AI model comparison

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash vs Mistral Nemo

Pricing, context window, benchmarks, and features compared side by side. Or skip the guesswork and send one prompt to both.

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash is a sparse mixture-of-experts model from DeepSeek, and the first built on the company's Causal Encoder-Decoder (CED) architecture.

Input / 1M
$0.15
Output / 1M
$0.60
Context
1.05M

A 12B parameter model with a 128k token context length built by Mistral in collaboration with NVIDIA.

Input / 1M
$0.03
Output / 1M
$0.03
Context
131K

At a glance

Quick verdict

How the two models stack up on the things people ask about most.

Lower price

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Mistral Nemo

8.2x cheaper for a typical chat

Higher intelligence score

Tie

Not enough benchmark data

Larger context window

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DeepSeek V4.1 Flash

1.05M vs 131K tokens

Newer release

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DeepSeek V4.1 Flash

Released September 10, 2026

Benchmarks

Benchmark scores

Independent scores from Artificial Analysis. Higher is better.

Intelligence index

deepseek logoDeepSeek V4.1 Flash39.5
mistralai logoMistral NemoNot available

Coding index

deepseek logoDeepSeek V4.1 FlashNot available
mistralai logoMistral NemoNot available

Agentic index

deepseek logoDeepSeek V4.1 FlashNot available
mistralai logoMistral NemoNot available

Pricing

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash vs Mistral Nemo API pricing

Per-token API rates. Cheaper option highlighted.

Metricdeepseek logoDeepSeek V4.1 Flashmistralai logoMistral Nemo
Input tokensPer 1M tokens$0.15$0.03
Output tokensPer 1M tokens$0.60$0.03
Cached input (read)Per 1M tokens$0.00Not available
Cache writePer 1M tokensNot availableNot available

What it costs in practice

Estimated cost per 1,000 requests at standard rates. Coding and long-document figures also show the cost when the input is already cached.

Chat message

2K in, 500 out

deepseek logoDeepSeek V4.1 Flash$0.60
mistralai logoMistral Nemo$0.07

Coding task

30K in, 4K out

deepseek logoDeepSeek V4.1 Flash$6.90$2.49 cached
mistralai logoMistral Nemo$0.99

Long document summary

150K in, 2K out

deepseek logoDeepSeek V4.1 Flash$23.70$1.65 cached
mistralai logoMistral Nemo$4.41

Specs

Context window and capabilities

How much each model can read, how much it can write, and what it accepts as input.

Metricdeepseek logoDeepSeek V4.1 Flashmistralai logoMistral Nemo
Context window1.05M tokens131K tokens
Max output393K tokens16K tokens
Input typesImage, TextText
Output typesTextText
Reasoning effort levelsMax, High, LowNot available
Default reasoning effortHighNot available
Release dateSeptember 10, 2026July 19, 2024

Features

Supported features

API features available for each model.

Metricdeepseek logoDeepSeek V4.1 Flashmistralai logoMistral Nemo
Tool callingSupportedSupported
Structured outputsSupportedSupported
JSON modeSupportedSupported
ReasoningSupportedNot supported
TemperatureSupportedSupported
Stop sequencesSupportedSupported
Deterministic seedSupportedSupported
Verbosity controlNot supportedNot supported

Our take

Mistral Nemo is 8.2x cheaper for a typical chat. DeepSeek V4.1 Flash has the larger context window (1.05M vs 131K tokens). The right pick depends on your workload, so the quickest way to settle it is to send the same prompt to both and compare.

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

Is DeepSeek V4.1 Flash or Mistral Nemo cheaper?

Mistral Nemo is cheaper for a typical chat (2K input tokens and 500 output tokens). Mistral Nemo costs $0.03 per 1M input tokens and $0.03 per 1M output tokens, while DeepSeek V4.1 Flash costs $0.15 per 1M input tokens and $0.60 per 1M output tokens.

Which has a bigger context window, DeepSeek V4.1 Flash or Mistral Nemo?

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash supports up to 1.05M tokens of context, compared with 131K for Mistral Nemo.

Can I use DeepSeek V4.1 Flash and Mistral Nemo at the same time?

Yes. Shortcut Chat sends one prompt to multiple models at once, so you can see DeepSeek V4.1 Flash and Mistral Nemo answer side by side and keep the better response.

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Why choose? Ask both.

Send one prompt to DeepSeek V4.1 Flash and Mistral Nemo at the same time. Compare the answers side by side and keep the best one.