# DeepSeek Coder 6.7B vs Ministral 8B

> Ministral 8B has enough public results to be ranked (#325); DeepSeek Coder 6.7B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/deepseek-coder-6-7b-vs-ministral-8b
- Last updated: 2026-10-12
- Shared benchmarks: 0

## Snapshot

| | DeepSeek Coder 6.7B | Ministral 8B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | DeepSeek | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 37.6 | 28.2 |
| Rank | — | 325 |
| Context | — | 262K |
| Input $/M | — | $0.15 |
| Output $/M | — | $0.15 |
| Weights | Open | Open |

## Coding

- DeepSeek Coder 6.7B: 35.8 (#219)
- Ministral 8B: 35.0 (#230)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 6.7B | Ministral 8B |
|---|---|---|
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 35.5% | — |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1202 |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 43.8% | — |
| HumanEval+ | 71.3% | — |
| MBPP+ | 65.6% | — |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- DeepSeek Coder 6.7B: —
- Ministral 8B: 16.4 (#148)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 6.7B | Ministral 8B |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | — | 11.1% |

## Reasoning

- DeepSeek Coder 6.7B: —
- Ministral 8B: 18.4 (#281)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 6.7B | Ministral 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1191 |
| DTBench | — | 45.7% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 89.62 | — |
| WinoGrande | 57.6% | — |

## Math

- DeepSeek Coder 6.7B: —
- Ministral 8B: 25.7 (#267)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 6.7B | Ministral 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | — | 1188 |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 14.9% |
| GSM8K | 21.3% | — |

## Knowledge

- DeepSeek Coder 6.7B: —
- Ministral 8B: 12.6 (#297)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 6.7B | Ministral 8B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | — | 27.1% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 7.4% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1170 |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 36.4% | — |
| MMLU | 36.4% | — |

## Multilingual

- DeepSeek Coder 6.7B: —
- Ministral 8B: 35.1 (#247)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 6.7B | Ministral 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1165 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1193 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1195 |

## Instruction Following

- DeepSeek Coder 6.7B: —
- Ministral 8B: 60.5 (#250)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 6.7B | Ministral 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1161 |

## Long Context

- DeepSeek Coder 6.7B: —
- Ministral 8B: 36.7 (#227)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 6.7B | Ministral 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1212 |

## Writing & Preference

- DeepSeek Coder 6.7B: —
- Ministral 8B: 39.6 (#246)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 6.7B | Ministral 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1191 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1175 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1166 |

## FAQ

### Is DeepSeek Coder 6.7B better than Ministral 8B?

Ministral 8B has enough public results to be ranked (#325); DeepSeek Coder 6.7B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

### Is DeepSeek Coder 6.7B or Ministral 8B better for coding?

They score almost the same on coding (35.8 vs 35.0); test both on your own repository before choosing.

### How many benchmarks do DeepSeek Coder 6.7B and Ministral 8B share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. DeepSeek Coder 6.7B has 9 scored results on Noometry and Ministral 8B has 17.