Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Magistral Small 2506 leads with 18.1% higher average benchmark score. Overall, Magistral Small 2506 is the stronger choice for coding tasks.
DeepSeek
DeepSeek-V3 was introduced as a major architectural advancement, developed with 671B mixture-of-experts parameters and trained on 14.8 trillion tokens. Built to be three times faster than V2 while maintaining open-source availability, it demonstrates competitive performance against frontier closed-source models and represents a significant leap in efficient large-scale model design.
Mistral AI
Magistral Small was created as an efficient reasoning-focused variant, designed to bring analytical capabilities to applications with tighter resource constraints. Built to balance problem-solving depth with practical deployment needs, it extends reasoning-enhanced AI to broader use cases.
5 months newer

DeepSeek-V3
DeepSeek
2024-12-25

Magistral Small 2506
Mistral AI
2025-06-10
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 3 common benchmarks

DeepSeek-V3

Magistral Small 2506
Magistral Small 2506
2025-06-01
Available providers and their performance metrics

DeepSeek-V3
DeepSeek

Magistral Small 2506

DeepSeek-V3

Magistral Small 2506

DeepSeek-V3

Magistral Small 2506