# Deepseek Coder v2 vs Mistral Large

> Deepseek Coder v2 is the stronger model overall, scoring 35.3 to 31.6 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/deepseek-coder-v2-vs-mistral-large
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 21

## Summary

- They share 21 benchmarks with published results for both. Deepseek Coder v2 scores higher in 4 categories and Mistral Large in 4 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where Deepseek Coder v2 leads 32.3 to 17.1.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is BigCodeBench Complete: 59.7% for Deepseek Coder v2 and 38.3% for Mistral Large.

## Snapshot

| | Deepseek Coder v2 | Mistral Large |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | DeepSeek | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 35.3 | 31.6 |
| Rank | 217 | 258 |
| Context | — | 131K |
| Input $/M | — | $2 |
| Output $/M | — | $6 |
| Weights | Open | Open |

## Coding

- Deepseek Coder v2: 37.5 (#178)
- Mistral Large: 33.8 (#240)

| Benchmark | Deepseek Coder v2 | Mistral Large |
|---|---|---|
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 48.2% | 30% |
| LMArena Coding | 1251 | 1277 |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 59.7% | 38.3% |
| HumanEval+ | 82.3% | 62.2% |
| MBPP+ | 75.1% | 59.5% |
| SciCode | — | 36.2% |
| LiveBench Coding | — | 47.1% |
| ALE-Bench | — | 264.7 |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Deepseek Coder v2: —
- Mistral Large: 28.4 (#83)

| Benchmark | Deepseek Coder v2 | Mistral Large |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | — | 38.4% |

## Reasoning

- Deepseek Coder v2: 22.6 (#175)
- Mistral Large: 15.4 (#305)

| Benchmark | Deepseek Coder v2 | Mistral Large |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1207 | 1257 |
| SimpleBench | — | 22.5% |
| CritPt | — | 0% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | — | 43.5% |
| DTBench | — | 65.1% |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | — | 50.1% |
| LMCA | — | 16.7% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 128.52 |
| ForecastBench | — | 57.1 |
| LiveBench | — | 48.4% |
| WinoGrande | 83.7% | — |

## Math

- Deepseek Coder v2: 32.3 (#188)
- Mistral Large: 17.1 (#285)

| Benchmark | Deepseek Coder v2 | Mistral Large |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1241 | 1262 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 8.5% |
| Omni-MATH | — | 28.1% |
| LiveBench Math | — | 42.5% |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 50.3% |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | — | 0.3% |
| GSM8K | 94.5% | — |

## Knowledge

- Deepseek Coder v2: 31.7 (#209)
- Mistral Large: 30.0 (#224)

| Benchmark | Deepseek Coder v2 | Mistral Large |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1181 | 1232 |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 51.3% |
| MMLU-Pro | — | 59.9% |
| Confabulations | — | 21.4% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 4.5% |
| GPQA (HELM) | — | 43.5% |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 64.3% | — |
| MMLU | — | 80% |

## Multilingual

- Deepseek Coder v2: 36.4 (#235)
- Mistral Large: 40.1 (#214)

| Benchmark | Deepseek Coder v2 | Mistral Large |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1182 | 1237 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1201 | 1240 |
| LMArena French | 1184 | 1324 |
| LMArena German | 1164 | 1254 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1126 | 1187 |
| LMArena Korean | 1104 | 1202 |
| LMArena Russian | 1188 | 1257 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1153 | 1268 |

## Instruction Following

- Deepseek Coder v2: 61.9 (#237)
- Mistral Large: 68.1 (#186)

| Benchmark | Deepseek Coder v2 | Mistral Large |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1180 | 1249 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | — | 67.9% |
| IFEval | — | 87.7% |

## Long Context

- Deepseek Coder v2: 37.0 (#219)
- Mistral Large: 38.3 (#194)

| Benchmark | Deepseek Coder v2 | Mistral Large |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1219 | 1262 |

## Writing & Preference

- Deepseek Coder v2: 38.4 (#249)
- Mistral Large: 40.9 (#237)

| Benchmark | Deepseek Coder v2 | Mistral Large |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1191 | 1266 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1120 | 1243 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1176 | 1260 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | — | 69% |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 985 |
| WildBench | — | 80.1% |
| LiveBench Language | — | 39.4% |

## FAQ

### Is Deepseek Coder v2 better than Mistral Large?

Deepseek Coder v2 is the stronger model overall, scoring 35.3 to 31.6 on the Noometry Index.

### Is Deepseek Coder v2 or Mistral Large better for coding?

Deepseek Coder v2 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 37.5 versus 33.8 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do Deepseek Coder v2 and Mistral Large share?

21 benchmarks have published results for both models. Deepseek Coder v2 has 24 scored results on Noometry and Mistral Large has 51.