# DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) vs Mistral Small 3

> Mistral Small 3 has enough public results to be ranked (#278); 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-small-3
- Last updated: 2026-10-12
- Shared benchmarks: 3

## Summary

- They share 3 benchmarks with published results for both. DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) scores higher in 1 category and Mistral Small 3 in 0 categories; one gap is clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in coding, where DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) leads 40.4 to 36.5.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is BigCodeBench Complete: 59.4% for DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) and 50.4% for Mistral Small 3.

## Snapshot

| | DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) | Mistral Small 3 |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | DeepSeek | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 40.3 | 31.2 |
| Rank | — | 278 |
| Context | — | 33K |
| Input $/M | — | $0.05 |
| Output $/M | — | $0.08 |
| Weights | Open | Open |

## Coding

- DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024): 40.4 (#139)
- Mistral Small 3: 36.5 (#207)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) | Mistral Small 3 |
|---|---|---|
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 48.9% | 45.3% |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 59.4% | 50.4% |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1246 |

## Reasoning

- DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024): —
- Mistral Small 3: 18.9 (#273)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) | Mistral Small 3 |
|---|---|---|
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 124.77 | 127.07 |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 0% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1233 |
| BIG-Bench Hard | 78.8% | — |
| HellaSwag | 87.1% | — |
| PIQA | 83.9% | — |
| WinoGrande | 86.3% | — |

## Math

- DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024): —
- Mistral Small 3: 16.3 (#295)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) | Mistral Small 3 |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 6.7% |
| LMArena Math | — | 1240 |

## Knowledge

- DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024): —
- Mistral Small 3: 25.1 (#263)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) | Mistral Small 3 |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | — | 47.3% |
| Confabulations | — | 25.2% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1202 |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 92.2% | — |
| MMLU | 78.4% | — |
| TriviaQA | 80% | — |

## Multilingual

- DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024): —
- Mistral Small 3: 37.3 (#236)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) | Mistral Small 3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1198 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1204 |
| LMArena French | — | 1203 |
| LMArena German | — | 1211 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1111 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1188 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1216 |

## Instruction Following

- DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024): —
- Mistral Small 3: 63.7 (#229)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) | Mistral Small 3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1214 |

## Long Context

- DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024): —
- Mistral Small 3: 37.8 (#211)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) | Mistral Small 3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1246 |

## Writing & Preference

- DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024): —
- Mistral Small 3: 32.2 (#280)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) | Mistral Small 3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1234 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1195 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 707 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1217 |

## FAQ

### Is DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) better than Mistral Small 3?

Mistral Small 3 has enough public results to be ranked (#278); DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

### Is DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) or Mistral Small 3 better for coding?

DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) scores higher on coding benchmarks: 40.4 versus 36.5 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) and Mistral Small 3 share?

3 benchmarks have published results for both models. DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) has 10 scored results on Noometry and Mistral Small 3 has 24.