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DeepSeek vs. Mistral

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DeepSeek

DeepSeek

Overview

DeepSeek currently offers V3 and R1 models, both of which are highly efficient and performant. V3 is comparable to models such as Anthropic's Sonnet 3.5, while R1 is comparable to models such as OpenAI's o1.


DeepSeek is a Chinese startup that began releasing LLMs in 2023 with DeepSeek Coder. In rapid succession, DeepSeek has since released more powerful models, most notably releasing DeepSeek V3 at the end of 2024 and DeepSeek R1 at the beginning of 2025. DeepSeek V3 and R1 set the frontier in terms of efficiency while maintaining high performance. The release of V3 and R1 sent shockwaves through the US technology sector, especially given the low cost with which V3 and R1 were trained (orders of magnitude less than the cost of training equivalent US models.)


Initial release: 2023-11-29

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Mistral

Mistral

Overview

Developed by some of the researchers behind Llama, the Mistral large language models were an early standard for accessible and performant open source models.


Mistral AI offers 7B and mixture-of-experts models (8x7B Mixtral and 8x22B Mixtral) that are competitive or better than commercial models of similar size. Available under the Apache 2.0 license, the Mistral models are now also available via most cloud vendors. The latest Mixtral 8x22B represents state-of-the-art performance in the open-source domain. Mistral AI has also begun offering proprietary Small, Large, and Edge models via their business API.


Initial release: 2023-09-27

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DeepSeek

Mistral
Products & Features
Instruct Models
Coding Capability
Customization
Finetuning
Open Source
License MIT Apache 2.0
Model Sizes 67B, 671B 7B, 8x7B, 8x22B

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