HEAD TO HEAD

Mistral Small vs Step 2 vs Step 1 vs Discovery

Community vibe score against API price per 1M tokens. Up and left wins: loved and cheap.

4 IS THE MAX. SWAP ONE OUT TO ADD ANOTHER.

VALUE FOR MONEY

NOT ON THE CHART (NO PUBLIC API PRICE):Step 2Step 1DiscoverySTILL IN THE TABLE BELOW. THE CHART ONLY PLOTS MODELS WITH A KNOWN PRICE PER 1M TOKENS.

Metric	Mistral Small x	Step 2 x	Step 1 x	Discovery x
VIBE SCORE	6.7	7.5	7.4	7.6
VOICES	1,137	3,680	3,692	9,505
RANK	#58	#7	#11	#3
CATEGORY	Multimodal	Text	Text	Text
OPEN/CLOSED	OPEN WEIGHTS	CLOSED	CLOSED	OPEN WEIGHTS
PRICE IN (per 1M)	$2.00 / 1M	N/A	N/A	N/A
PRICE OUT (per 1M)	$6.00 / 1M	N/A	N/A	N/A
THE CROWD LOVES	People feel it is worth the money	Popular for coding help	Popular for coding help	Popular for coding help
THE CROWD GRUMBLES	Sometimes makes things up	Sometimes makes things up	Sometimes makes things up	Outages, errors, or limits get in the way

HEAD TO HEAD

Community vibe score against API price per 1M tokens. Up and left wins: loved and cheap.

4 IS THE MAX. SWAP ONE OUT TO ADD ANOTHER.

NOT ON THE CHART (NO PUBLIC API PRICE):Step 2Step 1DiscoverySTILL IN THE TABLE BELOW. THE CHART ONLY PLOTS MODELS WITH A KNOWN PRICE PER 1M TOKENS.

Metric	Mistral Small x	Step 2 x	Step 1 x	Discovery x
VIBE SCORE	6.7	7.5	7.4	7.6
VOICES	1,137	3,680	3,692	9,505
RANK	#58	#7	#11	#3
CATEGORY	Multimodal	Text	Text	Text
OPEN/CLOSED	OPEN WEIGHTS	CLOSED	CLOSED	OPEN WEIGHTS
PRICE IN (per 1M)	$2.00 / 1M	N/A	N/A	N/A
PRICE OUT (per 1M)	$6.00 / 1M	N/A	N/A	N/A
THE CROWD LOVES	People feel it is worth the money	Popular for coding help	Popular for coding help	Popular for coding help
THE CROWD GRUMBLES	Sometimes makes things up	Sometimes makes things up	Sometimes makes things up	Outages, errors, or limits get in the way