# Codestral vs DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024)

> Codestral has enough public results to be ranked (#287); DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/codestral-vs-deepseek-v2
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 2

## Summary

- They share 2 benchmarks with published results for both. Codestral scores higher in 0 categories and DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) in 1 category; one gap is clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in coding, where DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) leads 39.8 to 26.9.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is BigCodeBench Instruct: 41.8% for Codestral and 48.9% for DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024).

## Snapshot

| | Codestral | DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Mistral AI | DeepSeek |
| Noometry Index | 30.1 | 39.7 |
| Rank | 287 | — |
| Context | 256K | — |
| Input $/M | $0.30 | — |
| Output $/M | $0.90 | — |
| Weights | Open | Open |

## Coding

- Codestral: 26.9 (#316)
- DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024): 39.8 (#141)

| Benchmark | Codestral | DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 41.8% | 48.9% |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 52.5% | 59.4% |
| Aider Polyglot | 11.1% | — |
| ALE-Bench | 137.78 | — |
| HumanEval+ | 73.8% | — |
| MBPP+ | 61.9% | — |

## Reasoning

- Codestral: 19.1 (#244)
- DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024): —

| Benchmark | Codestral | DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 32.5% | — |
| BIG-Bench Hard | — | 78.8% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 124.78 |
| HellaSwag | — | 87.1% |
| PIQA | — | 83.9% |
| WinoGrande | — | 86.3% |

## Knowledge

- Codestral: —
- DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024): —

| Benchmark | Codestral | DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | — | 92.2% |
| MMLU | — | 78.4% |
| TriviaQA | — | 80% |

## FAQ

### Is Codestral better than DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024)?

Codestral has enough public results to be ranked (#287); DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

### Is Codestral or DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) better for coding?

DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) scores higher on coding benchmarks: 39.8 versus 26.9 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do Codestral and DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) share?

2 benchmarks have published results for both models. Codestral has 7 scored results on Noometry and DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) has 10.