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DeepSeek-V3 vs Mistral 8x7B Instruct: Benchmarks, Pricing, and Context Window Comparison

DeepSeek-V3 vs Mistral 8x7B Instruct compares provider, context window, token pricing, benchmark performance, and release timeline in one side-by-side view. Use this page to quickly identify which model is a better fit for your production constraints, quality targets, and estimated cost per request.

Verdict

DeepSeek-V3 has lower listed token pricing, while Mistral 8x7B Instruct can still be preferable if benchmark results better match your workload.

Author: Mirai Minds Research Team

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DeepSeek-V3
to
Mistral 8x7B Instruct
Overview
DeepSeek-V3 was released 13 months after Mistral 8x7B Instruct.
DeepSeek-V3
Mistral 8x7B Instruct
Provider
The entity that provides this model.
DeepSeek
Mistral
Input Context Window
The number of tokens supported by the input context window.
128K
tokens
32K
tokens
Maximum Output Tokens
The number of tokens that can be generated by the model in a single request.
8K
tokens
4,096
tokens
Release Date
When the model was first released.
2024-12-27
2023-12-11
Leaderboard
DeepSeek-V3
Mistral 8x7B Instruct
Rank
Unknown
Unknown
Arena Elo
Not specified.
Not specified.
95% CI
Not specified.
Not specified.
Votes
Not specified.
Not specified.
License
Not specified.
Not specified.
Knowledge Cutoff
Unknown
Unknown
Pricing
DeepSeek-V3
Mistral 8x7B Instruct
Input
Cost of input data provided to the model.
$0.14
per million tokens
$0.70
per million tokens
Output
Cost of output tokens generated by the model.
$0.28
per million tokens
$0.70
per million tokens
Benchmarks
Compare relevant benchmarks between DeepSeek-V3 and Mistral 8x7B Instruct Instruct.
DeepSeek-V3
Mistral 8x7B Instruct
MMLU
Evaluating LLM knowledge acquisition in zero-shot and few-shot settings.
88.5
(5-shot)
Source
70.6
(5-shot)
Source
MMMU
A wide ranging multi-discipline and multimodal benchmark.
Benchmark not available.
Benchmark not available.
HellaSwag
A challenging sentence completion benchmark.
88.9
(10-shot)
Source
Benchmark not available.

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