DeepSeek V3 0324 vs Mistral Large 4
Mistral Large 4 leads DeepSeek V3 0324 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, 38.4 to 9.7, and DeepSeek V3 0324 costs 3.9x less per output token ($1.07 vs $4.18 per million). Updated October 22, 2026; 9 benchmarks have a result for both.
DeepSeek V3 0324 or Mistral Large 4: which to pick
Only Mistral Large 4 has a coding score, 56.4 on the Vibe Coding Index; DeepSeek V3 0324 has none, so the two cannot be ranked on coding.
Pick DeepSeek V3 0324 for output tokens 3.9x cheaper ($1.07 vs $4.18 per million).
- Shared results
- 9
- DeepSeek V3 0324 only
- 27
- Mistral Large 4 only
- 73
- Like-for-like categories
- 5 of 9
Only benchmarks that tested both models count toward a pick; a result only one model has is shown but not compared.
Which one for your work
Each card is decided by one number both models carry. Where only one has it, the card says so and makes no call.
Coding
Vibe Coding Index, six public coding benchmarks
No call
Only Mistral Large 4 has a coding score, so no call is made.
One side not measured
Intelligence
AA Intelligence Index
Mistral Large 4
Mistral Large 4 leads, 38.4 against 9.7.
Same board, both measured
Agentic work
AA Agentic Index
No call
Only DeepSeek V3 0324 has a AA Agentic Index result, 0.8.
Directional only
Reasoning
GPQA Diamond
No call
Only DeepSeek V3 0324 has a GPQA Diamond result, 61.6%.
Directional only
Math
AIME
No call
Only DeepSeek V3 0324 has a AIME result, 52.2%.
Directional only
Knowledge
MMLU Pro
No call
Only DeepSeek V3 0324 has a MMLU Pro result, 79.5%.
Directional only
Web design
Design Arena: websites
No call
Only Mistral Large 4 has a Design Arena: websites result, 1258.
Directional only
Long documents
Listed context window
Mistral Large 4
Mistral Large 4 takes 1.05M tokens against 164K.
Listed by OpenRouter
Everyday cost
1K input + 500 output tokens
DeepSeek V3 0324
DeepSeek V3 0324 $0.0008, Mistral Large 4 $0.0034 per turn.
List prices
At a glance
- Coding index
- DeepSeek V3 0324 not benchmarked, Mistral Large 4 56.4 from 5 benchmarks.
- Widest category
- Math, 40.1 points apart on average over 2 shared benchmarks.
- Widest single gap
- OTIS Mock AIME: DeepSeek V3 0324 37.8% against Mistral Large 4 98.3%, 60.6 points apart on a 0 to 100 scale.
- Output price
- DeepSeek V3 0324 $1.07 against Mistral Large 4 $4.18 per million output tokens, 3.9x apart.
- Context window
- DeepSeek V3 0324 takes 164K tokens, Mistral Large 4 1.05M.
Benchmark by benchmark
First the score: boards each model leads, per category, where both have a result. Then every board, a category to a fold; bars are each result on a 0 to 100 scale, so compare the two in a row, not one row with another.
