DeepSeek V3 Base and Codestral 25.01 don't publish scores on any of the same benchmarks, so there's no direct head-to-head comparison. DeepSeek V3 Base shipped 43 days before Codestral 25.01, so benchmark comparisons should account for the intervening progress.

DeepSeek V3 Base is open weight, while Codestral 25.01 is proprietary.

Direct benchmark comparisons are unavailable — DeepSeek V3 Base and Codestral 25.01 don't publish scores on any of the same benchmarks.