Model comparison

DeepSeek Coder 1.3B vs Qwen2-72B

Qwen2-72B has enough public results to be ranked (#300); 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

Qwen2-72B Alibaba (Qwen)

30.0

Rank #300 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 4 benchmarks with published results for both. DeepSeek Coder 1.3B scores higher in 1 category and Qwen2-72B in 0 categories; one gap is clear of the uncertainty.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is BigCodeBench Complete: 29.6% for DeepSeek Coder 1.3B and 54% for Qwen2-72B.

Side by side

DeepSeek Coder 1.3B and Qwen2-72B specifications
DeepSeek Coder 1.3BQwen2-72B
ProviderDeepSeekAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index35.030.0
Released2023-11-022024-06-07
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window——
Max output——
Input $ / M tokens——
Output $ / M tokens——
Results tracked926

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Category by category

Coding DeepSeek Coder 1.3B leads

DeepSeek Coder 1.3B: 31.2 (#287), Qwen2-72B: 29.1 (#310)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek Coder 1.3BQwen2-72B
BigCodeBench Instruct22.8%38.5%
BigCodeBench Complete29.6%54%
WeirdML—11.3%
LMArena Coding—1196
HumanEval+60.4%—
MBPP+54.8%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

DeepSeek Coder 1.3B: —, Qwen2-72B: 17.0 (#146)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek Coder 1.3BQwen2-72B
TheAgentCompany—1.1%
METR Time Horizons—29.9%

Reasoning Not comparable

DeepSeek Coder 1.3B: —, Qwen2-72B: 23.2 (#181)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek Coder 1.3BQwen2-72B
Epoch Capabilities Index63.6125.28
LMArena Hard Prompts—1191
WinoGrande53.3%—

Math Not comparable

DeepSeek Coder 1.3B: —, Qwen2-72B: 30.2 (#236)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek Coder 1.3BQwen2-72B
LMArena Math—1235
MATH Level 5—39.1%
GSM8K4.4%—

Knowledge Not comparable

DeepSeek Coder 1.3B: —, Qwen2-72B: 21.2 (#275)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek Coder 1.3BQwen2-72B
MMLU25.8%82.4%
GPQA Diamond—40.8%
LMArena Expert—1171
ARC (AI2) Challenge25.4%—

Multilingual Not comparable

DeepSeek Coder 1.3B: —, Qwen2-72B: 35.9 (#244)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek Coder 1.3BQwen2-72B
LMArena Non-English—1176
LMArena Chinese—1240
LMArena French—1170
LMArena German—1151
LMArena Japanese—1111
LMArena Korean—1083
LMArena Russian—1169
LMArena Spanish—1169

Instruction Following Not comparable

DeepSeek Coder 1.3B: —, Qwen2-72B: 61.7 (#241)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek Coder 1.3BQwen2-72B
LMArena Instruction Following—1181

Long Context Not comparable

DeepSeek Coder 1.3B: —, Qwen2-72B: 36.1 (#235)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek Coder 1.3BQwen2-72B
LMArena Longer Query—1192

Writing & Preference Not comparable

DeepSeek Coder 1.3B: —, Qwen2-72B: 40.8 (#241)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek Coder 1.3BQwen2-72B
LMArena Text—1203
LMArena Creative Writing—1181
LMArena Multi-Turn—1196

Frequently asked questions

Is DeepSeek Coder 1.3B better than Qwen2-72B?

Qwen2-72B has enough public results to be ranked (#300); DeepSeek Coder 1.3B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Is DeepSeek Coder 1.3B or Qwen2-72B better for coding?

DeepSeek Coder 1.3B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 31.2 versus 29.1 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do DeepSeek Coder 1.3B and Qwen2-72B share?

4 benchmarks have published results for both models. DeepSeek Coder 1.3B has 9 scored results on Noometry and Qwen2-72B has 26.

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