Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
DeepSeek-V3.1 offers 71.7K more tokens in context window than Ministral 8B Instruct. Ministral 8B Instruct is $1.07 cheaper per million tokens. Both models have their strengths depending on your specific coding needs.
DeepSeek
DeepSeek-V3.1 was developed as an incremental advancement over DeepSeek-V3, designed to refine the mixture-of-experts architecture with improved training techniques. Built to enhance quality and efficiency while maintaining the open-source philosophy, it represents continued iteration on DeepSeek's flagship model line.
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-V3.1
DeepSeek
2025-01-10
Cost per million tokens (USD)

DeepSeek-V3.1

Ministral 8B Instruct
Context window and performance specifications
Available providers and their performance metrics

DeepSeek-V3.1
DeepInfra
Novita

Ministral 8B Instruct

DeepSeek-V3.1

Ministral 8B Instruct

DeepSeek-V3.1

Ministral 8B Instruct
Mistral AI