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DeepSeek V4 Flash vs Mixtral 8x7B Instruct

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

Winner summary

Not enough overlapping benchmarks to declare a winner yet · DeepSeek V4 Flash · Mixtral 8x7B Instruct are still filling in scores.

Hype vs Reality
DeepSeek V4 Flash
#46 by perf·#4 by attention
DESERVED
Mixtral 8x7B Instruct
#64 by perf·no signal
QUIET
Best value
4.3x better value than Mixtral 8x7B Instruct
DeepSeek V4 Flash
456.3 pts/$
$0.14/M
Mixtral 8x7B Instruct
107.0 pts/$
$0.54/M
Vendor risk
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DeepSeek logo
DeepSeek
$3.4B·Tier 1
Higher risk
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Mistral AI
$24.0B·Tier 1
Medium risk
Pricing · per 1M tokens · projected $/mo at 10M tokens
ModelInputOutputContextProjected $/mo
DeepSeek logoDeepSeek V4 Flash$0.09$0.181.0M tokens (~524 books)$1.13
Mistral AI logoMixtral 8x7B Instruct$0.54$0.5433K tokens (~16 books)$5.40