Model comparison

Codestral vs DeepSeek-V2.5 (Sep 2024)

DeepSeek-V2.5 (Sep 2024) is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.6 to 30.6 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 5 shared benchmarks.

Codestral Mistral AI

30.6

Rank #290 Reported

DeepSeek-V2.5 (Sep 2024) DeepSeek

37.6

Rank #200 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 5 benchmarks with published results for both. Codestral scores higher in 0 categories and DeepSeek-V2.5 (Sep 2024) in 2 categories; 2 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where DeepSeek-V2.5 (Sep 2024) leads 25.6 to 19.8.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is BigCodeBench Instruct: 41.8% for Codestral and 48.6% for DeepSeek-V2.5 (Sep 2024).
  • DeepSeek-V2.5 (Sep 2024) has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Codestral and DeepSeek-V2.5 (Sep 2024) specifications
CodestralDeepSeek-V2.5 (Sep 2024)
ProviderMistral AIDeepSeek
Noometry Index30.637.6
Released2024-05-292024-09-06
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window256K—
Max output8K—
Input $ / M tokens$0.30—
Output $ / M tokens$0.90—
Results tracked722

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Category by category

Coding DeepSeek-V2.5 (Sep 2024) leads

Codestral: 27.3 (#321), DeepSeek-V2.5 (Sep 2024): 31.7 (#281)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkCodestralDeepSeek-V2.5 (Sep 2024)
Aider Polyglot11.1%17.8%
BigCodeBench Instruct41.8%48.6%
BigCodeBench Complete52.5%53.2%
HumanEval+73.8%83.5%
MBPP+61.9%74.1%
LMArena Coding—1309
ALE-Bench137.78—

Reasoning DeepSeek-V2.5 (Sep 2024) leads

Codestral: 19.8 (#251), DeepSeek-V2.5 (Sep 2024): 25.6 (#145)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkCodestralDeepSeek-V2.5 (Sep 2024)
Kagi LLM Benchmark32.5%—
LMArena Hard Prompts—1289

Math Not comparable

Codestral: —, DeepSeek-V2.5 (Sep 2024): 35.9 (#177)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkCodestralDeepSeek-V2.5 (Sep 2024)
LMArena Math—1288

Knowledge Not comparable

Codestral: —, DeepSeek-V2.5 (Sep 2024): 34.8 (#193)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkCodestralDeepSeek-V2.5 (Sep 2024)
LMArena Expert—1266

Multilingual Not comparable

Codestral: —, DeepSeek-V2.5 (Sep 2024): 42.5 (#193)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkCodestralDeepSeek-V2.5 (Sep 2024)
LMArena Non-English—1273
LMArena Chinese—1318
LMArena French—1289
LMArena German—1258
LMArena Japanese—1228
LMArena Korean—1209
LMArena Russian—1289
LMArena Spanish—1248

Instruction Following Not comparable

Codestral: —, DeepSeek-V2.5 (Sep 2024): 67.5 (#194)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkCodestralDeepSeek-V2.5 (Sep 2024)
LMArena Instruction Following—1280

Long Context Not comparable

Codestral: —, DeepSeek-V2.5 (Sep 2024): 39.5 (#174)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkCodestralDeepSeek-V2.5 (Sep 2024)
LMArena Longer Query—1301

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Codestral: —, DeepSeek-V2.5 (Sep 2024): 49.8 (#187)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkCodestralDeepSeek-V2.5 (Sep 2024)
LMArena Text—1294
LMArena Creative Writing—1285
LMArena Multi-Turn—1297

Frequently asked questions

Is Codestral better than DeepSeek-V2.5 (Sep 2024)?

DeepSeek-V2.5 (Sep 2024) is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.6 to 30.6 on the Noometry Index.

Is Codestral or DeepSeek-V2.5 (Sep 2024) better for coding?

DeepSeek-V2.5 (Sep 2024) scores higher on coding benchmarks: 31.7 versus 27.3 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Codestral and DeepSeek-V2.5 (Sep 2024) share?

5 benchmarks have published results for both models. Codestral has 7 scored results on Noometry and DeepSeek-V2.5 (Sep 2024) has 22.

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