Mistral AI
85 pts
0 wins
VS
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DeepSeek
95 pts
2 wins
🏆 Overall, DeepSeek offers more free value (2/6 categories)
📊 Side-by-Side
Category
Mistral AI
DeepSeek
Free Tier
✅ No explicit limit
✅ 50 requests/day
Free API
✅ Free tier
✅ $5
Rate Limit
1 RPM
2 RPM
Open Source
✅ Yes
✅ Yes
Free Models
2
4
GitHub Stars
⭐ 10,781
⭐ 102,923
🧠 Model Details
Mistral AI 2 models Mistral Large
Europe's strongest model, free to use
Mistral Small
Lightweight and fast, good for daily tasks
DeepSeek 4 models DeepSeek-V4-Pro
Released April 2026, 1.6T param MoE (49B active), 1M context, thinking/non-thinking modes
DeepSeek-V4-Flash
Lightweight V4, 284B params (13B active), 1M context, excellent value
DeepSeek-V3
Previous flagship, still available
DeepSeek-R1
Reasoning model, strong at math/code