DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017vs.Mistral Large 4
Which one is better?
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 is clearly ahead in the overall index and is cheaper too: Mistral Large 4 costs 9.1 times (input) and 7 times (output) as much per token.
64
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017
Rank 14 to 22
28
Mistral Large 4
Rank 34 to 43
178
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017
fast
113
Mistral Large 4
fairly fast
$0.26
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017
cheap
$2.07
Mistral Large 4
fairly expensive
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017
- Subscription
No DeepSeek subscription includes this model. Through other providers from ≈ €6.36 a month (Token Plan Individual Lite, with limited credits). 7 plans in Germany.
- Via API
$0.15 input, $0.60 output per 1M tokens according to the provider; the price index has listed it at $0.30 and $1 since Oct 26, 2026.
Mistral Large 4
- Subscription
No Mistral AI subscription includes this model. Through other providers from ≈ €1.06 a month (Command Code Go, with limited credits). 12 plans in Germany.
- Via API
$1.36 input, $4.18 output per 1M tokens.
Overall index with data through Oct 29, 2026 · Prices from Oct 29, 2026 · Speed: measured by Artificial Analysis · Subscriptions as of Oct 24, 2026 · Subscription prices incl. VAT
Where is the difference?
Values from 0 to 100 per task area. We only name a winner when the gap is large enough and there are enough tests.
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 ahead: 7Mistral Large 4 ahead: 0level: 0too little data: 3of 10 areas
AreaDeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017Mistral Large 40 to 100, higher is betterResult
Areas in the overall index
CodingDeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 aheadDeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017: 72Mistral Large 4: 38
ReasoningDeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 aheadDeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017: 45Mistral Large 4: 26
Mathematicsonly Mistral Large 4 has a scoreDeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017: not enough dataMistral Large 4: 10
KnowledgeDeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 aheadDeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017: 33Mistral Large 4: 11
AgentsDeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 aheadDeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017: 75Mistral Large 4: 48
Generalonly Mistral Large 4 has a scoreDeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017: not enough dataMistral Large 4: 28
MultimodalDeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 aheadDeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017: 55Mistral Large 4: 23
Specialist fields
FinanceDeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 aheadDeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017: 69Mistral Large 4: 54
LegalDeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 aheadDeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017: 76Mistral Large 4: 49
Healthonly Mistral Large 4 has a scoreDeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017: not enough dataMistral Large 4: 18
See for yourself: same task, one attempt
The same prompt for both models. We show the latest attempt without fixes; it does not count toward the overall index.
This is the lowest documented setting for each provider. It does not make compute comparable across models.
Pelican on a bicycle
A community classic for free-form SVG drawing.
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017
Not tested yet
Mistral Large 4
Reasoning (requested): none
Current attempt
- Run date
- Oct 11, 2026
- API provider
- Mistral
- Requested API model
- mistralai/mistral-large-4-0
- API model reported in response
- mistralai/mistral-large-4-0
- Reasoning setting
- none
- Pinned endpoint
- Mistral | mistralai/mistral-large-4-0-20261006
- Temperature
- Provider default
- Token limit including reasoning
- 8,192 tokens
- Reasoning tokens
- 0
- Test protocol
- community-visual-low-v1
- Technical checks
- Passed, not a quality rating
- Response time
- 28.7 s
Visually reviewed. This individual test does not establish overall model quality.
Prompt and test conditions
Generate an SVG of a pelican riding a bicycle
Token limit including reasoning: 8,192 tokens
Task origin (Simon Willison)SVG short test
There is no shared test round for this selection. Results from different rounds are not mixed.
All data side by side
The better value is bold. For the overall index only when the gap is clear.
| Metric | DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 | Mistral Large 4 |
|---|---|---|
| Intelligence | ||
| Overall index0 to 100, higher is better | 64 | 28 |
| Rank | Rank 14 to 22 of 95 | Rank 34 to 43 of 95 |
| Price per 1M tokens | ||
| Inputwhat you send | $0.15 | $1.36 |
| Outputwhat the model writes | $0.60 | $4.18 |
| Speed | ||
| Tokens per second | 178 | 113 |
| Technical | ||
| Context windowhow much text the model reads at once | 1.05 M tokens≈ 1,570 A4 pages | 524,288 tokens≈ 790 A4 pages |
| Knowledge cutoff | n/a | n/a |
| Released | Oct 17, 2026 | Oct 6, 2026 |
| Availability | Open Source | Preview |
| Open weights | yes | n/a |
- DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017: At peak times (Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri, 01:00-04:00 UTC; Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri, 06:00-10:00 UTC) the price is $0.30 input and $1.20 output per 1M tokens. The table shows the off-peak price.
- DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017, Time-based API pricing: Off peak: $0.15 input, $0.60 output, and $0.003 cached input. Weekdays UTC 01:00-04:00 and 06:00-10:00: $0.30, $1.20, and $0.006. Chinese public holidays are excluded. Source
- Mistral Large 4, Launch pricing announced October 6, 2026: Mistral announced a 50% discount for two weeks. The published introductory rates are $0.68 input, $2.09 output and $0.07 cache read per 1M tokens. Price comparisons use the standard rates. Source
Prices without caching or batch discounts · Page count as a rule of thumb from Artificial Analysis
Shared benchmarks
Single results from the same benchmark version, task and metric. A value is bold only with the same test setup and a clear gap.
A: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017B: Mistral Large 4
Code MigrationOverall · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalDeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017: 44.2%Mistral Large 4: 30.6%Vals AIAs of 10/18/2026
EMBOverall · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalDeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017: 61.8%Mistral Large 4: 56.2%Vals AIAs of 10/20/2026
EMB v1.1Overall · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalDeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017: 69.2%Mistral Large 4: 69%Vals AIAs of 10/26/2026
Finance Agent (v2)Overall · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalDeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017: 57%Mistral Large 4: 54.7%Vals AIAs of 10/20/2026
Finance Agent v2.1Overall · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalDeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017: 62.9%Mistral Large 4: 61.4%Vals AIAs of 10/26/2026
HLAB-Vals-1.1Overall · Task fully resolved · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalDeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017: 14.2%Mistral Large 4: 17.5%Vals AIAs of 10/26/2026
Legal Research BenchOverall · All-pass · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalDeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017: 45.2%Mistral Large 4: 31.7%Vals AIAs of 10/26/2026
LMArena Code Arena WebDevOverall · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalDeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017: 1,666Mistral Large 4: 1,543LMArenaAs of 10/27/2026
Tax Agent BenchOverall · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalDeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017: 44.4%Mistral Large 4: 30.4%Vals AIAs of 10/26/2026
Terminal-Bench 4.0Overall · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalDeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017: 31.8%Mistral Large 4: 27.8%Vals AIAs of 10/26/2026
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Vals Finance IndexOverall · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalDeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017: 60.9%Mistral Large 4: 56.9%Vals AIAs of 10/26/2026
Vals Legal IndexOverall · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalDeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017: 71.9%Mistral Large 4: 65.6%Vals AIAs of 10/26/2026
Vibe Code Bench v1.1Overall · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalDeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017: 87.7%Mistral Large 4: 78.4%Vals AIAs of 10/26/2026
Code MigrationCLI · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalDeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017: 35.6%Mistral Large 4: 17.4%Vals AIAs of 10/18/2026
EMBComps · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalDeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017: 49.8%Mistral Large 4: 56.6%Vals AIAs of 10/20/2026
EMB v1.1Comps · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalDeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017: 70.8%Mistral Large 4: 70.5%Vals AIAs of 10/26/2026
Finance Agent (v2)Adjustments · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalDeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017: 58.4%Mistral Large 4: 52.4%Vals AIAs of 10/20/2026
Finance Agent v2.1Adjustments · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalDeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017: 66.8%Mistral Large 4: 59.6%Vals AIAs of 10/26/2026
HLAB-Vals-1.1Antitrust Competition · Criteria passed · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalDeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017: 93.5%Mistral Large 4: 93.3%Vals AIAs of 10/26/2026
Legal Research BenchAdministrative / Regulatory · All-pass · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalDeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017: 59.1%Mistral Large 4: 34.8%Vals AIAs of 10/26/2026
LMArena Code Arena WebDevHTML development · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalDeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017: 1,705Mistral Large 4: 1,494LMArenaAs of 10/27/2026
Tax Agent BenchControversy & Precedence Analysis · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalDeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017: 23.3%Mistral Large 4: 3.3%Vals AIAs of 10/26/2026
Terminal-Bench 4.0Hardware · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalDeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017: 6.7%Mistral Large 4: 13.3%Vals AIAs of 10/26/2026
Vals Finance IndexEMB v1.1 · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalDeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017: 69.2%Mistral Large 4: 69%Vals AIAs of 10/26/2026
Vals Legal IndexBusiness & Commercial · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalDeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017: 68%Mistral Large 4: 59.2%Vals AIAs of 10/26/2026
Code MigrationCOBOL · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalDeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017: 70%Mistral Large 4: 70%Vals AIAs of 10/18/2026
EMBDataroom · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalDeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017: 82.8%Mistral Large 4: 75%Vals AIAs of 10/20/2026
EMB v1.1Dataroom · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalDeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017: 86.5%Mistral Large 4: 83.1%Vals AIAs of 10/26/2026
Finance Agent (v2)All-Pass · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalDeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017: 45.2%Mistral Large 4: 43.8%Vals AIAs of 10/20/2026
Finance Agent v2.1All-Pass · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalDeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017: 51.3%Mistral Large 4: 47.8%Vals AIAs of 10/26/2026
HLAB-Vals-1.1Antitrust Competition · Task fully resolved · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalDeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017: 30%Mistral Large 4: 0%Vals AIAs of 10/26/2026
