DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 vs Mistral Medium 3.5
DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 leads Mistral Medium 3.5 on coding, 56.1 to 25.5 on the Vibe Coding Index, and DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 costs 3.8x less per output token ($1.98 vs $7.50 per million). Updated October 21, 2026; 54 benchmarks have a result for both.
DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 or Mistral Medium 3.5: which to pick
Pick DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 for coding: it scores 56.1 on the Vibe Coding Index against 25.5 for Mistral Medium 3.5.
Pick Mistral Medium 3.5 for work measured by LMArena Text: French, where it leads.
- Shared results
- 54
- DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 only
- 24
- Mistral Medium 3.5 only
- 27
- Like-for-like categories
- 7 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
DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813
DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 scores 56.1 against 25.5.
5 and 3 benchmarks behind the scores
Intelligence
AA Intelligence Index
DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813
DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 leads, 36.0 against 14.2.
Same board, both measured
Agentic work
AA Agentic Index
DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813
DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 leads, 41.3 against 7.0.
Same board, both measured
Reasoning
GPQA Diamond
DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813
DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 leads, 92.4% against 34.9%.
Same board, both measured
Knowledge
MMLU Pro
DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813
DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 leads, 87.0% against 75.3%.
Same board, both measured
Web design
Design Arena: websites
No call
Only Mistral Medium 3.5 has a Design Arena: websites result, 1142.
Directional only
General
Vals Index
No call
Only DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 has a Vals Index result, 53.0%.
Directional only
Long documents
Listed context window
DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813
DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 takes 1.05M tokens against 262K.
Listed by OpenRouter
Everyday cost
1K input + 500 output tokens
DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813
DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 $0.0016, Mistral Medium 3.5 $0.0053 per turn.
List prices
Cost per solved task
One SWE-bench Verified task, solved
DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813
DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 $0.10, Mistral Medium 3.5 $6.02.
Published attempt cost and pass rate
At a glance
- Coding index
- DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 56.1 from 5 benchmarks, Mistral Medium 3.5 25.5 from 3 benchmarks.
- Widest category
- Coding, 30.1 points apart on average over 12 shared benchmarks.
- Widest single gap
- Vibe Code Bench (Vals AI): DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 82.3% against Mistral Medium 3.5 2.9%, 79.4 points apart on a 0 to 100 scale.
- Output price
- DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 $1.98 against Mistral Medium 3.5 $7.50 per million output tokens, 3.8x apart.
- Context window
- DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 takes 1.05M tokens, Mistral Medium 3.5 262K.
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 V4 Pro 0813 | Bars | Mistral Medium 3.5 | Ties |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coding | 12 | 0 | ||
| Intelligence | 2 | 0 | ||
| Agentic work | 5 | 0 | ||
| Reasoning | 6 | 0 | ||
| Math | 3 | 0 | ||
| Knowledge | 8 | 0 | ||
| General | 17 | 1 | ||
| All shared boards | 53 | 1 |
CodingLike-for-likeSix of these boards feed the Vibe Coding Index120
| Benchmark | DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 | Mistral Medium 3.5 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| LMArena WebDev | 1582 | 1264 | DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 |
| AA Coding Index | 68.8 | 46.9 | DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 |
| LiveCodeBench (Vals AI) | 87.5% | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 measured |
| SWE-bench Verified (Vals AI) | 96.4% | 66.4% | DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 |
| Terminal-Bench 4 (Vals AI) | 14.1% | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 measured |
| Vibe Code Bench (Vals AI) | 82.3% | 2.9% | DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 |
| Code migration (Vals AI) | 41.5% | 5.1% | DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 |
| ProgramBench (Vals AI) | 0.0% | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 measured |
| IOI (Vals AI) | 51.6% | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 measured |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals AI) | 54.7% | 39.0% | DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 |
| Vibe Code Bench 1-100 (Vals AI) | 17.5% | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 measured |
| SkillsBench (Vals AI) | 53.8% | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 measured |
| CyberBench (Vals AI) | 72.9% | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 measured |
| SciCode | 51.0% | 40.2% | DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 |
| Terminal-Bench Hard (Artificial Analysis run) | Not measured | 33.3% | Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured |
| FrontierCode | 28.5% | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 measured |
| WeirdML | 66.2% | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 measured |
| ALE-Bench | 1403.2 | 764.0 | DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 |
| LMArena Text: coding | 1469 | 1460 | DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 |
| LMArena Text: software and IT | 1462 | 1458 | DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 |
| LMArena WebDev: React | 1588 | 1254 | DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 |
| LMArena WebDev: HTML | 1566 | 1308 | DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 |
