Best cell per row highlighted. Null means undisclosed — never counted as zero.
| Provider | Mistral AI | Meta | DeepSeek |
| Family / tier | Mistral Small · Small | Llama 4 · Maverick | DeepSeek V4 · Flash |
| Status | GA | GA | retired |
| Released | 2026-03-16 | 2025-04-05 | 2026-04-24 |
| Knowledge cutoff | 2026-01 | 2024-08 | 2026-02 |
| Context window | 256K | 1M | 1M |
| Max output tokens | 16K | 8K | 384K |
| Input modalities | text, image | text, image | text |
| Reasoning mode | optional | none | optional |
| Open weights | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Input | $0.15 | $0.2 | $0.14 |
| Output | $0.6 | $0.85 | $0.28 |
| Cached input | — | — | $0.0028 |
| Batch input | $0.075 | — | — |
| Free tier | Yes | No | Yes |
| Output speed (tok/s) | 180 | 104.3 | — |
| Time to first token (s) | — | 0.66 | — |
| Latency tier | fast | fast | fast |
| Trains on inputs | No | No | Yes |
| License | Apache-2.0 | Llama-4-Community | MIT |
| Clouds | Bedrock, Azure AI Foundry, Vertex AI | Bedrock, Vertex AI, Azure AI Foundry, GCP, OCI, IBM watsonx | — |
| Compliance | SOC2, ISO27001, GDPR | — | — |
| Unified score | 8.5 | 7.7 | 8.7 |
| Decision Maker | 8.5 | 8.5 | 8.5 |
| Domain Strategist | 8.5 | 7.5 | 8.5 |
| Finance Lead | 9.5 | 9 | 9.7 |
| Domain Practitioner | 9 | 7.5 | 8.5 |
| Power User | 7.5 | 6.5 | 8 |
| Skeptic | 7.5 | 5.5 | 7.5 |
| Value score | 9.5 | 9 | 9.9 |
| MMLU | — | 85.5 | — |
| MMLU-Pro | 78 | 80.5 | 86.2 |
| GPQA Diamond | 71.2 | 69.8 | 88.1 |
| MATH-500 | — | 61.2 | — |
| SWE-bench Verified | — | — | 79 |
| HumanEval | — | 85.8 | — |
| LiveCodeBench | — | 43.4 | 91.6 |
| Aider Polyglot | — | 15.6 | — |
| MMMU | — | 73.4 | — |
| MRCR Long Context | — | — | 78.7 |
| SimpleQA | — | — | 34.1 |
| Humanity's Last Exam | — | — | 34.8 |
| LMArena Elo | — | 1327 | 1438 |
| LMArena Coding Elo | — | 1373 | 1483 |
Scores link to their sources. Missing cells mean the vendor hasn't disclosed a result — honesty over padding.