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DeepSeekMistral

Compare AI products	DeepSeek Visit Site	Mistral Visit Site
Rating	9.7	9.2
Category	Chat models	Chat models
Vendor	DeepSeek	Mistral AI
Started	2023	2023
Region	China	Global
China availability	Works in China	Overseas access
Pricing tier	Free tier	Free tier
Current flagship	DeepSeek-V3 / DeepSeek-R1	Mistral Large 3 / Magistral
Open source	Yes	Yes
Self-hostable	Yes	No
Capability tags	ReasoningLow costCodingStrong Chinese	MultimodalLow costCoding
Latest release	May 2026 · DeepSeek V4 Flash / Pro	Apr 2026 · Mistral Large 3
Notes	Open weights, self-hostable	—
Strengths	Frontier open-weights pioneer; V3/R1 rival proprietary flagships at fractional cost R1 shows breathtaking mathematical and coding depth with native Chinese fluency	Europe's open-weight champion; free Le Chat app and competitive API pricing Efficiency-first small models (Ministral/Devstral) excel on edge devices and coding
Caveats	Official web portal and API experience occasional queuing during global traffic spikes	Chinese/Asian corpus depth trails US-CN leaders; long-form Chinese can feel stiff Direct access from China is unreliable; usually routed via hosts or API gateways

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