Model comparison
DeepSeek Coder 1.3B vs Mercury
Mercury has enough public results to be ranked (#199); DeepSeek Coder 1.3B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.
Last verified . 0 shared benchmarks.
DeepSeekSummary
- The widest gap is in coding, where Mercury leads 38.7 to 31.2.
- DeepSeek Coder 1.3B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| DeepSeek Coder 1.3B | Mercury | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | DeepSeek | Inception |
| Noometry Index | 35.0 | 37.6 |
| Released | 2023-11-02 | — |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |
| Context window | — | — |
| Max output | — | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Results tracked | 9 | 9 |
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Category by category
Coding Mercury leads
DeepSeek Coder 1.3B: 31.2 (#287), Mercury: 38.7 (#170)
| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 1.3B | Mercury |
|---|---|---|
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 22.8% | — |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1322 |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 29.6% | — |
| HumanEval+ | 60.4% | — |
| MBPP+ | 54.8% | — |
Reasoning Not comparable
DeepSeek Coder 1.3B: —, Mercury: 17.5 (#293)
| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 1.3B | Mercury |
|---|---|---|
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 21.6% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1285 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 63.6 | — |
| WinoGrande | 53.3% | — |
Math Not comparable
DeepSeek Coder 1.3B: —, Mercury: —
| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 1.3B | Mercury |
|---|---|---|
| GSM8K | 4.4% | — |
Knowledge Not comparable
DeepSeek Coder 1.3B: —, Mercury: —
| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 1.3B | Mercury |
|---|---|---|
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 25.4% | — |
| MMLU | 25.8% | — |
Multilingual Not comparable
DeepSeek Coder 1.3B: —, Mercury: 41.6 (#206)
| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 1.3B | Mercury |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1260 |
Instruction Following Not comparable
DeepSeek Coder 1.3B: —, Mercury: 65.2 (#224)
| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 1.3B | Mercury |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1239 |
Long Context Not comparable
DeepSeek Coder 1.3B: —, Mercury: 38.4 (#198)
| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 1.3B | Mercury |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1266 |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
DeepSeek Coder 1.3B: —, Mercury: 46.2 (#221)
| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 1.3B | Mercury |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1282 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1191 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1282 |
Frequently asked questions
Is DeepSeek Coder 1.3B better than Mercury?
Mercury has enough public results to be ranked (#199); DeepSeek Coder 1.3B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.
Is DeepSeek Coder 1.3B or Mercury better for coding?
Mercury scores higher on coding benchmarks: 38.7 versus 31.2 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do DeepSeek Coder 1.3B and Mercury share?
0 benchmarks have published results for both models. DeepSeek Coder 1.3B has 9 scored results on Noometry and Mercury has 9.