Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
. Both models have their strengths depending on your specific coding needs.
Mistral AI
Codestral is a 22-billion-parameter code-specialized model from Mistral AI, released in May 2024 as the company's first dedicated coding model, trained with focus on fill-in-the-middle (FIM) completion, code generation, and repair across 80+ programming languages. Unlike Mistral's general-purpose Apache 2.0 models, Codestral was released under a separate non-production research license, reflecting its positioning as a professional coding tool requiring commercial API access for production deployment. Its FIM support made it particularly valued for IDE integrations and code completion tools that need to insert code within existing contexts rather than only appending to the end.
DeepSeek
DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale is a high-compute variant of DeepSeek-V3.2 with 685 billion total parameters, made available for a limited period in December 2025. It was released without tool-calling support but demonstrated exceptional reasoning performance, achieving gold-medal results in the 2025 IMO and IOI competitions. DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale targets research and benchmarking use cases requiring maximum reasoning capability under an MIT license.
1 year newer

Codestral 22B
Mistral AI
2024-05-29

DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale
DeepSeek
2025-12
Context window and performance specifications
Available providers and their performance metrics
Codestral 22B
DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale
DeepSeek
Codestral 22B
DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale
Codestral 22B
DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale