Model comparison

DeepSeek-V2.5 (Sep 2024) vs Mistral Small 3.2

DeepSeek-V2.5 (Sep 2024) is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.6 to 31.2 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 0 shared benchmarks.

DeepSeek-V2.5 (Sep 2024) DeepSeek

37.6

Rank #200 Confirmed

Mistral Small 3.2 Mistral AI

31.2

Rank #280 Confirmed

Summary

  • The widest gap is in math, where DeepSeek-V2.5 (Sep 2024) leads 35.9 to 26.3.

Side by side

DeepSeek-V2.5 (Sep 2024) and Mistral Small 3.2 specifications
DeepSeek-V2.5 (Sep 2024)Mistral Small 3.2
ProviderDeepSeekMistral AI
Noometry Index37.631.2
Released2024-09-062025-06-20
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window—256K
Max output—16K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.0938
Output $ / M tokens—$0.25
Results tracked226

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

DeepSeek-V2.5 (Sep 2024): 31.7 (#281), Mistral Small 3.2: —

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek-V2.5 (Sep 2024)Mistral Small 3.2
Aider Polyglot17.8%—
BigCodeBench Instruct48.6%—
LMArena Coding1309—
BigCodeBench Complete53.2%—
HumanEval+83.5%—
MBPP+74.1%—

Reasoning DeepSeek-V2.5 (Sep 2024) leads

DeepSeek-V2.5 (Sep 2024): 25.6 (#145), Mistral Small 3.2: 18.1 (#287)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek-V2.5 (Sep 2024)Mistral Small 3.2
Kagi LLM Benchmark—40.4%
Chess Puzzles—1%
LMArena Hard Prompts1289—
Epoch Capabilities Index—131.74

Math DeepSeek-V2.5 (Sep 2024) leads

DeepSeek-V2.5 (Sep 2024): 35.9 (#177), Mistral Small 3.2: 26.3 (#260)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek-V2.5 (Sep 2024)Mistral Small 3.2
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—30.3%
LMArena Math1288—

Knowledge DeepSeek-V2.5 (Sep 2024) leads

DeepSeek-V2.5 (Sep 2024): 34.8 (#193), Mistral Small 3.2: 26.7 (#256)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek-V2.5 (Sep 2024)Mistral Small 3.2
GPQA Diamond—49.1%
LMArena Expert1266—

Multilingual Not comparable

DeepSeek-V2.5 (Sep 2024): 42.5 (#193), Mistral Small 3.2: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek-V2.5 (Sep 2024)Mistral Small 3.2
LMArena Non-English1273—
LMArena Chinese1318—
LMArena French1289—
LMArena German1258—
LMArena Japanese1228—
LMArena Korean1209—
LMArena Russian1289—
LMArena Spanish1248—

Instruction Following Not comparable

DeepSeek-V2.5 (Sep 2024): 67.5 (#194), Mistral Small 3.2: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek-V2.5 (Sep 2024)Mistral Small 3.2
LMArena Instruction Following1280—

Long Context Not comparable

DeepSeek-V2.5 (Sep 2024): 39.5 (#174), Mistral Small 3.2: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek-V2.5 (Sep 2024)Mistral Small 3.2
LMArena Longer Query1301—

Writing & Preference DeepSeek-V2.5 (Sep 2024) leads

DeepSeek-V2.5 (Sep 2024): 49.8 (#187), Mistral Small 3.2: 45.0 (#224)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek-V2.5 (Sep 2024)Mistral Small 3.2
LMArena Text1294—
LMArena Creative Writing1285—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—1255
LMArena Multi-Turn1297—

Frequently asked questions

Is DeepSeek-V2.5 (Sep 2024) better than Mistral Small 3.2?

DeepSeek-V2.5 (Sep 2024) is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.6 to 31.2 on the Noometry Index.

How many benchmarks do DeepSeek-V2.5 (Sep 2024) and Mistral Small 3.2 share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. DeepSeek-V2.5 (Sep 2024) has 22 scored results on Noometry and Mistral Small 3.2 has 6.

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