| Category | DeepSeek V3 0324 | Bars | Mistral Large 4 | Ties |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coding | 0 | 1 | ||
| Intelligence | 0 | 1 | ||
| Reasoning | 0 | 2 | ||
| Math | 0 | 2 | ||
| General | 0 | 3 | ||
| All shared boards | 0 | 9 |
CodingLike-for-likeSix of these boards feed the Vibe Coding Index01
| Benchmark | DeepSeek V3 0324 | Mistral Large 4 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| SWE-bench Verified | 42.0% | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V3 0324 measured |
| LiveBench coding | Not measured | 60.0% | Only Mistral Large 4 measured |
| LMArena WebDev | Not measured | 1543 | Only Mistral Large 4 measured |
| AA Coding Index | 21.2 | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V3 0324 measured |
| LiveCodeBench (Vals AI) | 65.5% | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V3 0324 measured |
| Terminal-Bench 4 (Vals AI) | Not measured | 27.8% | Only Mistral Large 4 measured |
| Vibe Code Bench (Vals AI) | Not measured | 78.4% | Only Mistral Large 4 measured |
| Code migration (Vals AI) | Not measured | 30.6% | Only Mistral Large 4 measured |
| IOI (Vals AI) | Not measured | 45.3% | Only Mistral Large 4 measured |
| SWE-bench Multimodal (Vals AI) | Not measured | 33.1% | Only Mistral Large 4 measured |
| Vibe Code Bench 1-100 (Vals AI) | Not measured | 14.3% | Only Mistral Large 4 measured |
| LiveCodeBench (Artificial Analysis run) | 40.5% | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V3 0324 measured |
| SciCode | 39.0% | 54.2% | Mistral Large 4 |
| Terminal-Bench Hard (Artificial Analysis run) | 15.2% | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V3 0324 measured |
| FrontierCode | Not measured | 39.4% | Only Mistral Large 4 measured |
| WeirdML | 36.1% | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V3 0324 measured |
| ALE-Bench | Not measured | 1213.2 | Only Mistral Large 4 measured |
| LMArena Text: coding | Not measured | 1478 | Only Mistral Large 4 measured |
| LMArena Text: software and IT | Not measured | 1467 | Only Mistral Large 4 measured |
| LMArena WebDev: React | Not measured | 1559 | Only Mistral Large 4 measured |
| LMArena WebDev: HTML | Not measured | 1487 | Only Mistral Large 4 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 22 boards here | |||
IntelligenceLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index01
| Benchmark | DeepSeek V3 0324 | Mistral Large 4 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA Intelligence Index | 9.7 | 38.4 | Mistral Large 4 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | Not measured | 150.0 | Only Mistral Large 4 measured |
Agentic workDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index12 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | DeepSeek V3 0324 | Mistral Large 4 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA Agentic Index | 0.8 | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V3 0324 measured |
| LiveBench research | Not measured | 28.1% | Only Mistral Large 4 measured |
| LiveBench browser | Not measured | 8.0% | Only Mistral Large 4 measured |
| LiveBench long agentic | Not measured | 11.8% | Only Mistral Large 4 measured |
| Finance Agent (Vals AI) | Not measured | 54.7% | Only Mistral Large 4 measured |
| Tax Agent Bench (Vals AI) | Not measured | 30.4% | Only Mistral Large 4 measured |
| Legal Research Bench (Vals AI) | Not measured | 31.7% | Only Mistral Large 4 measured |
| Harvey's Legal Agent Benchmark (Vals AI) | Not measured | 17.5% | Only Mistral Large 4 measured |
| Excel Modeling Benchmark (Vals AI) | Not measured | 56.2% | Only Mistral Large 4 measured |
| BioMysteryBench (Vals AI) | Not measured | 67.0% | Only Mistral Large 4 measured |
| τ²-Bench Telecom | 47.1% | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V3 0324 measured |
| METR time horizons | 49.6% | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V3 0324 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 30 boards here | |||
ReasoningLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index02
| Benchmark | DeepSeek V3 0324 | Mistral Large 4 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 61.6% | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V3 0324 measured |
| LiveBench reasoning | Not measured | 83.9% | Only Mistral Large 4 measured |
| MysteryMechanism (Vals AI) | Not measured | 12.2% | Only Mistral Large 4 measured |
| GPQA Diamond (Artificial Analysis run) | 65.5% | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V3 0324 measured |
| Humanity's Last Exam (Artificial Analysis run) | 4.7% | 35.0% | Mistral Large 4 |
