DeepSeek V4.1 Flash vs Mistral Large 4

Overall
64
vs
Overall
28

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash is clearly better. It wins 70 of the 78 test cases where they differ.

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Task by task

A score turns orange only when that model wins clearly more of the task's test cases. Under each score, the average time per test case on the machine it ran on. DeepSeek V4.1 Flash spends 1.2× as many thinking tokens per test case.

Thinking tokensAnswer tokens
TaskAB
Overall
643m 35s
6K, 91% thinking6.2K, 72% thinking
281m 56s
Agents
464m 42s
6.1K, 82% thinking795, no thinking
1126.1s
Structured Extraction
862m 8s
4.4K, 94% thinking288, no thinking
153.78s
Coding
514m 55s
9.7K, 95% thinking9.3K, 37% thinking
332m 48s
Grounded Answers
762m 17s
3.9K, 90% thinking8.1K, 89% thinking
382m 45s
Instruction Following
894m 24s
7.5K, 94% thinking12.9K, 84% thinking
693m 47s
Business Logic
814m 1s
7K, 97% thinking8.8K, 77% thinking
242m 40s
Security & permissions
693m 3s
4.4K, 81% thinking3.7K, 83% thinking
331m 9s
Diagnosis & investigation
172m 8s
3.2K, 67% thinking4.4K, 85% thinking
01m 19s

What you'd run

The build behind each score. Orange marks the faster, smaller, cheaper or longer-context side.

SpecAB
Speed
30 tok/s
56 tok/s (better)
Machine
Hosted
Hosted
Memory at 32K
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Context
1M (better)
512K
Cost per run
$0.39 (better)
$2.67
Cost per case
$0.0026 (better)
$0.017
Time per case
3m 35s
1m 56s (better)
Quantization
FP8
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Harness
openrouter
openrouter

The race

No lead changes

Each model's running score as the test cases go by. The dashed line is a perfect run.

DeepSeek V4.1 FlashMistral Large 4
025507510050100150Perfect run6428

Every test case

153 test cases

Each square is one test case, colored by the model that scored higher.

70 won by DeepSeek V4.1 Flash8 won by Mistral Large 475 tied