Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Mistral Small 3.1 24B Instruct leads with 11.3% higher average benchmark score. Overall, Mistral Small 3.1 24B Instruct is the stronger choice for coding tasks.
DeepSeek
DeepSeek-VL2-Small was created as a compact vision-language variant, designed to bring multimodal capabilities to applications with limited computational resources. Built to provide visual and textual understanding in a more efficient package, it serves use cases requiring practical deployment of vision-language AI.
Mistral AI
Mistral Small 3.1 24B Instruct was developed as the instruction-tuned version of the 3.1 base model, designed to deliver improved instruction-following with refinements from the updated architecture. Built to serve diverse applications with enhanced reliability, it advances the Small model line's capabilities.
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DeepSeek VL2 Small
DeepSeek
2024-12-13

Mistral Small 3.1 24B Instruct
Mistral AI
2025-03-17
Average performance across 1 common benchmarks

DeepSeek VL2 Small

Mistral Small 3.1 24B Instruct
Available providers and their performance metrics

DeepSeek VL2 Small

Mistral Small 3.1 24B Instruct

DeepSeek VL2 Small

Mistral Small 3.1 24B Instruct