| Neither model has a result on the other 17 boards here | |||
IntelligenceLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index20
| Benchmark | DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 | Mistral Medium 3.5 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA Intelligence Index | 36.0 | 14.2 | DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 155.6 | 141.4 | DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 |
Agentic workLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index50
| Benchmark | DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 | Mistral Medium 3.5 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA Agentic Index | 41.3 | 7.0 | DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 |
| SREBench (Vals AI) | 1.9% | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 measured |
| Finance Agent (Vals AI) | 50.4% | 32.1% | DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 |
| Tax Agent Bench (Vals AI) | 26.8% | 4.5% | DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 |
| Legal Research Bench (Vals AI) | 40.9% | 9.1% | DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 |
| Harvey's Legal Agent Benchmark (Vals AI) | 10.8% | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 measured |
| Excel Modeling Benchmark (Vals AI) | 52.8% | 11.2% | DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 |
| Terminal-Bench-Science (Vals AI) | 4.3% | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 measured |
| τ²-Bench Telecom | Not measured | 94.2% | Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured |
| APEX-Agents | 47.3% | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 31 boards here | |||
ReasoningLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index60
| Benchmark | DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 | Mistral Medium 3.5 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 92.4% | 34.9% | DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 |
| GPQA Diamond (Artificial Analysis run) | 92.8% | 74.8% | DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 |
| Humanity's Last Exam (Artificial Analysis run) | 41.0% | 13.8% | DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 |
| GPQA Diamond (Epoch AI run) | 91.7% | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 measured |
| ARC-AGI | 90.5% | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 measured |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 61.3% | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 measured |
| Chess puzzles | 46.0% | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 measured |
| Mystery game puzzles | 43.0% | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 measured |
| LMArena Text: hard prompts | 1458 | 1436 | DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 |
| LMArena Text: expert | 1459 | 1432 | DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 |
| LMArena Text: hard prompts in English | 1463 | 1445 | DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 |
| LMArena Vision: diagrams | Not measured | 1254 | Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured |
| LMArena Vision: homework | Not measured | 1230 | Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | Not measured | 41.4% | Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 8 boards here | |||
MathLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index30
| Benchmark | DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 | Mistral Medium 3.5 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME | 98.6% | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 measured |
| FrontierMath, tiers 1 to 3 | 64.6% | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 measured |
| FrontierMath, tier 4 | 26.8% | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 measured |
| ProofBench | 50.0% | 9.0% | DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 |
| LMArena Text: math | 1441 | 1431 | DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 |
| LMArena Text: mathematical work | 1443 | 1440 | DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 |
| Neither model has a result on the other 7 boards here | |||
KnowledgeLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index80
| Benchmark | DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 | Mistral Medium 3.5 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| MMLU Pro | 87.0% | 75.3% | DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 |
| LegalBench (Vals AI) | 82.4% | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 measured |
| CaseLaw (Vals AI) | Not measured | 44.2% | Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured |
| CorpFin (Vals AI) | 65.4% | 58.8% | DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 |
| TaxEval (Vals AI) | 73.1% | 68.0% | DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 |
| MortgageTax (Vals AI) | Not measured | 28.9% | Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured |
| MedCode (Vals AI) | 42.5% | 33.8% | DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 |
| SimpleQA Verified | 52.9% | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 measured |
| LMArena Text: science | 1457 | 1428 | DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 |
| LMArena Text: medicine and healthcare | 1446 | 1409 | DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 |
| LMArena Text: legal and government | 1459 | 1437 | DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 |
| LMArena Text: business and finance | 1442 | 1426 | DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 |
| Neither model has a result on the other 6 boards here | |||
Web designDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index8 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 | Mistral Medium 3.5 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Design Arena: websites | Not measured | 1142 | Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured |
| Design Arena: UI components | Not measured | 1079 | Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured |
| Design Arena: game dev | Not measured | 1079 | Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured |
