Model comparison

DeepSeek Coder 1.3B vs GPT-4.1 nano

GPT-4.1 nano has enough public results to be ranked (#327); DeepSeek Coder 1.3B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Last verified . 1 shared benchmarks.

DeepSeek Coder 1.3B DeepSeek

35.0

Unranked Sparse

GPT-4.1 nano OpenAI

27.9

Rank #327 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 1 benchmark with published results for both. DeepSeek Coder 1.3B scores higher in 1 category and GPT-4.1 nano in 0 categories; one gap is clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in coding, where DeepSeek Coder 1.3B leads 31.2 to 24.1.
  • DeepSeek Coder 1.3B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

DeepSeek Coder 1.3B and GPT-4.1 nano specifications
DeepSeek Coder 1.3BGPT-4.1 nano
ProviderDeepSeekOpenAI
Noometry Index35.027.9
Released2023-11-022025-04-14
WeightsOpenProprietary
Context window—1.05M
Max output—33K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.10
Output $ / M tokens—$0.40
Results tracked938

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Category by category

Coding DeepSeek Coder 1.3B leads

DeepSeek Coder 1.3B: 31.2 (#287), GPT-4.1 nano: 24.1 (#330)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek Coder 1.3BGPT-4.1 nano
Aider Polyglot—8.9%
SciCode—25.9%
WeirdML—19%
BigCodeBench Instruct22.8%—
LMArena Coding—1306
BigCodeBench Complete29.6%—
HumanEval+60.4%—
MBPP+54.8%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

DeepSeek Coder 1.3B: —, GPT-4.1 nano: 26.5 (#104)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek Coder 1.3BGPT-4.1 nano
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—33%

Reasoning Not comparable

DeepSeek Coder 1.3B: —, GPT-4.1 nano: 8.5 (#349)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek Coder 1.3BGPT-4.1 nano
Epoch Capabilities Index63.6129.62
ARC-AGI-2—0%
Kagi LLM Benchmark—33.3%
ARC-AGI-1—0%
CritPt—0%
LMArena Hard Prompts—1286
DTBench—52.5%
LMCA—5.5%
WinoGrande53.3%—

Math Not comparable

DeepSeek Coder 1.3B: —, GPT-4.1 nano: 26.9 (#252)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek Coder 1.3BGPT-4.1 nano
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—28.9%
Omni-MATH—36.7%
LMArena Math—1274
MATH Level 5—70%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—1%
GSM8K4.4%—

Knowledge Not comparable

DeepSeek Coder 1.3B: —, GPT-4.1 nano: 21.8 (#273)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek Coder 1.3BGPT-4.1 nano
GPQA Diamond—48.9%
SimpleQA Verified—6%
MMLU-Pro—55%
GPQA (HELM)—50.7%
LMArena Expert—1272
ARC (AI2) Challenge25.4%—
MMLU25.8%—

Multimodal Not comparable

DeepSeek Coder 1.3B: —, GPT-4.1 nano: 29.2 (#113)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek Coder 1.3BGPT-4.1 nano
LMArena Vision—1063

Multilingual Not comparable

DeepSeek Coder 1.3B: —, GPT-4.1 nano: 41.6 (#205)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek Coder 1.3BGPT-4.1 nano
LMArena Non-English—1260
LMArena Chinese—1270
LMArena German—1288
LMArena Japanese—1198
LMArena Russian—1261

Instruction Following Not comparable

DeepSeek Coder 1.3B: —, GPT-4.1 nano: 67.8 (#193)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek Coder 1.3BGPT-4.1 nano
IFEval—84.3%
LMArena Instruction Following—1267

Long Context Not comparable

DeepSeek Coder 1.3B: —, GPT-4.1 nano: 23.7 (#296)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek Coder 1.3BGPT-4.1 nano
Fiction.LiveBench—25%
LMArena Longer Query—1283

Writing & Preference Not comparable

DeepSeek Coder 1.3B: —, GPT-4.1 nano: 40.5 (#243)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek Coder 1.3BGPT-4.1 nano
LMArena Text—1285
LMArena Creative Writing—1260
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—946
WildBench—81.2%
LMArena Multi-Turn—1277

Frequently asked questions

Is DeepSeek Coder 1.3B better than GPT-4.1 nano?

GPT-4.1 nano has enough public results to be ranked (#327); DeepSeek Coder 1.3B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Is DeepSeek Coder 1.3B or GPT-4.1 nano better for coding?

DeepSeek Coder 1.3B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 31.2 versus 24.1 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do DeepSeek Coder 1.3B and GPT-4.1 nano share?

1 benchmark has published results for both models. DeepSeek Coder 1.3B has 9 scored results on Noometry and GPT-4.1 nano has 38.

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