Is Mistral: Mistral Medium 3.1 or DeepSeek: R1 cheaper?

Mistral: Mistral Medium 3.1 is cheaper on output tokens ($2.00 vs $2.50 per 1M).

Which has the larger context window, Mistral: Mistral Medium 3.1 or DeepSeek: R1?

Mistral: Mistral Medium 3.1 has the larger context window (131K tokens).

Mistral: Mistral Medium 3.1 vs DeepSeek: R1

Mistral: Mistral Medium 3.1 is cheaper on output tokens, while Mistral: Mistral Medium 3.1 offers a larger context window. Choose Mistral: Mistral Medium 3.1 or DeepSeek: R1 based on the trade-off between cost, context, and the benchmarks that matter for your use case.

Spec	Mistral: Mistral Medium 3.1	DeepSeek: R1
Provider	Kilo Gateway	Kilo Gateway
Input / 1M tokens	$0.40	$0.70
Output / 1M tokens	$2.00	$2.50
Context window	131K	64K
Parameters	—	671B
Open weights	No	Yes
Released	Aug 2025	Jan 2025

Mistral: Mistral Medium 3.1 details →DeepSeek: R1 details →

FAQ

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