Model comparison
DeepSeek Coder 1.3B vs Qwen Max
Qwen Max has enough public results to be ranked (#230); DeepSeek Coder 1.3B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.
Last verified . 0 shared benchmarks.
DeepSeek
Alibaba (Qwen)Summary
- DeepSeek Coder 1.3B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| DeepSeek Coder 1.3B | Qwen Max | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | DeepSeek | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 35.0 | 34.7 |
| Released | 2023-11-02 | 2024-04-03 |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |
| Context window | — | 33K |
| Max output | — | 8K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $1.60 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $6.40 |
| Results tracked | 9 | 23 |
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Category by category
Coding Too close to call
DeepSeek Coder 1.3B: 31.2 (#287), Qwen Max: 30.7 (#292)
| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 1.3B | Qwen Max |
|---|---|---|
| Aider Polyglot | — | 21.8% |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 22.8% | — |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1288 |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 29.6% | — |
| HumanEval+ | 60.4% | — |
| MBPP+ | 54.8% | — |
Reasoning Not comparable
DeepSeek Coder 1.3B: —, Qwen Max: 25.1 (#151)
| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 1.3B | Qwen Max |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1269 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 63.6 | — |
| WinoGrande | 53.3% | — |
Math Not comparable
DeepSeek Coder 1.3B: —, Qwen Max: 22.3 (#276)
| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 1.3B | Qwen Max |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 16.1% |
| LMArena Math | — | 1275 |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 67.2% |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | — | 1% |
| GSM8K | 4.4% | — |
Knowledge Not comparable
DeepSeek Coder 1.3B: —, Qwen Max: 30.3 (#228)
| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 1.3B | Qwen Max |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | — | 56.1% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1248 |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 25.4% | — |
| MMLU | 25.8% | — |
Multilingual Not comparable
DeepSeek Coder 1.3B: —, Qwen Max: 41.8 (#202)
| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 1.3B | Qwen Max |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1263 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1254 |
| LMArena French | — | 1330 |
| LMArena German | — | 1254 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1205 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1142 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1274 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1290 |
Instruction Following Not comparable
DeepSeek Coder 1.3B: —, Qwen Max: 66.5 (#208)
| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 1.3B | Qwen Max |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1262 |
Long Context Not comparable
DeepSeek Coder 1.3B: —, Qwen Max: 39.4 (#180)
| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 1.3B | Qwen Max |
|---|---|---|
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 66.7% |
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1288 |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
DeepSeek Coder 1.3B: —, Qwen Max: 47.8 (#205)
| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 1.3B | Qwen Max |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1282 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1248 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1277 |
Frequently asked questions
Is DeepSeek Coder 1.3B better than Qwen Max?
Qwen Max has enough public results to be ranked (#230); DeepSeek Coder 1.3B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.
Is DeepSeek Coder 1.3B or Qwen Max better for coding?
They score almost the same on coding (31.2 vs 30.7); test both on your own repository before choosing.
How many benchmarks do DeepSeek Coder 1.3B and Qwen Max share?
0 benchmarks have published results for both models. DeepSeek Coder 1.3B has 9 scored results on Noometry and Qwen Max has 23.