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DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 7B vs Mistral Small 3 24B Instruct

DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 7B and Mistral Small 3 24B Instruct are closely matched at 8.5 and 4.4 on the LLM Stats Score.

DeepSeek · Mistral AI · Updated for 2026

Which is better?

DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 7B and Mistral Small 3 24B Instruct are closely matched on the overall LLM Stats Score at 8.5 and 4.4.

In the 1 individual benchmarks reported for both models, DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 7B wins 1; this is a narrower head-to-head signal than the composite indexes.

Based on current LLM Stats indexes, shared benchmarks, pricing, and model metadata for 2026.

Choose DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 7B

  • you value its reported benchmark strengths — it wins 1 of 1 exact shared results

Choose Mistral Small 3 24B Instruct

  • you want the most recent training data — it shipped Jan 2025

At a glance

The differences that matter most.

DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 7B
DeepSeek
Mistral Small 3 24B Instruct
Mistral AI
Core performance indexes
LLM Stats Score
8.5
#266
4.4
#290
Reasoning
8.8
#255
3.9
#286
Coding
2.2
#219
4.8
#198
Cost, coverage & limits
Benchmark wins
1 of 1
0 of 1
Input price
— / M
$0.07 / M
Output price
— / M
$0.14 / M
Context window
—
32,000

Capability indexes

Additional strengths measured across groups of related public benchmarks

1 shared
Index
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 7B
Mistral Small 3 24B Instruct
Math
14.1#213
7.1#259
Conservative TrueSkill rating · higher is betterHow scores work

Individual benchmarks

4 reported for DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 7B · 8 for Mistral Small 3 24B Instruct

1 shared

DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 7B outperforms in 1 benchmarks (GPQA), while Mistral Small 3 24B Instruct is better at 0 benchmarks.

DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 7B significantly outperforms across most benchmarks.

Fri Sep 04 2026 • llm-stats.com

Human preference

Blind head-to-head votes and playground preference scores

Model Size

Parameter count comparison

16.4B diff

Mistral Small 3 24B Instruct has 16.4B more parameters than DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 7B, making it 215.0% larger.

DeepSeek
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 7B
7.6Bparameters
Mistral AI
Mistral Small 3 24B Instruct
24.0Bparameters
7.6B
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 7B
24.0B
Mistral Small 3 24B Instruct

Context Window

Maximum input and output token capacity

Only Mistral Small 3 24B Instruct specifies input context (32,000 tokens). Only Mistral Small 3 24B Instruct specifies output context (32,000 tokens).

DeepSeek
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 7B
Input- tokens
Output- tokens
Mistral AI
Mistral Small 3 24B Instruct
Input32,000 tokens
Output32,000 tokens
Fri Sep 04 2026 • llm-stats.com

License

Usage and distribution terms

DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 7B is licensed under MIT, while Mistral Small 3 24B Instruct uses Apache 2.0.

License differences may affect how you can use these models in commercial or open-source projects.

DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 7B

MIT

Open weights

Mistral Small 3 24B Instruct

Apache 2.0

Open weights

Release Timeline

When each model was launched

DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 7B was released on 2025-01-20, while Mistral Small 3 24B Instruct was released on 2025-01-30.

Mistral Small 3 24B Instruct is 0 month newer than DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 7B.

DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 7B

Jan 20, 2025

1.6 years ago

Mistral Small 3 24B Instruct

Jan 30, 2025

1.6 years ago

1w newer

Knowledge Cutoff

When training data ends

Mistral Small 3 24B Instruct has a documented knowledge cutoff of 2023-10-01, while DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 7B's cutoff date is not specified.

We can confirm Mistral Small 3 24B Instruct's training data extends to 2023-10-01, but cannot make a direct comparison without DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 7B's cutoff date.

DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 7B

—

Mistral Small 3 24B Instruct

Oct 2023

Outputs Comparison

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Judge for yourself.

Run your own prompts against DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 7B and Mistral Small 3 24B Instruct side-by-side, then vote on the output you prefer.

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FAQ

Common questions about DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 7B vs Mistral Small 3 24B Instruct.

Which is better, DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 7B or Mistral Small 3 24B Instruct?

DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 7B and Mistral Small 3 24B Instruct are closely matched on the LLM Stats Score at 8.5 and 4.4. DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 7B is made by DeepSeek and Mistral Small 3 24B Instruct is made by Mistral AI. The best choice depends on your use case — compare their capability indexes, individual benchmarks, pricing, and limits above.

How does DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 7B compare to Mistral Small 3 24B Instruct in benchmarks?

DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 7B scores MATH-500: 92.8%, AIME 2024: 83.3%, GPQA: 49.1%, LiveCodeBench: 37.6%. Mistral Small 3 24B Instruct scores Arena Hard: 87.6%, HumanEval: 84.8%, MT-Bench: 83.5%, IFEval: 82.9%, MATH: 70.6%.

What are the context window sizes for DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 7B and Mistral Small 3 24B Instruct?

DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 7B supports an unknown number of tokens and Mistral Small 3 24B Instruct supports 32K tokens. A larger context window lets you process longer documents, conversations, or codebases in a single request.

What are the main differences between DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 7B and Mistral Small 3 24B Instruct?

Key differences include LLM Stats Score (8.5 vs 4.4), licensing (MIT vs Apache 2.0). See the full comparison above for benchmark-by-benchmark results.

Who makes DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 7B and Mistral Small 3 24B Instruct?

DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 7B is developed by DeepSeek and Mistral Small 3 24B Instruct is developed by Mistral AI.

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