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DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 7B vs Mistral Medium 3

Side by side · benchmarks, pricing, and signals you can act on.

Winner summary

Not enough overlapping benchmarks to declare a winner yet · DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 7B · Mistral Medium 3 are still filling in scores.

Hype vs Reality
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 7B
#251 by perf·no signal
QUIET
Mistral Medium 3
#206 by perf·no signal
QUIET
Best value
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 7B
n/a
no price
Mistral Medium 3
32.8 pts/$
$1.20/M
Vendor risk
One or more vendors flagged
DeepSeek logo
DeepSeek
$3.4B·Tier 1
Higher risk
Mistral AI logo
Mistral AI
$24.0B·Tier 1
Medium risk
Pricing · per 1M tokens · projected $/mo at 10M tokens
ModelInputOutputContextProjected $/mo
DeepSeek logoDeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 7Bn/an/an/an/a
Mistral AI logoMistral Medium 3$0.40$2.00131K tokens (~66 books)$8.00