Model comparison

DeepSeek Coder 1.3B vs GPT-4 Turbo

GPT-4 Turbo has enough public results to be ranked (#292); DeepSeek Coder 1.3B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Last verified . 6 shared benchmarks.

DeepSeek Coder 1.3B DeepSeek

35.0

Unranked Sparse

GPT-4 Turbo OpenAI

30.5

Rank #292 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 6 benchmarks with published results for both. DeepSeek Coder 1.3B scores higher in 0 categories and GPT-4 Turbo in 1 category; one gap is clear of the uncertainty.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is BigCodeBench Complete: 29.6% for DeepSeek Coder 1.3B and 58.2% for GPT-4 Turbo.
  • DeepSeek Coder 1.3B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

DeepSeek Coder 1.3B and GPT-4 Turbo specifications
DeepSeek Coder 1.3BGPT-4 Turbo
ProviderDeepSeekOpenAI
Noometry Index35.030.5
Released2023-11-022023-11-06
WeightsOpenProprietary
Context window—128K
Max output—4K
Input $ / M tokens—$10
Output $ / M tokens—$30
Results tracked936

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Category by category

Coding GPT-4 Turbo leads

DeepSeek Coder 1.3B: 31.2 (#287), GPT-4 Turbo: 33.8 (#249)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek Coder 1.3BGPT-4 Turbo
BigCodeBench Instruct22.8%48.2%
BigCodeBench Complete29.6%58.2%
HumanEval+60.4%86.6%
MBPP+54.8%73.3%
WeirdML—18%
LMArena Coding—1268

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

DeepSeek Coder 1.3B: —, GPT-4 Turbo: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek Coder 1.3BGPT-4 Turbo
METR Time Horizons—36.7%

Reasoning Not comparable

DeepSeek Coder 1.3B: —, GPT-4 Turbo: 15.3 (#317)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek Coder 1.3BGPT-4 Turbo
Epoch Capabilities Index63.6127.25
SimpleBench—25.1%
Chess Puzzles—6%
LMArena Hard Prompts—1251
DTBench—61.6%
LMCA—9.8%
ForecastBench—59.4
WinoGrande53.3%—

Math Not comparable

DeepSeek Coder 1.3B: —, GPT-4 Turbo: 9.0 (#322)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek Coder 1.3BGPT-4 Turbo
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)—0.7%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—6.7%
LMArena Math—1272
MATH Level 5—46.7%
GSM8K4.4%—

Knowledge Not comparable

DeepSeek Coder 1.3B: —, GPT-4 Turbo: 24.3 (#268)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek Coder 1.3BGPT-4 Turbo
MMLU25.8%81.3%
GPQA Diamond—46.6%
Confabulations—28.4%
LMArena Expert—1223
ARC (AI2) Challenge25.4%—

Multimodal Not comparable

DeepSeek Coder 1.3B: —, GPT-4 Turbo: 30.6 (#110)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek Coder 1.3BGPT-4 Turbo
LMArena Vision—1090

Multilingual Not comparable

DeepSeek Coder 1.3B: —, GPT-4 Turbo: 40.5 (#216)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek Coder 1.3BGPT-4 Turbo
LMArena Non-English—1245
LMArena Chinese—1242
LMArena French—1276
LMArena German—1259
LMArena Japanese—1194
LMArena Korean—1187
LMArena Russian—1259
LMArena Spanish—1260

Instruction Following Not comparable

DeepSeek Coder 1.3B: —, GPT-4 Turbo: 65.8 (#216)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek Coder 1.3BGPT-4 Turbo
LMArena Instruction Following—1249

Long Context Not comparable

DeepSeek Coder 1.3B: —, GPT-4 Turbo: 38.0 (#206)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek Coder 1.3BGPT-4 Turbo
LMArena Longer Query—1254

Writing & Preference Not comparable

DeepSeek Coder 1.3B: —, GPT-4 Turbo: 47.7 (#206)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek Coder 1.3BGPT-4 Turbo
LMArena Text—1272
LMArena Creative Writing—1269
LMArena Multi-Turn—1267

Frequently asked questions

Is DeepSeek Coder 1.3B better than GPT-4 Turbo?

GPT-4 Turbo has enough public results to be ranked (#292); DeepSeek Coder 1.3B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Is DeepSeek Coder 1.3B or GPT-4 Turbo better for coding?

GPT-4 Turbo scores higher on coding benchmarks: 33.8 versus 31.2 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do DeepSeek Coder 1.3B and GPT-4 Turbo share?

6 benchmarks have published results for both models. DeepSeek Coder 1.3B has 9 scored results on Noometry and GPT-4 Turbo has 36.

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