Model comparison
DeepSeek Coder 1.3B vs GPT-4
GPT-4 has enough public results to be ranked (#316); DeepSeek Coder 1.3B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.
Last verified . 7 shared benchmarks.
DeepSeekSummary
- They share 7 benchmarks with published results for both. DeepSeek Coder 1.3B scores higher in 0 categories and GPT-4 in 1 category, but none of those gaps is larger than the uncertainty.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is BigCodeBench Complete: 29.6% for DeepSeek Coder 1.3B and 57.2% for GPT-4.
- DeepSeek Coder 1.3B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| DeepSeek Coder 1.3B | GPT-4 | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | DeepSeek | OpenAI |
| Noometry Index | 35.0 | 29.1 |
| Released | 2023-11-02 | 2023-03-14 |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |
| Context window | — | 8K |
| Max output | — | 8K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $30 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $60 |
| Results tracked | 9 | 38 |
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Category by category
Coding Too close to call
DeepSeek Coder 1.3B: 31.2 (#287), GPT-4: 31.6 (#283)
| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 1.3B | GPT-4 |
|---|---|---|
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 22.8% | 46% |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 29.6% | 57.2% |
| HumanEval+ | 60.4% | 79.3% |
| WeirdML | — | 12.4% |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1254 |
| MBPP+ | 54.8% | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
DeepSeek Coder 1.3B: —, GPT-4: —
| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 1.3B | GPT-4 |
|---|---|---|
| METR Time Horizons | — | 36.1% |
Reasoning Not comparable
DeepSeek Coder 1.3B: —, GPT-4: 17.8 (#289)
| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 1.3B | GPT-4 |
|---|---|---|
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 63.6 | 125.89 |
| WinoGrande | 53.3% | 87.5% |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 4% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1241 |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | — | 12% |
| DTBench | — | 62.7% |
| LMCA | — | 17.1% |
| BIG-Bench Hard | — | 75.1% |
| ForecastBench | — | 57.8 |
| HellaSwag | — | 95.3% |
Math Not comparable
DeepSeek Coder 1.3B: —, GPT-4: 10.8 (#309)
| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 1.3B | GPT-4 |
|---|---|---|
| GSM8K | 4.4% | 92% |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 1.1% |
| LMArena Math | — | 1269 |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 23% |
Knowledge Not comparable
DeepSeek Coder 1.3B: —, GPT-4: 18.4 (#282)
| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 1.3B | GPT-4 |
|---|---|---|
| MMLU | 25.8% | 86.4% |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 35.7% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1211 |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 25.4% | — |
| TriviaQA | — | 84.8% |
Multilingual Not comparable
DeepSeek Coder 1.3B: —, GPT-4: 40.6 (#215)
| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 1.3B | GPT-4 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1246 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1242 |
| LMArena French | — | 1283 |
| LMArena German | — | 1251 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1209 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1184 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1251 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1261 |
Instruction Following Not comparable
DeepSeek Coder 1.3B: —, GPT-4: 65.3 (#222)
| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 1.3B | GPT-4 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1241 |
Long Context Not comparable
DeepSeek Coder 1.3B: —, GPT-4: 37.7 (#212)
| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 1.3B | GPT-4 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1244 |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
DeepSeek Coder 1.3B: —, GPT-4: 34.9 (#268)
| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 1.3B | GPT-4 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1263 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1244 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 752 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1257 |
Frequently asked questions
Is DeepSeek Coder 1.3B better than GPT-4?
GPT-4 has enough public results to be ranked (#316); DeepSeek Coder 1.3B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.
Is DeepSeek Coder 1.3B or GPT-4 better for coding?
They score almost the same on coding (31.2 vs 31.6); test both on your own repository before choosing.
How many benchmarks do DeepSeek Coder 1.3B and GPT-4 share?
7 benchmarks have published results for both models. DeepSeek Coder 1.3B has 9 scored results on Noometry and GPT-4 has 38.