HEAD TO HEAD

Codestral vs Step 2 vs Dots3 Note 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 2DiscoverySTILL IN THE TABLE BELOW. THE CHART ONLY PLOTS MODELS WITH A KNOWN PRICE PER 1M TOKENS.

Metric	Codestral x	Step 2 x	Dots3 Note x	Discovery x
VIBE SCORE	6.0	7.5	7.4	7.6
VOICES	166	3,680	2,634	9,505
RANK	#180	#7	#12	#3
CATEGORY	Code	Text	Multimodal	Text
OPEN/CLOSED	OPEN WEIGHTS	CLOSED	OPEN WEIGHTS	OPEN WEIGHTS
PRICE IN (per 1M)	$0.30 / 1M	N/A	FREE	N/A
PRICE OUT (per 1M)	$0.90 / 1M	N/A	FREE	N/A
THE CROWD LOVES	Popular for coding help	Popular for coding help	Popular for coding help	Popular for coding help
THE CROWD GRUMBLES	Nobody is complaining yet	Sometimes makes things up	Refuses or lectures more than people like	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 2DiscoverySTILL IN THE TABLE BELOW. THE CHART ONLY PLOTS MODELS WITH A KNOWN PRICE PER 1M TOKENS.

Metric	Codestral x	Step 2 x	Dots3 Note x	Discovery x
VIBE SCORE	6.0	7.5	7.4	7.6
VOICES	166	3,680	2,634	9,505
RANK	#180	#7	#12	#3
CATEGORY	Code	Text	Multimodal	Text
OPEN/CLOSED	OPEN WEIGHTS	CLOSED	OPEN WEIGHTS	OPEN WEIGHTS
PRICE IN (per 1M)	$0.30 / 1M	N/A	FREE	N/A
PRICE OUT (per 1M)	$0.90 / 1M	N/A	FREE	N/A
THE CROWD LOVES	Popular for coding help	Popular for coding help	Popular for coding help	Popular for coding help
THE CROWD GRUMBLES	Nobody is complaining yet	Sometimes makes things up	Refuses or lectures more than people like	Outages, errors, or limits get in the way