| Design Arena: data viz | Not measured | 1120 | Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured |
| Design Arena: 3D | Not measured | 1061 | Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured |
| Design Arena: all code categories | Not measured | 1121 | Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured |
| Design Arena: SVG | Not measured | 950 | Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured |
| Design Arena: ASCII art | Not measured | 1063 | Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 1 board here | |||
GeneralLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index171
| Benchmark | DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 | Mistral Medium 3.5 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vals Index | 53.0% | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 measured |
| SAGE (Vals AI) | Not measured | 37.6% | Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured |
| MedScribe (Vals AI) | 80.2% | 67.7% | DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 |
| Vals Multimodal Index | Not measured | 34.8% | Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured |
| IFBench | Not measured | 68.8% | Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured |
| Long context reasoning (AA-LCR) | 80.3% | 69.3% | DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 |
| DTBench | 93.9% | 75.5% | DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 |
| LMCA | 45.5% | 26.1% | DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 |
| Surface Evolver Bench | Not measured | 26.9% | Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured |
| LMArena Text | 1446 | 1421 | DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 |
| LMArena Text: instruction following | 1448 | 1415 | DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 |
| LMArena Text: creative writing | 1439 | 1374 | DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 |
| LMArena Vision | Not measured | 1222 | Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured |
| LMArena Text: English | 1457 | 1433 | DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 |
| LMArena Text: non-English | 1431 | 1404 | DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 |
| LMArena Text: Chinese | 1481 | 1444 | DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 |
| LMArena Text: German | Not measured | 1453 | Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured |
| LMArena Text: Korean | 1449 | 1384 | DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 |
| LMArena Text: French | 1446 | 1448 | Mistral Medium 3.5 |
| LMArena Text: Spanish | 1435 | 1411 | DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 |
| LMArena Text: Russian | 1448 | 1395 | DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 |
| LMArena Text: Polish | Not measured | 1430 | Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured |
| LMArena Text: multi-turn | 1454 | 1423 | DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 |
| LMArena Text: longer queries | 1458 | 1415 | DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 |
| LMArena Text: writing and language | 1443 | 1384 | DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 |
| LMArena Text: entertainment and media | 1424 | 1382 | DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 |
| LMArena Vision: English | Not measured | 1240 | Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured |
| LMArena Vision: Chinese | Not measured | 1244 | Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured |
| LMArena Vision: reading text | Not measured | 1233 | Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured |
| LMArena Vision: humor | Not measured | 1216 | Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured |
| LMArena Vision: creative writing | Not measured | 1198 | Only Mistral Medium 3.5 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 15 boards here | |||
Image generationNot comparablePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index0 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 | Mistral Medium 3.5 | 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 V4 Pro 0813 costs less
Repository review
50K input + 3K output tokens
DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 costs less
Agent loop
200K input + 10K output tokens
DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 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 V4 Pro 0813 | Mistral Medium 3.5 |
|---|---|---|
| Maker | DeepSeek | Mistral AI |
| Weights | Open weights | No public weights listed |
| Released | August 12, 2026 | April 30, 2026 |
| Context window | 1.05M | 262K |
| Input $/Mtok | $0.66 | $1.50 |
| Output $/Mtok | $1.98 | $7.50 |
| Coding index | 56.1 | 25.5 |
| Independent measurements behind it | 5 | 3 |
| Cost per solved task | $0.10 | $6.02 |
| Source | OpenRouter listing | OpenRouter listing |
Questions
Is DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 better than Mistral Medium 3.5 for coding?
Pick DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 for coding: it scores 56.1 on the Vibe Coding Index against 25.5 for Mistral Medium 3.5. Pick Mistral Medium 3.5 for work measured by LMArena Text: French, where it leads.
Which is cheaper, DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 or Mistral Medium 3.5?
DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 costs $0.66 per million input tokens and $1.98 per million output tokens; Mistral Medium 3.5 costs $1.50 and $7.50. Per solved SWE-bench Verified task, DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 costs $0.10 and Mistral Medium 3.5 $6.02.
Which has the bigger context window, DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 or Mistral Medium 3.5?
DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813, with 1.05M tokens against 262K.
How many benchmarks is the DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 vs Mistral Medium 3.5 comparison based on?
54 benchmarks have a result for both models as of October 21, 2026. DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813's coding index rests on 5 independent benchmarks and Mistral Medium 3.5's on 3. Where only one model has a result, the page says so instead of naming a winner.