DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 vs Mistral Small 4: Release Comparison

Name: Intelligence
Creator: Artificial Analysis
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Comparison of the DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 and Mistral Small 4 releases: 3 and 2 models respectively, each with different intelligence, performance, and pricing characteristics. Below is a comparison of the key metrics across all 5 models.

For intelligence, DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 scores highest: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 (Max) at 32, against Mistral Small 4 (Reasoning) at 4 for Mistral Small 4.
For output speed, DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 is fastest: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 (Non-reasoning) at 185 t/s, against Mistral Small 4 (Reasoning) at 158 t/s for Mistral Small 4.
For cost per task, Mistral Small 4 is cheapest: Mistral Small 4 (Reasoning) at $0.04, against DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 (Non-reasoning) at $0.43 for DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017.

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Releases compared


	DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 (max)	DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 (high)	DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 (non-reasoning)	Mistral Small 4	Mistral Small 4 (non-reasoning)
Intelligence Index	32	29	19	4	--
Finance & Accounting	42	39	37	12	--
Strategy & Ops	49	48	40	7	--
Legal	38	34	32	12	--
Healthcare & Medical	41	--	--	9	--
Engineering	37	34	25	13	--
Economics	40	37	34	12	--
AA-Briefcase v1.1	1570	1416	1426	241	--
AutomationBench-AA	66.6%	68.5%	48.8%	1.0%	--
Terminal-Bench 4.0	33.8%	28.8%	9.1%	0.0%	--
FrontierCode 2.0	28.5%	16.8%	6.1%	0.0%	--
AA-Omniscience v1.1	1	2	2	−31	--
GDP.pdf	17.2%	14.2%	4.4%	0.0%	--
HLE-Diamond	25.3%	20.8%	7.1%	4.4%	--
CritPt v2 (Hard Subset)	24.0%	26.5%	1.0%	0.0%	--
Terminal-Bench-Science 0.1	12.9%	10.5%	2.4%	0.0%	--

Cost per TaskUSD	$0.60	--	$0.43	$0.04	--
Input PriceUSD/1M Tokens	$0.30	$0.30	$0.30	$0.15	$0.15
Output PriceUSD/1M Tokens	$1.20	$1.20	$1.20	$0.60	$0.60
Cache Hit PriceUSD/1M Tokens	$0.006	$0.006	$0.006	$0.015	$0.015
Cache Write PriceUSD/1M Tokens	--	--	--	--	--

Output SpeedTokens/s	170	--	185	158	152
Time to First Tokens	1.28	--	1.38	0.75	0.79
Time to First Answer Tokens	13.01	--	1.38	13.40	0.79
End-to-End Response Times	15.94	--	4.08	16.56	4.08
Time per Tasks	596.73	--	349.80	85.33	--

Context Window	1M	1M	1M	256k	256k
Creator	DeepSeek	DeepSeek	DeepSeek	Mistral	Mistral
License	Open	Open	Open	Open	Open
Input Modality	Supports: text and image	Supports: text and image	Supports: text and image	Supports: text and image	Supports: text and image
Output Modality	Supports: text	Supports: text	Supports: text	Supports: text	Supports: text
Providers	+16

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Intelligence

Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index · Higher is better

Speed

Output tokens per second · Higher is better

Cost per Task

Weighted average cost (USD) per Intelligence Index task · Lower is better

IntelligenceUpdated

Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index

Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v5.0 incorporates 9 evaluations: AA-Briefcase v1.1, AutomationBench-AA, Terminal-Bench 4.0, FrontierCode 2.0, AA-Omniscience v1.1, GDP.pdf, HLE-Diamond, CritPt v2 (Hard Subset), and Terminal-Bench-Science 0.1

Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v5.0 includes: AA-Briefcase v1.1, AutomationBench-AA, Terminal-Bench 4.0, FrontierCode 2.0, AA-Omniscience v1.1, GDP.pdf, HLE-Diamond, CritPt v2 (Hard Subset), Terminal-Bench-Science 0.1. See Intelligence Index methodology for further details, including a breakdown of each evaluation and how we run them.

Intelligence Index vs. Cost per Task

Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index · Weighted average cost (USD) per Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index task

Most attractive quadrant

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017

Pareto line

AA-Briefcase v1.1

AutomationBench-AA

Cost per Task (USD, Log Scale)

Weighted average cost per Intelligence Index task. Each evaluation’s cost is calculated from input, cache hit, cache write, reasoning, and answer token prices, divided by task count, and weighted by its Intelligence Index weight.

Cost

Cost per Intelligence Index Task

Weighted average cost (USD) per Intelligence Index task · Segmented by token type · Lower is better

Speed & Latency

Output Speed

Output tokens per second · Higher is better

Tokens per second received while the model is generating tokens (ie. after first chunk has been received from the API for models which support streaming).

Figures represent performance of the model's first-party API or the median across providers where a first-party API is not available.

Capability Scores

Capability Indexes

Measures the performance of models on specific capabilities and industries

Finance & Accounting Index

Incorporates 5 evaluations: AA-Briefcase v1.1, AA-Omniscience v1.1, HLE-Diamond, AutomationBench-AA, GDP.pdf · Higher is better

Strategy & Ops Index

Incorporates 4 evaluations: AutomationBench-AA, AA-Briefcase v1.1, AA-Omniscience v1.1, GDP.pdf · Higher is better

Legal Index

Incorporates 5 evaluations: AA-Omniscience v1.1, AA-Briefcase v1.1, HLE-Diamond, GDP.pdf, AutomationBench-AA · Higher is better

Healthcare & Medical Index

Incorporates 5 evaluations: AA-Omniscience v1.1, AA-Briefcase v1.1, MLCR-AA, AutomationBench-AA, HLE-Diamond · Higher is better

Engineering Index

Incorporates 7 evaluations: AA-Omniscience v1.1, CritPt v2 (Hard Subset), Terminal-Bench-Science 0.1, HLE-Diamond, Terminal-Bench 4.0, FrontierCode 2.0, AA-Briefcase v1.1 · Higher is better

Economics Index

Incorporates 4 evaluations: AA-Briefcase v1.1, AA-Omniscience v1.1, HLE-Diamond, GDP.pdf · Higher is better

Benchmarks

AA-PersonalityBenchNew

Personality Indexes

Each axis is one of 8 personality indexes: the mean of its traits’ Elo z-scores, percentile ranked from 1 to 100 across all models evaluated in the benchmark

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 vs Mistral Small 4: Release Comparison

Intelligence

Speed

Cost per Task

IntelligenceUpdated

Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index

Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index

Intelligence Index vs. Cost per Task

Cost per Intelligence Index Task

Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index

Cost

Cost per Intelligence Index Task

Cost per Intelligence Index Task

Speed & Latency

Output Speed

Output Speed

Model Performance Representation

Capability Scores

Capability Indexes

Benchmarks

AA-PersonalityBenchNew

Personality Indexes