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MAI DS R1 vs Mistral Small 4

Live dataset updated 9/22/2026, 10:37:09 PM UTC

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Factual comparison of MAI DS R1 and Mistral Small 4
Field	MAI DS R1 Microsoft	Mistral Small 4 Mistral AI
ModelCap position	#99	#97
Index score	53.3	54.1
Evidence	Inheritedfinetune of deepseek/deepseek-r1 · finetune (100%)	Measured1 public benchmark observation across 1 board
Input / 1M	Unavailable	$0.15
Output / 1M	Unavailable	$0.60
Pricing status	unavailable	fresh
Context	—	262K
Providers	0	1
Weight access	Open weights	Open weights

Decision facts

MAI DS R1 is #99; Mistral Small 4 is #97 on the same current language board.
Index scores are 53.3 for MAI DS R1 and 54.1 for Mistral Small 4. Their published uncertainty intervals overlap, so the rank difference alone does not establish a reliable capability advantage for your workload.
Evidence differs: MAI DS R1 is Inherited; Mistral Small 4 is Measured.
ModelCap currently lists 0 providers for MAI DS R1 and 1 for Mistral Small 4.

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