# DeepSeek Coder 33B vs Mistral Small 3

> Mistral Small 3 has enough public results to be ranked (#268); DeepSeek Coder 33B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/deepseek-coder-33b-vs-mistral-small-3
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 3

## Summary

- They share 3 benchmarks with published results for both. DeepSeek Coder 33B scores higher in 1 category and Mistral Small 3 in 0 categories; one gap is clear of the uncertainty.

## Snapshot

| | DeepSeek Coder 33B | Mistral Small 3 |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | DeepSeek | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 38.3 | 30.9 |
| Rank | — | 268 |
| Context | — | 33K |
| Input $/M | — | $0.05 |
| Output $/M | — | $0.08 |
| Weights | Open | Open |

## Coding

- DeepSeek Coder 33B: 37.4 (#180)
- Mistral Small 3: 36.0 (#203)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 33B | Mistral Small 3 |
|---|---|---|
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 42% | 45.3% |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 51.1% | 50.4% |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1246 |
| HumanEval+ | 75% | — |
| MBPP+ | 70.1% | — |

## Reasoning

- DeepSeek Coder 33B: —
- Mistral Small 3: 18.2 (#269)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 33B | Mistral Small 3 |
|---|---|---|
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 95.74 | 127.06 |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 0% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1233 |
| WinoGrande | 62% | — |

## Math

- DeepSeek Coder 33B: —
- Mistral Small 3: 15.3 (#290)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 33B | Mistral Small 3 |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 6.7% |
| LMArena Math | — | 1240 |
| GSM8K | 35.4% | — |

## Knowledge

- DeepSeek Coder 33B: —
- Mistral Small 3: 25.0 (#258)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 33B | Mistral Small 3 |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | — | 47.3% |
| Confabulations | — | 25.2% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1202 |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 42.2% | — |
| MMLU | 39.4% | — |

## Multilingual

- DeepSeek Coder 33B: —
- Mistral Small 3: 37.5 (#231)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 33B | Mistral Small 3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1198 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1204 |
| LMArena French | — | 1202 |
| LMArena German | — | 1211 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1111 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1188 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1216 |

## Instruction Following

- DeepSeek Coder 33B: —
- Mistral Small 3: 63.9 (#224)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 33B | Mistral Small 3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1214 |

## Long Context

- DeepSeek Coder 33B: —
- Mistral Small 3: 37.8 (#206)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 33B | Mistral Small 3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1246 |

## Writing & Preference

- DeepSeek Coder 33B: —
- Mistral Small 3: 32.4 (#275)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 33B | Mistral Small 3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1234 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1195 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 707 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1217 |

## FAQ

### Is DeepSeek Coder 33B better than Mistral Small 3?

Mistral Small 3 has enough public results to be ranked (#268); DeepSeek Coder 33B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

### Is DeepSeek Coder 33B or Mistral Small 3 better for coding?

DeepSeek Coder 33B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 37.4 versus 36.0 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do DeepSeek Coder 33B and Mistral Small 3 share?

3 benchmarks have published results for both models. DeepSeek Coder 33B has 9 scored results on Noometry and Mistral Small 3 has 24.