Model comparison

Deepseek Coder v2 vs Mistral 7B

Deepseek Coder v2 is the stronger model overall, scoring 35.9 to 23.0 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 23 shared benchmarks.

Deepseek Coder v2 DeepSeek

35.9

Rank #220 Confirmed

Mistral 7B Mistral AI

23.0

Rank #351 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 23 benchmarks with published results for both. Deepseek Coder v2 scores higher in 8 categories and Mistral 7B in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Deepseek Coder v2 leads 34.9 to 8.1.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is BigCodeBench Complete: 59.7% for Deepseek Coder v2 and 27.3% for Mistral 7B.

Side by side

Deepseek Coder v2 and Mistral 7B specifications
Deepseek Coder v2Mistral 7B
ProviderDeepSeekMistral AI
Noometry Index35.923.0
Released2024-06-172023-09-27
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window—8K
Max output—8K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.25
Output $ / M tokens—$0.25
Results tracked2437

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Category by category

Coding Deepseek Coder v2 leads

Deepseek Coder v2: 38.1 (#183), Mistral 7B: 26.4 (#326)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepseek Coder v2Mistral 7B
BigCodeBench Instruct48.2%19.5%
LMArena Coding12511082
BigCodeBench Complete59.7%27.3%
HumanEval+82.3%36%
MBPP+75.1%42.1%

Reasoning Deepseek Coder v2 leads

Deepseek Coder v2: 23.6 (#176), Mistral 7B: 13.1 (#336)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepseek Coder v2Mistral 7B
LMArena Hard Prompts12071067
WinoGrande83.7%75.3%
Chess Puzzles—0%
DTBench—42.5%
Adversarial NLI—47.1%
BIG-Bench Hard—56.1%
Epoch Capabilities Index—112.21
HellaSwag—81%
PIQA—83%

Math Deepseek Coder v2 leads

Deepseek Coder v2: 34.9 (#190), Mistral 7B: 8.1 (#325)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepseek Coder v2Mistral 7B
LMArena Math12411085
GSM8K94.5%54.4%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—0.3%
MATH Level 5—3.7%

Knowledge Deepseek Coder v2 leads

Deepseek Coder v2: 32.3 (#212), Mistral 7B: 7.4 (#311)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepseek Coder v2Mistral 7B
LMArena Expert11811036
ARC (AI2) Challenge64.3%78.6%
GPQA Diamond—15.2%
BoolQ—87.4%
MMLU—62.5%
OpenBookQA—79.8%
TriviaQA—75.2%

Multilingual Deepseek Coder v2 leads

Deepseek Coder v2: 36.3 (#240), Mistral 7B: 25.8 (#283)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepseek Coder v2Mistral 7B
LMArena Non-English11821012
LMArena Chinese12011009
LMArena French11851037
LMArena German1164987
LMArena Japanese1126878
LMArena Russian11881018
LMArena Spanish11531026
LMArena Korean1104—

Instruction Following Deepseek Coder v2 leads

Deepseek Coder v2: 61.7 (#242), Mistral 7B: 54.2 (#280)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepseek Coder v2Mistral 7B
LMArena Instruction Following11801060

Long Context Deepseek Coder v2 leads

Deepseek Coder v2: 37.0 (#224), Mistral 7B: 32.2 (#271)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepseek Coder v2Mistral 7B
LMArena Longer Query12191060

Writing & Preference Deepseek Coder v2 leads

Deepseek Coder v2: 38.2 (#253), Mistral 7B: 30.7 (#286)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepseek Coder v2Mistral 7B
LMArena Text11911090
LMArena Creative Writing11201068
LMArena Multi-Turn11771062

Frequently asked questions

Is Deepseek Coder v2 better than Mistral 7B?

Deepseek Coder v2 is the stronger model overall, scoring 35.9 to 23.0 on the Noometry Index.

Is Deepseek Coder v2 or Mistral 7B better for coding?

Deepseek Coder v2 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 38.1 versus 26.4 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Deepseek Coder v2 and Mistral 7B share?

23 benchmarks have published results for both models. Deepseek Coder v2 has 24 scored results on Noometry and Mistral 7B has 37.

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