Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
DeepSeek-V3 leads with 23.5% higher average benchmark score. DeepSeek-V3 offers 6.1K more tokens in context window than Ministral 8B Instruct. Ministral 8B Instruct is $1.17 cheaper per million tokens. Overall, DeepSeek-V3 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
Ministral 8B was developed as a compact yet capable model from Mistral AI, designed to provide strong instruction-following with just 8 billion parameters. Built for applications requiring efficient deployment while maintaining reliable performance, it represents Mistral's smallest production-ready offering.
2 months newer

Ministral 8B Instruct
Mistral AI
2024-10-16

DeepSeek-V3
DeepSeek
2024-12-25
Cost per million tokens (USD)

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Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 1 common benchmarks

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Ministral 8B Instruct
Available providers and their performance metrics

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DeepSeek

Ministral 8B Instruct

DeepSeek-V3

Ministral 8B Instruct

DeepSeek-V3

Ministral 8B Instruct
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