| GPQA Diamond (Epoch AI run) | 67.6% | 88.1% | Mistral Large 4 |
| SimpleBench | 27.2% | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V3 0324 measured |
| Chess puzzles | Not measured | 33.0% | Only Mistral Large 4 measured |
| Mystery game puzzles | Not measured | 17.0% | Only Mistral Large 4 measured |
| LMArena Text: hard prompts | Not measured | 1444 | Only Mistral Large 4 measured |
| LMArena Text: expert | Not measured | 1444 | Only Mistral Large 4 measured |
| LMArena Text: hard prompts in English | Not measured | 1442 | Only Mistral Large 4 measured |
| LMArena Vision: diagrams | Not measured | 1288 | Only Mistral Large 4 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 10 boards here | |||
MathLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index02
| Benchmark | DeepSeek V3 0324 | Mistral Large 4 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AIME | 52.2% | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V3 0324 measured |
| MATH 500 (Vals AI) | 88.6% | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V3 0324 measured |
| MGSM (Vals AI) | 91.7% | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V3 0324 measured |
| AA Math Index | 41.0 | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V3 0324 measured |
| AIME 2025 (Artificial Analysis run) | 41.0% | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V3 0324 measured |
| OTIS Mock AIME | 37.8% | 98.3% | Mistral Large 4 |
| FrontierMath, tiers 1 to 3 | Not measured | 58.6% | Only Mistral Large 4 measured |
| FrontierMath, tier 4 | Not measured | 26.8% | Only Mistral Large 4 measured |
| ProofBench | Not measured | 10.0% | Only Mistral Large 4 measured |
| MATH level 5 | 75.5% | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V3 0324 measured |
| LMArena Text: math | Not measured | 1469 | Only Mistral Large 4 measured |
| LMArena Text: mathematical work | Not measured | 1462 | Only Mistral Large 4 measured |
| MathArena | 7.1% | 26.7% | Mistral Large 4 |
| Neither model has a result on the other 1 board here | |||
KnowledgeDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index12 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | DeepSeek V3 0324 | Mistral Large 4 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| MMLU Pro | 79.5% | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V3 0324 measured |
| LegalBench (Vals AI) | 77.7% | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V3 0324 measured |
| CorpFin (Vals AI) | 54.7% | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V3 0324 measured |
| TaxEval (Vals AI) | 71.1% | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V3 0324 measured |
| MedQA (Vals AI) | 82.0% | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V3 0324 measured |
| MedCode (Vals AI) | Not measured | 40.7% | Only Mistral Large 4 measured |
| MMLU Pro (Artificial Analysis run) | 81.9% | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V3 0324 measured |
| SimpleQA Verified | Not measured | 20.0% | Only Mistral Large 4 measured |
| LMArena Text: science | Not measured | 1448 | Only Mistral Large 4 measured |
| LMArena Text: medicine and healthcare | Not measured | 1433 | Only Mistral Large 4 measured |
| LMArena Text: legal and government | Not measured | 1425 | Only Mistral Large 4 measured |
| LMArena Text: business and finance | Not measured | 1439 | Only Mistral Large 4 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 8 boards here | |||
Web designDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index9 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | DeepSeek V3 0324 | Mistral Large 4 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Design Arena: websites | Not measured | 1258 | Only Mistral Large 4 measured |
| Design Arena: UI components | Not measured | 1273 | Only Mistral Large 4 measured |
| Design Arena: game dev | Not measured | 1225 | Only Mistral Large 4 measured |
| Design Arena: data viz | Not measured | 1275 | Only Mistral Large 4 measured |
| Design Arena: 3D | Not measured | 1252 | Only Mistral Large 4 measured |
| Design Arena: all code categories | Not measured | 1259 | Only Mistral Large 4 measured |
| Design Arena: SVG | Not measured | 1232 | Only Mistral Large 4 measured |
| Design Arena: ASCII art | Not measured | 1202 | Only Mistral Large 4 measured |
| LiveBench design | Not measured | 65.6% | Only Mistral Large 4 measured |
GeneralLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index03
| Benchmark | DeepSeek V3 0324 | Mistral Large 4 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| LiveBench data analysis | Not measured | 76.5% | Only Mistral Large 4 measured |
| MedScribe (Vals AI) | Not measured | 80.4% | Only Mistral Large 4 measured |
| IFBench | 41.0% | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V3 0324 measured |
| Long context reasoning (AA-LCR) | 40.7% | 81.3% | Mistral Large 4 |
| DTBench | 64.8% | 88.2% | Mistral Large 4 |
| LMCA | 15.5% | 35.8% | Mistral Large 4 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | 50.0% | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V3 0324 measured |
| Creative writing (Lech Mazur) | 77.0% | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V3 0324 measured |
| Surface Evolver Bench | Not measured | 28.1% | Only Mistral Large 4 measured |
| Furniture assembly | Not measured | 20.8% | Only Mistral Large 4 measured |
| LMArena Text | Not measured | 1431 | Only Mistral Large 4 measured |
| LMArena Text: instruction following | Not measured | 1422 | Only Mistral Large 4 measured |
| LMArena Text: creative writing | Not measured | 1363 | Only Mistral Large 4 measured |
| LMArena Vision | Not measured | 1272 | Only Mistral Large 4 measured |
| LMArena Text: English | Not measured | 1433 | Only Mistral Large 4 measured |
| LMArena Text: non-English | Not measured | 1422 | Only Mistral Large 4 measured |
| LMArena Text: Chinese | Not measured | 1492 | Only Mistral Large 4 measured |
| LMArena Text: Japanese | Not measured | 1415 | Only Mistral Large 4 measured |
| LMArena Text: French | Not measured | 1492 | Only Mistral Large 4 measured |
| LMArena Text: Spanish | Not measured | 1455 | Only Mistral Large 4 measured |
| LMArena Text: Russian | Not measured | 1417 | Only Mistral Large 4 measured |
| LMArena Text: multi-turn | Not measured | 1435 | Only Mistral Large 4 measured |
| LMArena Text: longer queries | Not measured | 1428 | Only Mistral Large 4 measured |
| LMArena Text: writing and language | Not measured | 1386 | Only Mistral Large 4 measured |
| LMArena Text: entertainment and media | Not measured | 1378 | Only Mistral Large 4 measured |
| LMArena Vision: English | Not measured | 1283 | Only Mistral Large 4 measured |
| LMArena Vision: reading text | Not measured | 1284 | Only Mistral Large 4 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 21 boards here | |||
Image generationNot comparablePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index0 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | DeepSeek V3 0324 | Mistral Large 4 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Neither model has a result on 5 boards here | |||
What each workload costs
Three fixed token mixes at each model's listed price, so per-token rates become a bill.
Chat turn
1K input + 500 output tokens
DeepSeek V3 0324 costs less
Repository review
50K input + 3K output tokens
DeepSeek V3 0324 costs less
Agent loop
200K input + 10K output tokens
DeepSeek V3 0324 costs less
Listed OpenRouter rates, without cache or batch discounts. A workload that does not fit a model's context window would need splitting.
Specification differences
The leading value in a row is marked; a row with a missing value names no leader. Our two rows are marked in red.
| Specification | DeepSeek V3 0324 | Mistral Large 4 |
|---|---|---|
| Maker | DeepSeek | Mistral AI |
| Weights | Open weights | No public weights listed |
| Released | March 24, 2025 | October 6, 2026 |
| Context window | 164K | 1.05M |
| Input $/Mtok | $0.27 | $1.36 |
| Output $/Mtok | $1.07 | $4.18 |
| Coding index | Not benchmarked | 56.4 |
| Independent measurements behind it | 0 | 5 |
| Cost per solved task | Not computable | Not computable |
| Source | OpenRouter listing | OpenRouter listing |
Questions
Is DeepSeek V3 0324 better than Mistral Large 4 for coding?
Only Mistral Large 4 has a coding score, 56.4 on the Vibe Coding Index; DeepSeek V3 0324 has none, so the two cannot be ranked on coding. Pick DeepSeek V3 0324 for output tokens 3.9x cheaper ($1.07 vs $4.18 per million).
Which is cheaper, DeepSeek V3 0324 or Mistral Large 4?
DeepSeek V3 0324 costs $0.27 per million input tokens and $1.07 per million output tokens; Mistral Large 4 costs $1.36 and $4.18. Cost per solved task is known for neither of them.
Which has the bigger context window, DeepSeek V3 0324 or Mistral Large 4?
Mistral Large 4, with 1.05M tokens against 164K.
How many benchmarks is the DeepSeek V3 0324 vs Mistral Large 4 comparison based on?
9 benchmarks have a result for both models as of October 22, 2026. DeepSeek V3 0324's coding index rests on 0 independent benchmarks and Mistral Large 4's on 5. Where only one model has a result, the page says so instead of naming a winner.