| Skeptic | 7.5 | 7.5 |
| Value score | 9.5 | 9.9 |