Model comparison

DeepSeek Coder 6.7B vs Mistral 7B

Mistral 7B has enough public results to be ranked (#346); DeepSeek Coder 6.7B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Last verified . 9 shared benchmarks.

DeepSeek Coder 6.7B DeepSeek

37.1

Unranked Sparse

Mistral 7B Mistral AI

22.9

Rank #346 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 9 benchmarks with published results for both. DeepSeek Coder 6.7B 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 6.7B leads 35.2 to 25.9.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is BigCodeBench Complete: 43.8% for DeepSeek Coder 6.7B and 27.3% for Mistral 7B.

Side by side

DeepSeek Coder 6.7B and Mistral 7B specifications
DeepSeek Coder 6.7BMistral 7B
ProviderDeepSeekMistral AI
Noometry Index37.122.9
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 6.7B leads

DeepSeek Coder 6.7B: 35.2 (#216), Mistral 7B: 25.9 (#321)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek Coder 6.7BMistral 7B
BigCodeBench Instruct35.5%19.5%
BigCodeBench Complete43.8%27.3%
HumanEval+71.3%36%
MBPP+65.6%42.1%
LMArena Coding—1082

Reasoning Not comparable

DeepSeek Coder 6.7B: —, Mistral 7B: 12.6 (#331)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek Coder 6.7BMistral 7B
Epoch Capabilities Index88.88111.97
WinoGrande57.6%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 6.7B: —, Mistral 7B: 7.6 (#319)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek Coder 6.7BMistral 7B
GSM8K21.3%54.4%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—0.3%
LMArena Math—1085
MATH Level 5—3.7%

Knowledge Not comparable

DeepSeek Coder 6.7B: —, Mistral 7B: 7.3 (#306)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek Coder 6.7BMistral 7B
ARC (AI2) Challenge36.4%78.6%
MMLU36.4%62.5%
GPQA Diamond—15.2%
LMArena Expert—1036
BoolQ—87.4%
OpenBookQA—79.8%
TriviaQA—75.2%

Multilingual Not comparable

DeepSeek Coder 6.7B: —, Mistral 7B: 26.0 (#278)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek Coder 6.7BMistral 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 6.7B: —, Mistral 7B: 54.5 (#275)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek Coder 6.7BMistral 7B
LMArena Instruction Following—1060

Long Context Not comparable

DeepSeek Coder 6.7B: —, Mistral 7B: 32.2 (#266)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek Coder 6.7BMistral 7B
LMArena Longer Query—1060

Writing & Preference Not comparable

DeepSeek Coder 6.7B: —, Mistral 7B: 30.9 (#281)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek Coder 6.7BMistral 7B
LMArena Text—1090
LMArena Creative Writing—1068
LMArena Multi-Turn—1062

Frequently asked questions

Is DeepSeek Coder 6.7B better than Mistral 7B?

Mistral 7B has enough public results to be ranked (#346); DeepSeek Coder 6.7B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Is DeepSeek Coder 6.7B or Mistral 7B better for coding?

DeepSeek Coder 6.7B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 35.2 versus 25.9 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do DeepSeek Coder 6.7B and Mistral 7B share?

9 benchmarks have published results for both models. DeepSeek Coder 6.7B has 9 scored results on Noometry and Mistral 7B has 37.

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