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-Exp (DeepSeek-V3.2 Thinking), released by DeepSeek in September 2025, is the experimental preview release of the DeepSeek-V3.2 model featuring 685 billion total parameters and integrated thinking capabilities. It introduced the architecture and training approaches that became the foundation of the final V3.2 release, including thinking in tool-use and hybrid reasoning modes.
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Codestral 22B
Mistral AI
2024-05-29

DeepSeek-V3.2 Thinking
DeepSeek
2025-09-29
Context window and performance specifications
Available providers and their performance metrics
Codestral 22B
DeepSeek-V3.2 Thinking
DeepSeek
Codestral 22B
DeepSeek-V3.2 Thinking
Codestral 22B
DeepSeek-V3.2 Thinking