DeepSeek-V3-0324 vs Mistral Large 3 2512
API pricing, benchmark indices and specs — updated 19 October 2026.
deepseek-ai · A · Open weights
Params
684.5 B
Context
163,840
30d
734 K
mit · commercial OK
mistralai · B · API-only
Input / 1M
$0.50
Output / 1M
$1.50
AA index
9.3
proprietary · 262.1K context
Specification comparison
Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.
| Specification | DeepSeek-V3-0324 | Mistral Large 3 2512 |
|---|---|---|
| Deployment | Open weights · also via API | API-only (closed weights) |
| Parameters | 684.5 B | n/a — API-only |
| Architecture | DeepseekV3ForCausalLM | n/a — API-only |
| Context length | 163,840 | 262,144 |
| Licence | mit | Proprietary |
| Commercial use | Allowed | Per API terms |
| Languages | — | n/a — API-only |
| Downloads 30d | 734,285 | n/a — API-only |
| Downloads all time | 10.5 M | n/a — API-only |
| Quantizations on the Hub | SAFETENSORS | n/a — API-only |
| Gated | No | n/a — API-only |
| First seen on the Hub | 2025-03-24 | n/a — API-only |
| API input price / 1M tokens | $0.29 | $0.50 |
| API output price / 1M tokens | $1.14 | $1.50 |
| Est. cost per 1M input + 1M output tokens | $1.43 | $2.00 |
| Cached input / 1M tokens | $0.11 | $0.05 |
| AA Intelligence Index | 9.7 | 9.3 |
| AA Coding Index | 21.2 | 20.1 |
| AA Agentic Index | 0.8 | 1 |
| Max output tokens | 115,200 | 209,715 |
| API providers | 2 | 1 |
| Tool calling | Yes | Yes |
| Reasoning mode | No | No |
API cost
Estimated cost of 1M input + 1M output tokens via OpenRouter
DeepSeek-V3-0324
$1.43
Mistral Large 3 2512
$2.00
DeepSeek-V3-0324 is 1.4× cheaper at list price.
VRAM side by side
On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted
DeepSeek-V3-0324 · fp16 @ 160K ctx
2,811.5 GB / 24 GB