DeepSeek V3 Base and Magistral Medium don't publish scores on any of the same benchmarks, so there's no direct head-to-head comparison. DeepSeek V3 Base shipped 191 days before Magistral Medium, so benchmark comparisons should account for the intervening progress.

DeepSeek V3 Base is open weight, while Magistral Medium is proprietary.

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