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DeepSeek API vs Mistral API: which is more reliable? (2026)
DeepSeek API is more reliable than Mistral API, scoring 76.0 vs 72.0 out of 100. Over the last 90 days DeepSeek API reported 26 incidents and Mistral API reported 16, with effective uptime of 100% and 99.63% respectively.
Data updated Nov 1, 2026 · How we score
VS
| Metric | DeepSeek API | Mistral API |
|---|---|---|
| Reliability score | 76.0 | 72.0 |
| Rank (LLM API providers) | #6 | #7 |
| Uptime (90 days) | 100% | 99.63% |
| Incidents (90 days) | 26 | 16 |
| Partial / major outages | 3 | 5 |
| Avg time to resolve | — | 1h 9m |
| Outages we detected | 0 | 0 |
| Transparency score | 100/100 | 100/100 |
Where DeepSeek API and Mistral API differ
- DeepSeek API reported 63% more incidents than Mistral API over the last 90 days (26 vs 16).
- Mistral API had 5 partial or major outages, compared with 3 for DeepSeek API.
90-day uptime
DeepSeek API
Mistral API
- No incidents
- Degraded
- Partial outage
- Major outage
- No data
Recent DeepSeek API incidents
- Degraded performanceOct 27, 2026 · resolved (duration not published)
- Major outageOct 15, 2026 · resolved (duration not published)
DeepSeek 网页/API 部分中断（DeepSeek Web/API Partially Unavailable）
- Degraded performanceOct 12, 2026 · resolved (duration not published)
- Degraded performanceOct 8, 2026 · resolved (duration not published)
- Degraded performanceOct 1, 2026 · resolved (duration not published)
- Degraded performanceSep 23, 2026 · resolved (duration not published)
Recent Mistral API incidents
- Degraded performanceOct 23, 2026 · resolved in 2h 50m
- Degraded performanceOct 13, 2026 · resolved in 27m
- Partial outageOct 12, 2026 · resolved in 35m
- Major outageSep 29, 2026 · resolved in 2h 46m
Elevated error rate on some of our servicesofficial update ↗
- Degraded performanceSep 29, 2026 · resolved in 29m
- Partial outageSep 22, 2026 · resolved in 38m
Other LLM API providers to consider
- Perplexity API · #1 · 99.94% uptime
- Cohere · #2 · 99.94% uptime
- Groq · #3 · 99.94% uptime
- Cerebras Inference · #4 · 99.88% uptime