Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
DeepSeek-R1 offers 6.1K more tokens in context window than Ministral 8B Instruct. Ministral 8B Instruct is $2.54 cheaper per million tokens. DeepSeek-R1 is available on 5 providers. Both models have their strengths depending on your specific coding needs.
DeepSeek
DeepSeek-R1 is a language model developed by DeepSeek. It supports a 262K token context window for handling large documents. The model is available through 5 API providers. It's licensed for commercial use, making it suitable for enterprise applications. Released in 2025, it represents DeepSeek's latest advancement in AI technology.
Mistral AI
Ministral 8B Instruct is a language model developed by Mistral AI. It achieves strong performance with an average score of 63.3% across 11 benchmarks. It excels particularly in MT-Bench (83.0%), Winogrande (75.3%), ARC-C (71.9%). It supports a 256K token context window for handling large documents. The model is available through 1 API provider. Released in 2024, it represents Mistral AI's latest advancement in AI technology.
3 months newer
Ministral 8B Instruct
Mistral AI
2024-10-16
DeepSeek-R1
DeepSeek
2025-01-20
Cost per million tokens (USD)
DeepSeek-R1
Ministral 8B Instruct
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 11 common benchmarks
DeepSeek-R1
Ministral 8B Instruct
Available providers and their performance metrics
DeepSeek-R1
DeepInfra
DeepSeek
Fireworks
Together
ZeroEval
DeepSeek-R1
Ministral 8B Instruct
DeepSeek-R1
Ministral 8B Instruct
Ministral 8B Instruct
Mistral AI