Which is cheaper, DeepSeek VL2 or Devstral Medium?
As of August 30, 2026, Devstral Medium is 14% cheaper on blended LLM API pricing. Devstral Medium costs $0.40 per million input tokens and $2.00 per million output tokens ($2.40 blended 1M-in + 1M-out). DeepSeek VL2 costs $0.30 / $2.50 per million tokens ($2.80 blended). Sources: https://api-docs.deepseek.com/quick_start/pricing and https://docs.mistral.ai/platform/pricing/. The cheapest LLM for your app still depends on how many output tokens you generate.
How much does DeepSeek VL2 vs Devstral Medium cost per million tokens?
DeepSeek VL2 DeepSeek API pricing is $0.30 input and $2.50 output per million tokens via Replicate. Devstral Medium Mistral API pricing is $0.40 input and $2.00 output per million tokens via Mistral AI. Use those four numbers, not ChatGPT Plus or Claude Pro subscription prices, when you are comparing APIs.
Which is better for coding, DeepSeek VL2 or Devstral Medium?
Devstral Medium has a published SWE-bench Verified score of 61.6%. DeepSeek VL2 does not have that eval on this page yet.
What is the context window for DeepSeek VL2 vs Devstral Medium?
DeepSeek VL2 supports a 129K token context window, while Devstral Medium supports 128K tokens. DeepSeek VL2 offers a larger context window. Filling a larger window bills more input tokens, so the cheaper-per-million model can still cost more on long documents.
Which model performs better on benchmarks, DeepSeek VL2 or Devstral Medium?
Shared benchmark scores for DeepSeek VL2 and Devstral Medium are still limited. Check the comparison table for the evals each model has published. Check the comparison table for GPQA Diamond, SWE-bench, MMLU, HLE, and the other evals we track. Token price and benchmark score together are the usual LLM comparison, not either number alone.
Is DeepSeek VL2 or Devstral Medium better for production use?
Both DeepSeek VL2 and Devstral Medium are production API models. For cost-sensitive production traffic, Devstral Medium has better economics on the blended 1M-in + 1M-out scale. For maximum capability, weight the benchmark table for your domain. Many production stacks route cheap models for drafts and a frontier model for the hard turn, which is usually cheaper than sending everything to the expensive API.
Can I switch between DeepSeek VL2 and Devstral Medium in my app?
Yes. Call DeepSeek VL2 through Replicate and Devstral Medium through Mistral AI with separate API keys, or through a gateway that already wraps both. Keep prompts in tokens, not characters, when you estimate the invoice. AnotherWrapper templates can swap providers without rewriting auth and billing.
How accurate is this DeepSeek VL2 vs Devstral Medium pricing data?
List rates are the latest published DeepSeek API pricing and Mistral API pricing, quoted per million tokens. Official rate sheets: https://api-docs.deepseek.com/quick_start/pricing and https://docs.mistral.ai/platform/pricing/. Prompt caching, batch APIs, and committed-use discounts can change the invoice. Benchmark scores are from official publications and independent evals, updated as new numbers land.
What is the output token limit for DeepSeek VL2 and Devstral Medium?
DeepSeek VL2 supports up to 129K output tokens per request, while Devstral Medium supports up to 128K output tokens. Output tokens are usually the expensive half of API pricing, so a higher max output cap is a capability, not a discount.
Which model has better throughput, DeepSeek VL2 or Devstral Medium?
DeepSeek VL2 runs at approximately 22 tokens/second while Devstral Medium runs at 137.1 tokens/second. Devstral Medium is faster in raw throughput. Throughput (tokens per second) and time-to-first-token are why two models with the same per-million-token price can still feel different in chat and agents.
How do I switch the models in this DeepSeek VL2 vs Devstral Medium comparison?
Use the model pickers at the top of this LLM comparison. Search any model in the index and the URL updates. Open DeepSeek VL2 or Devstral Medium from the sidebar for the single-model API pricing page, or go back to the LLM pricing table to sort by cheapest blended cost.