Legal Research BenchAdministrative / Regulatory · Weighted partial credit · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalDeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017: 91.3%Mistral Large 4: 88.5%Vals AIAs of 10/26/2026
LMArena Code Arena WebDevReact development · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalDeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017: 1,672Mistral Large 4: 1,557LMArenaAs of 10/27/2026
Tax Agent BenchControversy & Precedence Analysis · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalDeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017: 73.2%Mistral Large 4: 50%Vals AIAs of 10/26/2026
Terminal-Bench 4.0Media · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalDeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017: 25%Mistral Large 4: 41.7%Vals AIAs of 10/26/2026
Vals Finance IndexFinance Agent v2.1 · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalDeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017: 62.9%Mistral Large 4: 61.4%Vals AIAs of 10/26/2026
Vals Legal IndexCivil Negligence · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalDeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017: 64.6%Mistral Large 4: 64%Vals AIAs of 10/26/2026
Code MigrationCode Quality · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalDeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017: 3.992 / 5Mistral Large 4: 4.133 / 5Vals AIAs of 10/18/2026
EMBDCF · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalDeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017: 53%Mistral Large 4: 35.9%Vals AIAs of 10/20/2026
EMB v1.1DCF · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalDeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017: 59.7%Mistral Large 4: 60.9%Vals AIAs of 10/26/2026
Finance Agent (v2)Comparables · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalDeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017: 47.5%Mistral Large 4: 48.6%Vals AIAs of 10/20/2026
Finance Agent v2.1Comparables · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalDeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017: 59.8%Mistral Large 4: 57.7%Vals AIAs of 10/26/2026
HLAB-Vals-1.1Arbitration International Dispute Resolution · Criteria passed · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalDeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017: 91.8%Mistral Large 4: 95.3%Vals AIAs of 10/26/2026
Legal Research BenchBusiness & Commercial · All-pass · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalDeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017: 44.2%Mistral Large 4: 25.6%Vals AIAs of 10/26/2026
LMArena Code Arena WebDevWeb development · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalDeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017: 1,666Mistral Large 4: 1,543LMArenaAs of 10/27/2026
Tax Agent BenchCurrent & Temporal Analysis · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalDeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017: 56.4%Mistral Large 4: 46.6%Vals AIAs of 10/26/2026
Terminal-Bench 4.0ML · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalDeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017: 42.4%Mistral Large 4: 33.3%Vals AIAs of 10/26/2026
Vals Finance IndexTax Agent Bench · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalDeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017: 44.4%Mistral Large 4: 30.4%Vals AIAs of 10/26/2026
Vals Legal IndexCriminal · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalDeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017: 62.5%Mistral Large 4: 62%Vals AIAs of 10/26/2026
EMBLBO · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalDeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017: 57.8%Mistral Large 4: 57.5%Vals AIAs of 10/20/2026
EMB v1.1LBO · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalDeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017: 62.5%Mistral Large 4: 60.6%Vals AIAs of 10/26/2026
Finance Agent (v2)Disclosure Analysis · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalDeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017: 66.3%Mistral Large 4: 63.9%Vals AIAs of 10/20/2026
Finance Agent v2.1Disclosure Analysis · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalDeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017: 70.3%Mistral Large 4: 73.5%Vals AIAs of 10/26/2026
HLAB-Vals-1.1Arbitration International Dispute Resolution · Task fully resolved · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalDeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017: 10%Mistral Large 4: 10%Vals AIAs of 10/26/2026
Legal Research BenchBusiness & Commercial · Weighted partial credit · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalDeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017: 87.8%Mistral Large 4: 86%Vals AIAs of 10/26/2026
Tax Agent BenchCurrent & Temporal Analysis · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalDeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017: 75%Mistral Large 4: 64.2%Vals AIAs of 10/26/2026
Terminal-Bench 4.0Operations · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalDeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017: 18.5%Mistral Large 4: 14.8%Vals AIAs of 10/26/2026
Vals Legal IndexFamily · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalDeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017: 27.3%Mistral Large 4: 9.1%Vals AIAs of 10/26/2026
EMBM&A · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalDeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017: 62.3%Mistral Large 4: 51.9%Vals AIAs of 10/20/2026
EMB v1.1M&A · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalDeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017: 73.1%Mistral Large 4: 74.1%Vals AIAs of 10/26/2026
Finance Agent (v2)Earnings Analysis · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalDeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017: 75.3%Mistral Large 4: 76.5%Vals AIAs of 10/20/2026
Finance Agent v2.1Earnings Analysis · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalDeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017: 93%Mistral Large 4: 80.5%Vals AIAs of 10/26/2026
HLAB-Vals-1.1Banking Finance · Criteria passed · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalDeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017: 74.8%Mistral Large 4: 74.8%Vals AIAs of 10/26/2026
Legal Research BenchCivil Litigation · All-pass · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identicalDeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017: 37%Mistral Large 4: 33.3%Vals AIAs of 10/26/2026
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