Model comparison
DeepSeek Coder 1.3B vs Qwen3 8B
Qwen3 8B has enough public results to be ranked (#238); DeepSeek Coder 1.3B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.
Last verified . 1 shared benchmarks.
DeepSeek
Alibaba (Qwen)Summary
- They share 1 benchmark with published results for both. DeepSeek Coder 1.3B scores higher in 0 categories and Qwen3 8B in 1 category; one gap is clear of the uncertainty.
Side by side
| DeepSeek Coder 1.3B | Qwen3 8B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | DeepSeek | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 35.0 | 33.7 |
| Released | 2023-11-02 | 2025-04 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | — | 131K |
| Max output | — | 8K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $0.18 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $0.70 |
| Results tracked | 9 | 11 |
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Category by category
Coding Qwen3 8B leads
DeepSeek Coder 1.3B: 31.2 (#287), Qwen3 8B: 34.0 (#248)
| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 1.3B | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| SciCode | — | 22.6% |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 22.8% | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 29.6% | — |
| HumanEval+ | 60.4% | — |
| MBPP+ | 54.8% | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
DeepSeek Coder 1.3B: —, Qwen3 8B: 30.2 (#78)
| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 1.3B | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | — | 42.6% |
Reasoning Not comparable
DeepSeek Coder 1.3B: —, Qwen3 8B: 16.6 (#303)
| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 1.3B | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 63.6 | 136.17 |
| CritPt | — | 0% |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 5% |
| DTBench | — | 59.7% |
| LMCA | — | 8.8% |
| WinoGrande | 53.3% | — |
Math Not comparable
DeepSeek Coder 1.3B: —, Qwen3 8B: 34.9 (#191)
| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 1.3B | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 56.1% |
| GSM8K | 4.4% | — |
Knowledge Not comparable
DeepSeek Coder 1.3B: —, Qwen3 8B: 36.1 (#173)
| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 1.3B | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | — | 56.8% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 4.8% |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 25.4% | — |
| MMLU | 25.8% | — |
Long Context Not comparable
DeepSeek Coder 1.3B: —, Qwen3 8B: 37.9 (#210)
| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 1.3B | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 62.1% |
Frequently asked questions
Is DeepSeek Coder 1.3B better than Qwen3 8B?
Qwen3 8B has enough public results to be ranked (#238); DeepSeek Coder 1.3B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.
Is DeepSeek Coder 1.3B or Qwen3 8B better for coding?
Qwen3 8B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 34.0 versus 31.2 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do DeepSeek Coder 1.3B and Qwen3 8B share?
1 benchmark has published results for both models. DeepSeek Coder 1.3B has 9 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3 8B has 11.