InferIndex · https://inferindex.dev/en/compare/deepseek-ai/deepseek-r1-distill-qwen-7b/vs/mistralai/mistral-small-3.1-24b-instruct
DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-7B costs from $0.15 per million tokens and Mistral Small 3.1 24B from $0.15 (at a 3:1 input:output mix): the cheapest price for each; prices checked on .
Verdict
At these prices, the two models cost about the same per million tokens (at a 3:1 input:output mix).
Each model's lowest blended price, per 1M tokens, across every provider we track.
| Model | Lowest blended price, $ per 1M tokens. Green background: the most favourable value of each column. | Input price of the cheapest offer, per 1M tokens | Output price of the cheapest offer, per 1M tokens | The provider's published policy says the text you send is not used to train models. We only show what is published; we can't check it ourselves. | For 2,000 input tokens and 500 output tokens per request, 1,000 requests a day, at the cheapest offer for that workload. Change the workload above. | Offers | Providers | The maximum amount of text, counted in tokens, the model can take in and write in a single request. Past this limit, the request is refused or cut. | Observation |
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| Most expensive offer · $0.71. The highest blended price among comparable offers: one price per provider (its cheapest route), standard tier, current prices only. Priority tiers and prices converted from points are not counted. | $0.15 | $0.15, most favourable value of the column | – | $11.25at Nscale via Hugging Face | 2 | 2 | 131k | ||
| Most expensive offer · $0.402. The highest blended price among comparable offers: one price per provider (its cheapest route), standard tier, current prices only. Priority tiers and prices converted from points are not counted. | $0.10, most favourable value of the column | $0.30 | $0.15 | $10.50, most favourable value of the columnat NanoGPT | 8 | 6, most favourable value of the column | 128k |
Green background: the most favourable value of each column.
Prices as of Oct 30, 2026, 11:54 PM UTCSame rules as the API's /cheapest route. The monthly estimate uses the cheapest offer for that workload.