Side-by-side comparison of Codestral 22B (Mistral AI · France) and DeepSeek-V4-Flash (DeepSeek · China) for self-hosted deployment of the open-weight model. Codestral 22B is rated conditional; DeepSeek-V4-Flash is conditional. They part ways on licence: Codestral 22B is "MNPL (non-prod)", DeepSeek-V4-Flash is "MIT".
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| Summary | ||
| Verdict | Conditional EU code model trained on 80+ languages. Licensed under Mistral Non-Production License — blocked for any production or commercial deployment without a paid commercial licence. Use Codestral Mamba (Apache 2.0) if you need commercial freedom. | Conditional DeepSeek-V4-Flash is the smaller-active sibling of V4-Pro under the same MIT terms — permissive on the weights, but the China-based vendor and undocumented training corpus mean any EU deployment still needs a self-hosted topology and a deployer-side GPAI documentation file under AI Act Article 53. |
| Last reviewed | 2026-04-15 | 2026-04-28 |
| Open-weight | ||
| Licence | MNPL (non-prod) | MIT |
| Commercial use | Paid licence req. | Unrestricted |
| Training data | Partial | Categories only |
| Origin | EU | China |
| Performance & pricing? | ||
| Quality index | — | 47/100 |
| Speed | — | 79 tok/s |
| Blended price | — | $0.17/M |
| Context window | — | — |
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