Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Both models show comparable benchmark performance. Mistral Small 3 24B Instruct offers 47.6K more tokens in context window than DeepSeek-V2.5. Both models have similar pricing. Both models have their strengths depending on your specific coding needs.
DeepSeek
DeepSeek-V2.5 was developed as an enhanced iteration of the DeepSeek-V2 architecture, designed to incorporate improvements in model quality and efficiency. Built to advance the DeepSeek foundation model series, it provides refined capabilities for general-purpose language understanding and generation tasks.
Mistral AI
Mistral Small 24B Instruct was created as the instruction-tuned version of the 24B base model, designed to follow user instructions reliably. Built to serve general-purpose applications requiring moderate capability, it balances performance with deployment practicality.
8 months newer

DeepSeek-V2.5
DeepSeek
2024-05-08

Mistral Small 3 24B Instruct
Mistral AI
2025-01-30
Cost per million tokens (USD)

DeepSeek-V2.5

Mistral Small 3 24B Instruct
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 4 common benchmarks

DeepSeek-V2.5

Mistral Small 3 24B Instruct
Mistral Small 3 24B Instruct
2023-10-01
Available providers and their performance metrics

DeepSeek-V2.5
DeepInfra
DeepSeek
Hyperbolic

DeepSeek-V2.5

Mistral Small 3 24B Instruct

DeepSeek-V2.5

Mistral Small 3 24B Instruct

Mistral Small 3 24B Instruct
DeepInfra
Mistral AI