Model comparison
DeepSeek Coder 33B vs DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B
DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B has enough public results to be ranked (#187); DeepSeek Coder 33B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.
Last verified . 2 shared benchmarks.
DeepSeekSummary
- They share 2 benchmarks with published results for both. DeepSeek Coder 33B scores higher in 1 category and DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B in 0 categories; one gap is clear of the uncertainty.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is BigCodeBench Instruct: 42% for DeepSeek Coder 33B and 35.3% for DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B.
Side by side
| DeepSeek Coder 33B | DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | DeepSeek | DeepSeek |
| Noometry Index | 38.3 | 37.4 |
| Released | 2023-11-02 | 2025-01-20 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | — | — |
| Max output | — | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Results tracked | 9 | 13 |
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Category by category
Coding DeepSeek Coder 33B leads
DeepSeek Coder 33B: 37.4 (#180), DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B: 36.3 (#197)
| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 33B | DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B |
|---|---|---|
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 42% | 35.3% |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 51.1% | 49.9% |
| LiveBench Coding | — | 51.6% |
| HumanEval+ | 75% | — |
| MBPP+ | 70.1% | — |
Reasoning Not comparable
DeepSeek Coder 33B: —, DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B: 24.1 (#150)
| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 33B | DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B |
|---|---|---|
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 52.3% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | — | 67.6% |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | — | 55.9% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 95.74 | — |
| LiveBench | — | 54.5% |
| WinoGrande | 62% | — |
Math Not comparable
DeepSeek Coder 33B: —, DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B: 34.3 (#161)
| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 33B | DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 51.4% |
| LiveBench Math | — | 58.1% |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 89.9% |
| GSM8K | 35.4% | — |
Knowledge Not comparable
DeepSeek Coder 33B: —, DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B: 30.7 (#216)
| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 33B | DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | — | 55.7% |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 42.2% | — |
| MMLU | 39.4% | — |
Instruction Following Not comparable
DeepSeek Coder 33B: —, DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B: 68.3 (#185)
| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 33B | DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Instruction Following | — | 69.9% |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
DeepSeek Coder 33B: —, DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B: 49.0 (#189)
| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 33B | DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Language | — | 23.8% |
Frequently asked questions
Is DeepSeek Coder 33B better than DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B?
DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B has enough public results to be ranked (#187); DeepSeek Coder 33B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.
Is DeepSeek Coder 33B or DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B better for coding?
DeepSeek Coder 33B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 37.4 versus 36.3 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do DeepSeek Coder 33B and DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B share?
2 benchmarks have published results for both models. DeepSeek Coder 33B has 9 scored results on Noometry and DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B has 13.