Model comparison

DeepSeek Coder 1.3B vs Phi-4

Phi-4 has enough public results to be ranked (#279); DeepSeek Coder 1.3B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Last verified . 4 shared benchmarks.

DeepSeek Coder 1.3B DeepSeek

35.0

Unranked Sparse

Phi-4 Microsoft

31.2

Rank #279 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 4 benchmarks with published results for both. DeepSeek Coder 1.3B scores higher in 0 categories and Phi-4 in 1 category; one gap is clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in coding, where Phi-4 leads 34.4 to 31.2.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is BigCodeBench Complete: 29.6% for DeepSeek Coder 1.3B and 55.4% for Phi-4.

Side by side

DeepSeek Coder 1.3B and Phi-4 specifications
DeepSeek Coder 1.3BPhi-4
ProviderDeepSeekMicrosoft
Noometry Index35.031.2
Released2023-11-022024-12-11
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window—128K
Max output—4K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.07
Output $ / M tokens—$0.14
Results tracked937

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Category by category

Coding Phi-4 leads

DeepSeek Coder 1.3B: 31.2 (#287), Phi-4: 34.4 (#239)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek Coder 1.3BPhi-4
BigCodeBench Instruct22.8%45.5%
BigCodeBench Complete29.6%55.4%
LiveBench Coding—30.7%
LMArena Coding—1231
HumanEval+60.4%—
MBPP+54.8%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

DeepSeek Coder 1.3B: —, Phi-4: 22.8 (#128)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek Coder 1.3BPhi-4
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—28.8%
BALROG—11.6%

Reasoning Not comparable

DeepSeek Coder 1.3B: —, Phi-4: 17.7 (#291)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek Coder 1.3BPhi-4
Epoch Capabilities Index63.6130.42
Chess Puzzles—1%
LiveBench Reasoning—47.8%
LMArena Hard Prompts—1220
LiveBench Data Analysis—45.2%
LiveBench—41.6%
WinoGrande53.3%—

Math Not comparable

DeepSeek Coder 1.3B: —, Phi-4: 20.8 (#285)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek Coder 1.3BPhi-4
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—13.8%
LiveBench Math—42%
LMArena Math—1246
MATH Level 5—64.9%
GSM8K4.4%—

Knowledge Not comparable

DeepSeek Coder 1.3B: —, Phi-4: 32.6 (#209)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek Coder 1.3BPhi-4
MMLU25.8%84.8%
GPQA Diamond—56.1%
Confabulations—29.4%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—3.7%
LMArena Expert—1203
ARC (AI2) Challenge25.4%—

Multilingual Not comparable

DeepSeek Coder 1.3B: —, Phi-4: 37.2 (#237)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek Coder 1.3BPhi-4
LMArena Non-English—1197
LMArena Chinese—1212
LMArena French—1224
LMArena German—1222
LMArena Japanese—1158
LMArena Korean—1151
LMArena Russian—1209
LMArena Spanish—1234

Instruction Following Not comparable

DeepSeek Coder 1.3B: —, Phi-4: 60.4 (#251)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek Coder 1.3BPhi-4
LiveBench Instruction Following—58.4%
LMArena Instruction Following—1201

Long Context Not comparable

DeepSeek Coder 1.3B: —, Phi-4: 36.9 (#226)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek Coder 1.3BPhi-4
LMArena Longer Query—1217

Writing & Preference Not comparable

DeepSeek Coder 1.3B: —, Phi-4: 40.5 (#244)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek Coder 1.3BPhi-4
LMArena Text—1217
LMArena Creative Writing—1182
Short-Story Creative Writing—62.6%
LMArena Multi-Turn—1206
LiveBench Language—25.6%

Frequently asked questions

Is DeepSeek Coder 1.3B better than Phi-4?

Phi-4 has enough public results to be ranked (#279); DeepSeek Coder 1.3B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

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

Phi-4 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 34.4 versus 31.2 in the Noometry coding category.

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

4 benchmarks have published results for both models. DeepSeek Coder 1.3B has 9 scored results on Noometry and Phi-4 has 37.

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