Side-by-side comparison of DeepSeek-V4-Pro (DeepSeek · China) and Mistral Small (Mistral AI · France) for self-hosted deployment of the open-weight model. DeepSeek-V4-Pro is rated conditional; Mistral Small is EU-ready. They part ways on licence: DeepSeek-V4-Pro is "MIT", Mistral Small is "Apache 2.0".
| Field | ||
|---|---|---|
| Summary | ||
| Verdict | Conditional Per the published LICENSE file, DeepSeek-V4-Pro ships under MIT with no commercial restrictions, so the weights themselves are deployable. The caveats are non-EU jurisdiction and a training corpus described only by aggregate token count (32T+) without a dataset list — both should be documented in any GDPR or AI Act compliance file before regulated use. | EU-ready Best-in-class permissive licence from an EU vendor. Apache 2.0 means no usage caps, no royalty, no revocation risk. |
| Last reviewed | 2026-04-28 | 2026-04-15 |
| Open-weight | ||
| Licence | MIT | Apache 2.0 |
| Commercial use | Unrestricted | Yes |
| Training data | Categories only | Partial |
| Origin | China | EU |
| Performance & pricing? | ||
| Quality index | 52/100 | 13/100 |
| Speed | 36 tok/s | 152 tok/s |
| Blended price | $2.17/M | $0.15/M |
| Context window | — | — |
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