Model comparison

DeepSeek Coder 1.3B vs Gemma 3 4B

Gemma 3 4B has enough public results to be ranked (#320); DeepSeek Coder 1.3B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Last verified . 1 shared benchmarks.

DeepSeek Coder 1.3B DeepSeek

34.5

Unranked Sparse

Gemma 3 4B Google

27.9

Rank #320 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 1 benchmark with published results for both. DeepSeek Coder 1.3B scores higher in 0 categories and Gemma 3 4B in 1 category; one gap is clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in coding, where Gemma 3 4B leads 35.3 to 30.7.

Side by side

DeepSeek Coder 1.3B and Gemma 3 4B specifications
DeepSeek Coder 1.3BGemma 3 4B
ProviderDeepSeekGoogle
Noometry Index34.527.9
Released2023-11-022025-03-12
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window—131K
Max output—4K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.04
Output $ / M tokens—$0.08
Results tracked922

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Category by category

Coding Gemma 3 4B leads

DeepSeek Coder 1.3B: 30.7 (#282), Gemma 3 4B: 35.3 (#214)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek Coder 1.3BGemma 3 4B
BigCodeBench Instruct22.8%—
LMArena Coding—1230
BigCodeBench Complete29.6%—
HumanEval+60.4%—
MBPP+54.8%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

DeepSeek Coder 1.3B: —, Gemma 3 4B: 20.7 (#134)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek Coder 1.3BGemma 3 4B
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—19.6%

Reasoning Not comparable

DeepSeek Coder 1.3B: —, Gemma 3 4B: 12.7 (#330)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek Coder 1.3BGemma 3 4B
Epoch Capabilities Index62.18116.02
Kagi LLM Benchmark—25.2%
Chess Puzzles—0%
LMArena Hard Prompts—1253
DTBench—50.9%
LMCA—2.8%
WinoGrande53.3%—

Math Not comparable

DeepSeek Coder 1.3B: —, Gemma 3 4B: 15.8 (#286)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek Coder 1.3BGemma 3 4B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—7.5%
LMArena Math—1239
GSM8K4.4%—

Knowledge Not comparable

DeepSeek Coder 1.3B: —, Gemma 3 4B: 11.8 (#294)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek Coder 1.3BGemma 3 4B
GPQA Diamond—23.2%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—6.4%
LMArena Expert—1223
ARC (AI2) Challenge25.4%—
MMLU25.8%—

Multilingual Not comparable

DeepSeek Coder 1.3B: —, Gemma 3 4B: 42.7 (#189)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek Coder 1.3BGemma 3 4B
LMArena Non-English—1273
LMArena German—1281
LMArena Russian—1294

Instruction Following Not comparable

DeepSeek Coder 1.3B: —, Gemma 3 4B: 65.4 (#219)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek Coder 1.3BGemma 3 4B
LMArena Instruction Following—1239

Long Context Not comparable

DeepSeek Coder 1.3B: —, Gemma 3 4B: 38.6 (#189)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek Coder 1.3BGemma 3 4B
LMArena Longer Query—1274

Writing & Preference Not comparable

DeepSeek Coder 1.3B: —, Gemma 3 4B: 42.2 (#234)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek Coder 1.3BGemma 3 4B
LMArena Text—1291
LMArena Creative Writing—1270
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—1068
LMArena Multi-Turn—1255

Frequently asked questions

Is DeepSeek Coder 1.3B better than Gemma 3 4B?

Gemma 3 4B has enough public results to be ranked (#320); DeepSeek Coder 1.3B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Is DeepSeek Coder 1.3B or Gemma 3 4B better for coding?

Gemma 3 4B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 35.3 versus 30.7 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do DeepSeek Coder 1.3B and Gemma 3 4B share?

1 benchmark has published results for both models. DeepSeek Coder 1.3B has 9 scored results on Noometry and Gemma 3 4B has 22.

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