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Devstral Medium vs Llama 3.1 Nemotron Nano 8B V1

Devstral Medium leads the LLM Stats Score 13.6 to 4.8.

Mistral AI · NVIDIA · Updated for 2026

Which is better?

Devstral Medium leads the overall LLM Stats Score 13.6 to 4.8, ranking #242 overall.

Based on current LLM Stats indexes, shared benchmarks, pricing, and model metadata for 2026.

Choose Devstral Medium

  • overall performance matters — it scores 13.6 and ranks #242 on LLM Stats
  • your work emphasizes reasoning — it leads those capability indexes
  • you want the most recent training data — it shipped Jul 2025

Choose Llama 3.1 Nemotron Nano 8B V1

  • you need open weights you can self-host or fine-tune

At a glance

The differences that matter most.

Devstral Medium
Mistral AI
Llama 3.1 Nemotron Nano 8B V1
NVIDIA
Core performance indexes
LLM Stats Score
13.6
#242
4.8
#299
Reasoning
13.5
#235
5.3
#294
Cost, coverage & limits
Benchmark wins
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Input price
$0.40 / M
— / M
Output price
$2.00 / M
— / M
Context window
128,000
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Individual benchmarks

1 reported for Devstral Medium · 7 for Llama 3.1 Nemotron Nano 8B V1

No common benchmarks found

Devstral Medium and Llama 3.1 Nemotron Nano 8B V1don't have any common benchmark datasets to compare. They may have been evaluated on different testing suites.

Human preference

Blind head-to-head votes and playground preference scores

Context Window

Maximum input and output token capacity

Only Devstral Medium specifies input context (128,000 tokens). Only Devstral Medium specifies output context (128,000 tokens).

Mistral AI
Devstral Medium
Input128,000 tokens
Output128,000 tokens
NVIDIA
Llama 3.1 Nemotron Nano 8B V1
Input- tokens
Output- tokens
Sun Sep 13 2026 • llm-stats.com

License

Usage and distribution terms

Devstral Medium is licensed under a proprietary license, while Llama 3.1 Nemotron Nano 8B V1 uses Llama 3.1 Community License.

License differences may affect how you can use these models in commercial or open-source projects.

Devstral Medium

Proprietary

Closed source

Llama 3.1 Nemotron Nano 8B V1

Llama 3.1 Community License

Open weights

Release Timeline

When each model was launched

Devstral Medium was released on 2025-07-10, while Llama 3.1 Nemotron Nano 8B V1 was released on 2025-03-18.

Devstral Medium is 4 months newer than Llama 3.1 Nemotron Nano 8B V1.

Devstral Medium

Jul 10, 2025

1.2 years ago

3mo newer
Llama 3.1 Nemotron Nano 8B V1

Mar 18, 2025

1.5 years ago

Knowledge Cutoff

When training data ends

Llama 3.1 Nemotron Nano 8B V1 has a documented knowledge cutoff of 2023-12-31, while Devstral Medium's cutoff date is not specified.

We can confirm Llama 3.1 Nemotron Nano 8B V1's training data extends to 2023-12-31, but cannot make a direct comparison without Devstral Medium's cutoff date.

Devstral Medium

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Llama 3.1 Nemotron Nano 8B V1

Dec 2023

Outputs Comparison

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Judge for yourself.

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FAQ

Common questions about Devstral Medium vs Llama 3.1 Nemotron Nano 8B V1.

Which is better, Devstral Medium or Llama 3.1 Nemotron Nano 8B V1?

Devstral Medium leads the LLM Stats Score 13.6 to 4.8. Devstral Medium is made by Mistral AI and Llama 3.1 Nemotron Nano 8B V1 is made by NVIDIA. The best choice depends on your use case — compare their capability indexes, individual benchmarks, pricing, and limits above.

How does Devstral Medium compare to Llama 3.1 Nemotron Nano 8B V1 in benchmarks?

Devstral Medium scores SWE-Bench Verified: 61.6%. Llama 3.1 Nemotron Nano 8B V1 scores MATH-500: 95.4%, MBPP: 84.6%, MT-Bench: 81.0%, IFEval: 79.3%, BFCL v2: 63.6%.

What are the context window sizes for Devstral Medium and Llama 3.1 Nemotron Nano 8B V1?

Devstral Medium supports 128K tokens and Llama 3.1 Nemotron Nano 8B V1 supports an unknown number of tokens. A larger context window lets you process longer documents, conversations, or codebases in a single request.

What are the main differences between Devstral Medium and Llama 3.1 Nemotron Nano 8B V1?

Key differences include LLM Stats Score (13.6 vs 4.8), licensing (Proprietary vs Llama 3.1 Community License). See the full comparison above for benchmark-by-benchmark results.

Who makes Devstral Medium and Llama 3.1 Nemotron Nano 8B V1?

Devstral Medium is developed by Mistral AI and Llama 3.1 Nemotron Nano 8B V1 is developed by NVIDIA.

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