Head-to-Head API Cost Benchmark

DeepSeek R1 Fast (Fireworks AI) vs Mistral Large 2: API Price & Latency Comparison

On a standard B2B production workload (5,000 req/day), Mistral Large 2 is 30.3% cheaper ($922.50/mo vs $1323.75/mo), while DeepSeek R1 Fast (Fireworks AI) leads in token generation speed (150 tok/s).

Side-by-Side Specification & Billing Matrix

Metric DeepSeek R1 Fast (Fireworks AI) (Fireworks AI) Mistral Large 2 (Mistral AI (La Plateforme)) Advantage
Standard Input / 1M Tokens $3.000 $2.000 Mistral Large 2
Cached Input / 1M Tokens $1.500 $1.000 Mistral Large 2
Output Generation / 1M Tokens $8.00 $6.00 Mistral Large 2
Intelligence / Benchmark Quality 1315 LMSYS Elo 1270 LMSYS Elo DeepSeek R1 Fast (Fireworks AI)
Monthly Spend (5k req/day, 50% cache) $1323.75 / mo $922.50 / mo Mistral Large 2 (-30.3%)
Context Window 160,000 tokens 128,000 tokens DeepSeek R1 Fast (Fireworks AI)
Output Speed (Throughput) 150 tokens/sec 90 tokens/sec DeepSeek R1 Fast (Fireworks AI)
Batch API Discount -50% (Fireworks AI) -50% (Mistral AI (La Plateforme)) Fireworks AI
Primary Workload Fit US/EU compliance enterprises needing DeepSeek R1 reasoning at 3x speed Multilingual European enterprise workflows (DE/FR/ES/CS/PL) with EU data residency Workload Dependent
Deploy / Console Access Try DeepSeek R1 Fast (Fireworks AI) → Try Mistral Large 2 → Open Full Simulator