Model comparison
Deepseek Coder v2 vs Magistral Medium
Deepseek Coder v2 and Magistral Medium score almost the same on the Noometry Index (35.9 vs 35.2), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Last verified . 17 shared benchmarks.
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- They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. Deepseek Coder v2 scores higher in 1 category and Magistral Medium in 7 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in reasoning, where Deepseek Coder v2 leads 23.6 to 8.6.
Side by side
| Deepseek Coder v2 | Magistral Medium | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | DeepSeek | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 35.9 | 35.2 |
| Released | 2024-06-17 | 2025-03-17 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | — | 262K |
| Max output | — | 16K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $2 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $5 |
| Results tracked | 24 | 22 |
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Category by category
Coding Magistral Medium leads
Deepseek Coder v2: 38.1 (#183), Magistral Medium: 39.1 (#161)
| Benchmark | Deepseek Coder v2 | Magistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1251 | 1319 |
| SciCode | — | 39.2% |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 48.2% | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 59.7% | — |
| HumanEval+ | 82.3% | — |
| MBPP+ | 75.1% | — |
Reasoning Deepseek Coder v2 leads
Deepseek Coder v2: 23.6 (#176), Magistral Medium: 8.6 (#348)
| Benchmark | Deepseek Coder v2 | Magistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1207 | 1267 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | — | 0% |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 16.2% |
| ARC-AGI-1 | — | 6.1% |
| CritPt | — | 0.3% |
| WinoGrande | 83.7% | — |
Math Too close to call
Deepseek Coder v2: 34.9 (#190), Magistral Medium: 35.1 (#189)
| Benchmark | Deepseek Coder v2 | Magistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1241 | 1250 |
| GSM8K | 94.5% | — |
Knowledge Magistral Medium leads
Deepseek Coder v2: 32.3 (#212), Magistral Medium: 33.5 (#202)
| Benchmark | Deepseek Coder v2 | Magistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1181 | 1223 |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 64.3% | — |
Multilingual Magistral Medium leads
Deepseek Coder v2: 36.3 (#240), Magistral Medium: 39.6 (#224)
| Benchmark | Deepseek Coder v2 | Magistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1182 | 1232 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1201 | 1227 |
| LMArena French | 1185 | 1267 |
| LMArena German | 1164 | 1248 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1126 | 1175 |
| LMArena Korean | 1104 | 1125 |
| LMArena Russian | 1188 | 1224 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1153 | 1271 |
Instruction Following Magistral Medium leads
Deepseek Coder v2: 61.7 (#242), Magistral Medium: 66.0 (#211)
| Benchmark | Deepseek Coder v2 | Magistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1180 | 1254 |
Long Context Magistral Medium leads
Deepseek Coder v2: 37.0 (#224), Magistral Medium: 39.3 (#183)
| Benchmark | Deepseek Coder v2 | Magistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1219 | 1295 |
Writing & Preference Magistral Medium leads
Deepseek Coder v2: 38.2 (#253), Magistral Medium: 46.3 (#219)
| Benchmark | Deepseek Coder v2 | Magistral Medium |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1191 | 1255 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1120 | 1245 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1177 | 1275 |
Frequently asked questions
Is Deepseek Coder v2 better than Magistral Medium?
Deepseek Coder v2 and Magistral Medium score almost the same on the Noometry Index (35.9 vs 35.2), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Is Deepseek Coder v2 or Magistral Medium better for coding?
Magistral Medium scores higher on coding benchmarks: 39.1 versus 38.1 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Deepseek Coder v2 and Magistral Medium share?
17 benchmarks have published results for both models. Deepseek Coder v2 has 24 scored results on Noometry and Magistral Medium has 22.