Model comparison

DeepSeek Coder 1.3B vs Mistral 7B

Mistral 7B has enough public results to be ranked (#346); DeepSeek Coder 1.3B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Last verified . 9 shared benchmarks.

DeepSeek Coder 1.3B DeepSeek

34.5

Unranked Sparse

Mistral 7B Mistral AI

22.9

Rank #346 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 9 benchmarks with published results for both. DeepSeek Coder 1.3B scores higher in 1 category and Mistral 7B in 0 categories; one gap is clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in coding, where DeepSeek Coder 1.3B leads 30.7 to 25.9.

Side by side

DeepSeek Coder 1.3B and Mistral 7B specifications
DeepSeek Coder 1.3BMistral 7B
ProviderDeepSeekMistral AI
Noometry Index34.522.9
Released2023-11-022023-09-27
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window—8K
Max output—8K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.25
Output $ / M tokens—$0.25
Results tracked937

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Category by category

Coding DeepSeek Coder 1.3B leads

DeepSeek Coder 1.3B: 30.7 (#282), Mistral 7B: 25.9 (#321)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek Coder 1.3BMistral 7B
BigCodeBench Instruct22.8%19.5%
BigCodeBench Complete29.6%27.3%
HumanEval+60.4%36%
MBPP+54.8%42.1%
LMArena Coding—1082

Reasoning Not comparable

DeepSeek Coder 1.3B: —, Mistral 7B: 12.6 (#331)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek Coder 1.3BMistral 7B
Epoch Capabilities Index62.18111.97
WinoGrande53.3%75.3%
Chess Puzzles—0%
LMArena Hard Prompts—1067
DTBench—42.5%
Adversarial NLI—47.1%
BIG-Bench Hard—56.1%
HellaSwag—81%
PIQA—83%

Math Not comparable

DeepSeek Coder 1.3B: —, Mistral 7B: 7.6 (#319)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek Coder 1.3BMistral 7B
GSM8K4.4%54.4%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—0.3%
LMArena Math—1085
MATH Level 5—3.7%

Knowledge Not comparable

DeepSeek Coder 1.3B: —, Mistral 7B: 7.3 (#306)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek Coder 1.3BMistral 7B
ARC (AI2) Challenge25.4%78.6%
MMLU25.8%62.5%
GPQA Diamond—15.2%
LMArena Expert—1036
BoolQ—87.4%
OpenBookQA—79.8%
TriviaQA—75.2%

Multilingual Not comparable

DeepSeek Coder 1.3B: —, Mistral 7B: 26.0 (#278)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek Coder 1.3BMistral 7B
LMArena Non-English—1012
LMArena Chinese—1009
LMArena French—1036
LMArena German—987
LMArena Japanese—878
LMArena Russian—1018
LMArena Spanish—1026

Instruction Following Not comparable

DeepSeek Coder 1.3B: —, Mistral 7B: 54.5 (#275)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek Coder 1.3BMistral 7B
LMArena Instruction Following—1060

Long Context Not comparable

DeepSeek Coder 1.3B: —, Mistral 7B: 32.2 (#266)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek Coder 1.3BMistral 7B
LMArena Longer Query—1060

Writing & Preference Not comparable

DeepSeek Coder 1.3B: —, Mistral 7B: 30.9 (#281)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek Coder 1.3BMistral 7B
LMArena Text—1090
LMArena Creative Writing—1068
LMArena Multi-Turn—1062

Frequently asked questions

Is DeepSeek Coder 1.3B better than Mistral 7B?

Mistral 7B has enough public results to be ranked (#346); DeepSeek Coder 1.3B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Is DeepSeek Coder 1.3B or Mistral 7B better for coding?

DeepSeek Coder 1.3B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 30.7 versus 25.9 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do DeepSeek Coder 1.3B and Mistral 7B share?

9 benchmarks have published results for both models. DeepSeek Coder 1.3B has 9 scored results on Noometry and Mistral 7B has 37.

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