Question 1

Which is cheaper, DeepSeek V3 or Mistral Large?

Accepted Answer

DeepSeek V3 is cheaper for both input ($0.27/M tokens) and output ($1.10/M tokens), compared to Mistral Large at $2.00/$6.00 per million tokens.

Question 2

Which is faster, DeepSeek V3 or Mistral Large?

Accepted Answer

DeepSeek V3 is faster at 85 tokens/sec with a TTFT of 220ms, compared to Mistral Large at 75 tokens/sec and 280ms TTFT.

Question 3

Which has a bigger context window, DeepSeek V3 or Mistral Large?

Accepted Answer

DeepSeek V3 has a 128K token context window, which is equal to Mistral Large's 128K context window.

Question 4

Which is better for coding, DeepSeek V3 or Mistral Large?

Accepted Answer

DeepSeek V3 has a higher coding ELO of 1300 compared to Mistral Large's 1240, making it the stronger choice for code generation and programming tasks.

Feature	DeepSeek V3	Mistral Large
Provider	DeepSeek	Mistral
Input Price / 1M tokens	$0.200	$0.500
Output Price / 1M tokens	$0.770	$1.50
Context Window	128K	128K
Max Output Tokens	8,192	8,192
Arena ELO	1,280	1,245
Coding ELO	1,300	1,240
TTFT (ms)	220	280
Tokens/sec	85	75
Multimodal	No	No
JSON Mode	Yes	Yes
Function Calling	Yes	Yes
Vision	No	No

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