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| Attribute | Mistral Small Creativemistral-small-creative | DeepSeek V4.1 Flashdeepseek-v4.1-flash |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | ||
| Input | $0.10 / 1M | $0.30 / 1M |
| Output | $0.30 / 1M | $1.20 / 1M |
| Cache Write (5m) | $0.10 / 1M | $0.30 / 1M |
| Cache Write (1h) | $0.10 / 1M | $0.30 / 1M |
| Cache Read | $0.10 / 1M | $0.30 / 1M |
| Web Search | $0 / 1M | $0 / 1M |
| Context | ||
| Max context | 32.8K | 1M |
| Max output | N/A | N/A |
| Capabilities | ||
| Vision | No | Yes |
| Function Calling | Yes | Yes |
| JSON Mode | Yes | Yes |
| Streaming | Yes | Yes |
| Catalogue | ||
| Provider | Mistral AI | DeepSeek |
| Category | chat | chat |
| Charge type | Pay As You Go | Pay As You Go |
| Released | — | — |
| Description | ||
| Summary | Mistral Small Creative is an experimental lightweight model focused on creative writing and storytelling. It excels at narrative generation, roleplay, character dialogue, and general instruction-following for conversational agents. | DeepSeek V4.1 Flash is a cost-efficient sparse Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) model in DeepSeek's V4.1 family, optimized for coding, reasoning, and agentic workflows. Despite its efficiency-focused positioning, DeepSeek reports that it surpasses the previous V4 Pro in performance, inference speed, and overall task completion time. The model is particularly strong at long-horizon, multi-step execution, making it well suited for coding agents, complex problem solving, and autonomous workflows that must reliably carry tasks through to completion. |