# DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) vs Mistral Medium 3.5

> Mistral Medium 3.5 has enough public results to be ranked (#151); DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/deepseek-v2-vs-mistral-medium-3-5
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 1

## Summary

- They share 1 benchmark with published results for both. DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) scores higher in 1 category and Mistral Medium 3.5 in 0 categories; one gap is clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in coding, where DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) leads 39.8 to 35.7.

## Snapshot

| | DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) | Mistral Medium 3.5 |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | DeepSeek | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 39.7 | 39.6 |
| Rank | — | 151 |
| Context | — | 262K |
| Input $/M | — | $1.50 |
| Output $/M | — | $7.50 |
| Weights | Open | Open |

## Coding

- DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024): 39.8 (#141)
- Mistral Medium 3.5: 35.7 (#208)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) | Mistral Medium 3.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena WebDev | — | 1263 |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 48.9% | — |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1461 |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 59.4% | — |

## Reasoning

- DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024): —
- Mistral Medium 3.5: 16.6 (#290)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) | Mistral Medium 3.5 |
|---|---|---|
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 124.78 | 141.42 |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 41.4% |
| NYT Connections (extended) | — | 12.9% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1436 |
| BIG-Bench Hard | 78.8% | — |
| HellaSwag | 87.1% | — |
| PIQA | 83.9% | — |
| WinoGrande | 86.3% | — |

## Math

- DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024): —
- Mistral Medium 3.5: 36.4 (#113)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) | Mistral Medium 3.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | — | 1432 |

## Knowledge

- DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024): —
- Mistral Medium 3.5: 39.3 (#123)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) | Mistral Medium 3.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | — | 1431 |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 92.2% | — |
| MMLU | 78.4% | — |
| TriviaQA | 80% | — |

## Multimodal

- DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024): —
- Mistral Medium 3.5: 37.6 (#64)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) | Mistral Medium 3.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | — | 1222 |

## Multilingual

- DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024): —
- Mistral Medium 3.5: 52.1 (#93)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) | Mistral Medium 3.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1405 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1443 |
| LMArena French | — | 1448 |
| LMArena German | — | 1453 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1387 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1396 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1406 |

## Instruction Following

- DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024): —
- Mistral Medium 3.5: 74.7 (#87)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) | Mistral Medium 3.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1414 |

## Long Context

- DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024): —
- Mistral Medium 3.5: 43.2 (#101)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) | Mistral Medium 3.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1414 |

## Writing & Preference

- DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024): —
- Mistral Medium 3.5: 58.6 (#113)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) | Mistral Medium 3.5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1421 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1372 |
| EQ-Bench 4 | — | 993 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1423 |

## FAQ

### Is DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) better than Mistral Medium 3.5?

Mistral Medium 3.5 has enough public results to be ranked (#151); DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

### Is DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) or Mistral Medium 3.5 better for coding?

DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) scores higher on coding benchmarks: 39.8 versus 35.7 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) and Mistral Medium 3.5 share?

1 benchmark has published results for both models. DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) has 10 scored results on Noometry and Mistral Medium 3.5 has 22.