Model comparison

DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) vs Mistral Small 3.1

Mistral Small 3.1 has enough public results to be ranked (#269); DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Last verified . 1 shared benchmarks.

Mistral Small 3.1 Mistral AI

31.7

Rank #269 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 1 benchmark with published results for both. DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) scores higher in 1 category and Mistral Small 3.1 in 0 categories; one gap is clear of the uncertainty.

Side by side

DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) and Mistral Small 3.1 specifications
DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024)Mistral Small 3.1
ProviderDeepSeekMistral AI
Noometry Index40.331.7
Released2024-05-072025-03-17
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window—128K
Max output—102K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.35
Output $ / M tokens—$0.56
Results tracked1028

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Category by category

Coding DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) leads

DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024): 40.4 (#139), Mistral Small 3.1: 38.3 (#179)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024)Mistral Small 3.1
BigCodeBench Instruct48.9%—
LMArena Coding—1309
BigCodeBench Complete59.4%—

Reasoning Not comparable

DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024): —, Mistral Small 3.1: 19.7 (#254)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024)Mistral Small 3.1
Epoch Capabilities Index124.77127.48
Chess Puzzles—1%
LMArena Hard Prompts—1278
BIG-Bench Hard78.8%—
HellaSwag87.1%—
PIQA83.9%—
WinoGrande86.3%—

Math Not comparable

DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024): —, Mistral Small 3.1: 14.7 (#301)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024)Mistral Small 3.1
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—3.9%
Omni-MATH—24.8%
LMArena Math—1262

Knowledge Not comparable

DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024): —, Mistral Small 3.1: 22.6 (#271)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024)Mistral Small 3.1
GPQA Diamond—41.9%
MMLU-Pro—61%
GPQA (HELM)—39.2%
LMArena Expert—1257
ARC (AI2) Challenge92.2%—
MMLU78.4%—
TriviaQA80%—

Multimodal Not comparable

DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024): —, Mistral Small 3.1: 33.2 (#99)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024)Mistral Small 3.1
LMArena Vision—1136

Multilingual Not comparable

DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024): —, Mistral Small 3.1: 41.2 (#209)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024)Mistral Small 3.1
LMArena Non-English—1255
LMArena Chinese—1253
LMArena French—1273
LMArena German—1266
LMArena Japanese—1208
LMArena Korean—1206
LMArena Russian—1263
LMArena Spanish—1283

Instruction Following Not comparable

DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024): —, Mistral Small 3.1: 63.6 (#230)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024)Mistral Small 3.1
IFEval—75%
LMArena Instruction Following—1264

Long Context Not comparable

DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024): —, Mistral Small 3.1: 39.5 (#178)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024)Mistral Small 3.1
LMArena Longer Query—1299

Writing & Preference Not comparable

DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024): —, Mistral Small 3.1: 37.0 (#259)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024)Mistral Small 3.1
LMArena Text—1277
LMArena Creative Writing—1253
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—761
WildBench—78.8%
LMArena Multi-Turn—1270

Frequently asked questions

Is DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) better than Mistral Small 3.1?

Mistral Small 3.1 has enough public results to be ranked (#269); DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Is DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) or Mistral Small 3.1 better for coding?

DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) scores higher on coding benchmarks: 40.4 versus 38.3 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) and Mistral Small 3.1 share?

1 benchmark has published results for both models. DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) has 10 scored results on Noometry and Mistral Small 3.1 has 28.

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