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DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 vs Mixtral 8x7B Instruct

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Winner summary

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 wins 1 of 1 shared benchmarks. Leads in knowledge.

Category leads
knowledge·DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017
Hype vs Reality
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017
#41 by perf·#4 by attention
DESERVED
Mixtral 8x7B Instruct
#64 by perf·no signal
QUIET
Best value
2.4x better value than Mixtral 8x7B Instruct
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017
254.9 pts/$
$0.25/M
Mixtral 8x7B Instruct
107.0 pts/$
$0.54/M
Vendor risk
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DeepSeek logo
DeepSeek
$3.4B·Tier 1
Higher risk
Mistral AI logo
Mistral AI
$24.0B·Tier 1
Medium risk
Head to head
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017Mixtral 8x7B Instruct
GPQA diamond
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 leads by +87.3
Graduate-Level Google-Proof QA (Diamond set) · expert-crafted questions in physics, biology, and chemistry that are difficult even for domain PhDs.
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017
94.7
Mixtral 8x7B Instruct
7.5
Full benchmark table
BenchmarkDeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017Mixtral 8x7B Instruct
GPQA diamond
Graduate-Level Google-Proof QA (Diamond set) · expert-crafted questions in physics, biology, and chemistry that are difficult even for domain PhDs.
94.77.5
Pricing · per 1M tokens · projected $/mo at 10M tokens
ModelInputOutputContextProjected $/mo
DeepSeek logoDeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017$0.01$0.501.0M tokens (~524 books)$1.29
Mistral AI logoMixtral 8x7B Instruct$0.54$0.5433K tokens (~16 books)$5.40