# DeepSeek Coder 1.3B vs Ministral 8B

> Ministral 8B has enough public results to be ranked (#321); DeepSeek Coder 1.3B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/deepseek-coder-1-3b-vs-ministral-8b
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 0

## Summary

- The widest gap is in coding, where Ministral 8B leads 34.4 to 30.7.

## Snapshot

| | DeepSeek Coder 1.3B | Ministral 8B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | DeepSeek | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 34.5 | 27.8 |
| Rank | — | 321 |
| Context | — | 128K |
| Input $/M | — | $0.10 |
| Output $/M | — | $0.10 |
| Weights | Open | Open |

## Coding

- DeepSeek Coder 1.3B: 30.7 (#282)
- Ministral 8B: 34.4 (#226)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 1.3B | Ministral 8B |
|---|---|---|
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 22.8% | — |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1202 |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 29.6% | — |
| HumanEval+ | 60.4% | — |
| MBPP+ | 54.8% | — |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- DeepSeek Coder 1.3B: —
- Ministral 8B: 16.2 (#140)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 1.3B | Ministral 8B |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | — | 11.1% |

## Reasoning

- DeepSeek Coder 1.3B: —
- Ministral 8B: 17.7 (#279)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 1.3B | Ministral 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1191 |
| DTBench | — | 45.7% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 62.18 | — |
| WinoGrande | 53.3% | — |

## Math

- DeepSeek Coder 1.3B: —
- Ministral 8B: 23.7 (#262)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 1.3B | Ministral 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | — | 1188 |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 14.9% |
| GSM8K | 4.4% | — |

## Knowledge

- DeepSeek Coder 1.3B: —
- Ministral 8B: 12.5 (#292)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 1.3B | Ministral 8B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | — | 27.1% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 7.4% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1170 |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 25.4% | — |
| MMLU | 25.8% | — |

## Multilingual

- DeepSeek Coder 1.3B: —
- Ministral 8B: 35.3 (#242)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 1.3B | Ministral 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1165 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1193 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1195 |

## Instruction Following

- DeepSeek Coder 1.3B: —
- Ministral 8B: 60.7 (#245)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 1.3B | Ministral 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1161 |

## Long Context

- DeepSeek Coder 1.3B: —
- Ministral 8B: 36.7 (#222)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 1.3B | Ministral 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1212 |

## Writing & Preference

- DeepSeek Coder 1.3B: —
- Ministral 8B: 39.8 (#241)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 1.3B | Ministral 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1191 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1175 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1166 |

## FAQ

### Is DeepSeek Coder 1.3B better than Ministral 8B?

Ministral 8B has enough public results to be ranked (#321); DeepSeek Coder 1.3B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

### Is DeepSeek Coder 1.3B or Ministral 8B better for coding?

Ministral 8B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 34.4 versus 30.7 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do DeepSeek Coder 1.3B and Ministral 8B share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. DeepSeek Coder 1.3B has 9 scored results on Noometry and Ministral 8B has 17.