# DeepSeek Coder 6.7B vs Mistral 7B

> Mistral 7B has enough public results to be ranked (#351); DeepSeek Coder 6.7B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/deepseek-coder-6-7b-vs-mistral-7b
- Last updated: 2026-10-12
- Shared benchmarks: 9

## Summary

- They share 9 benchmarks with published results for both. DeepSeek Coder 6.7B scores higher in 1 category and Mistral 7B in 0 categories; one gap is clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in coding, where DeepSeek Coder 6.7B leads 35.8 to 26.4.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is BigCodeBench Complete: 43.8% for DeepSeek Coder 6.7B and 27.3% for Mistral 7B.

## Snapshot

| | DeepSeek Coder 6.7B | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | DeepSeek | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 37.6 | 23.0 |
| Rank | — | 351 |
| Context | — | 8K |
| Input $/M | — | $0.25 |
| Output $/M | — | $0.25 |
| Weights | Open | Open |

## Coding

- DeepSeek Coder 6.7B: 35.8 (#219)
- Mistral 7B: 26.4 (#326)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 6.7B | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 35.5% | 19.5% |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 43.8% | 27.3% |
| HumanEval+ | 71.3% | 36% |
| MBPP+ | 65.6% | 42.1% |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1082 |

## Reasoning

- DeepSeek Coder 6.7B: —
- Mistral 7B: 13.1 (#336)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 6.7B | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 89.62 | 112.21 |
| WinoGrande | 57.6% | 75.3% |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 0% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1067 |
| DTBench | — | 42.5% |
| Adversarial NLI | — | 47.1% |
| BIG-Bench Hard | — | 56.1% |
| HellaSwag | — | 81% |
| PIQA | — | 83% |

## Math

- DeepSeek Coder 6.7B: —
- Mistral 7B: 8.1 (#325)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 6.7B | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| GSM8K | 21.3% | 54.4% |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 0.3% |
| LMArena Math | — | 1085 |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 3.7% |

## Knowledge

- DeepSeek Coder 6.7B: —
- Mistral 7B: 7.4 (#311)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 6.7B | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 36.4% | 78.6% |
| MMLU | 36.4% | 62.5% |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 15.2% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1036 |
| BoolQ | — | 87.4% |
| OpenBookQA | — | 79.8% |
| TriviaQA | — | 75.2% |

## Multilingual

- DeepSeek Coder 6.7B: —
- Mistral 7B: 25.8 (#283)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 6.7B | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1012 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1009 |
| LMArena French | — | 1037 |
| LMArena German | — | 987 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 878 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1018 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1026 |

## Instruction Following

- DeepSeek Coder 6.7B: —
- Mistral 7B: 54.2 (#280)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 6.7B | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1060 |

## Long Context

- DeepSeek Coder 6.7B: —
- Mistral 7B: 32.2 (#271)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 6.7B | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1060 |

## Writing & Preference

- DeepSeek Coder 6.7B: —
- Mistral 7B: 30.7 (#286)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 6.7B | Mistral 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1090 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1068 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1062 |

## FAQ

### Is DeepSeek Coder 6.7B better than Mistral 7B?

Mistral 7B has enough public results to be ranked (#351); DeepSeek Coder 6.7B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

### Is DeepSeek Coder 6.7B or Mistral 7B better for coding?

DeepSeek Coder 6.7B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 35.8 versus 26.4 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do DeepSeek Coder 6.7B and Mistral 7B share?

9 benchmarks have published results for both models. DeepSeek Coder 6.7B has 9 scored results on Noometry and Mistral 7B has 37.