DeepSeek V3 Chat and Mistral Small don't publish scores on any of the same benchmarks, so there's no direct head-to-head comparison. Mistral Small shipped 279 days before DeepSeek V3 Chat, so benchmark comparisons should account for the intervening progress.

DeepSeek V3 Chat is open weight, while Mistral Small is proprietary.

Direct benchmark comparisons are unavailable — DeepSeek V3 Chat and Mistral Small don't publish scores on any of the same benchmarks.