Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Mistral Small 3.2 24B Instruct leads with 7.9% higher average benchmark score. Overall, Mistral Small 3.2 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 3.2 24B Instruct represents a further evolution of the Small model series, developed with continued refinements to instruction-following and task performance. Built to incorporate ongoing improvements, it provides the latest capabilities in Mistral's intermediate-scale offering.
6 months newer

DeepSeek VL2 Small
DeepSeek
2024-12-13

Mistral Small 3.2 24B Instruct
Mistral AI
2025-06-20
Average performance across 5 common benchmarks

DeepSeek VL2 Small

Mistral Small 3.2 24B Instruct
Mistral Small 3.2 24B Instruct
2023-10-01
Available providers and their performance metrics

DeepSeek VL2 Small

Mistral Small 3.2 24B Instruct

DeepSeek VL2 Small

Mistral Small 3.2 24B Instruct