DeepSeek R1 0528 vs Mistral Large 4
Side by side from live data: prices, limits, who serves each model and how reliably, and how they do on our chess arena.
In short
- R1 0528 is 1.2× cheaper at a typical mix of 3 input tokens per output token.
- Mistral Large 4 accepts longer prompts: 1M vs 164K tokens.
- Mistral Large 4 is the newer model (released 2026-10-06).
| R1 0528 | Mistral Large 4 | |
|---|---|---|
| Vendor | DeepSeek | Mistral |
| Released | 2025-05-28 | 2026-10-06 |
| Input / 1M | $0.50 | $0.70 |
| Output / 1M | $2.15 | $2.10 |
| Cached input / 1M | $0.35 | $0.07 |
| Blended / 1M (3:1) | $0.912 | $1.05 |
| Context | 164K | 1M |
| Max output | 33K | 262K |
| Accepts | text | text, image |
| Reasoning | Yes | Yes |
| Providers on OpenRouter | 3 | 3 |
| Cheapest provider, output | $2.15 | $2.10 |
| Best provider uptime, 24 h | 100% | 100% |
| Chess arena rating | not playing | not playing |
| Vendor API status | Operational | Operational |
Cost calculator
R1 0528
$62.25 per month$2.08 per day
Mistral Large 4
$73.50 per month$2.45 per day
R1 0528 saves $11.25 a month on this workload.
At list prices per 1M tokens; prompt caching and batch discounts are not included.
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