Model comparison
DeepSeek Coder 33B vs Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite
Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite has enough public results to be ranked (#141); DeepSeek Coder 33B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.
Last verified . 1 shared benchmarks.
DeepSeek
GoogleSummary
- They share 1 benchmark with published results for both. DeepSeek Coder 33B scores higher in 0 categories and Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite in 1 category, but none of those gaps is larger than the uncertainty.
- DeepSeek Coder 33B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| DeepSeek Coder 33B | Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | DeepSeek | |
| Noometry Index | 38.3 | 40.4 |
| Released | 2023-11-02 | 2026-03-03 |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |
| Context window | — | 1.05M |
| Max output | — | 66K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $0.25 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $1.50 |
| Results tracked | 9 | 38 |
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Category by category
Coding Too close to call
DeepSeek Coder 33B: 37.4 (#180), Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 37.5 (#179)
| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 33B | Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena WebDev | — | 1256 |
| SciCode | — | 41.9% |
| WeirdML | — | 52.2% |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 42% | — |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1400 |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 51.1% | — |
| ALE-Bench | — | 797.73 |
| HumanEval+ | 75% | — |
| MBPP+ | 70.1% | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
DeepSeek Coder 33B: —, Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 29.9 (#72)
| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 33B | Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite |
|---|---|---|
| DeepResearch Bench | — | 37.3% |
Reasoning Not comparable
DeepSeek Coder 33B: —, Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 22.3 (#181)
| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 33B | Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite |
|---|---|---|
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 95.74 | 144.45 |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 67.2% |
| NYT Connections (extended) | — | 8.2% |
| CritPt | — | 1.1% |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 25% |
| EnigmaEval | — | 3% |
| Thematic Generalization | — | 63.3% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1407 |
| DTBench | — | 76.8% |
| LMCA | — | 35% |
| ForecastBench | — | 54.4 |
| WinoGrande | 62% | — |
Math Not comparable
DeepSeek Coder 33B: —, Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 39.5 (#82)
| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 33B | Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite |
|---|---|---|
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | — | 27.7% |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 80% |
| LMArena Math | — | 1427 |
| GSM8K | 35.4% | — |
Knowledge Not comparable
DeepSeek Coder 33B: —, Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 41.7 (#95)
| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 33B | Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | — | 81.8% |
| Humanity's Last Exam | — | 8.6% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 8.2% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1397 |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 42.2% | — |
| MMLU | 39.4% | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
DeepSeek Coder 33B: —, Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 38.7 (#57)
| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 33B | Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | — | 1240 |
Multilingual Not comparable
DeepSeek Coder 33B: —, Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 52.5 (#82)
| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 33B | Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1410 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1461 |
| LMArena French | — | 1423 |
| LMArena German | — | 1429 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1411 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1393 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1420 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1420 |
Instruction Following Not comparable
DeepSeek Coder 33B: —, Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 72.9 (#126)
| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 33B | Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1376 |
Long Context Not comparable
DeepSeek Coder 33B: —, Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 42.5 (#117)
| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 33B | Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1394 |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
DeepSeek Coder 33B: —, Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite: 61.0 (#90)
| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 33B | Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1416 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1401 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1417 |
Frequently asked questions
Is DeepSeek Coder 33B better than Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite?
Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite has enough public results to be ranked (#141); DeepSeek Coder 33B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.
Is DeepSeek Coder 33B or Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite better for coding?
They score almost the same on coding (37.4 vs 37.5); test both on your own repository before choosing.
How many benchmarks do DeepSeek Coder 33B and Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite share?
1 benchmark has published results for both models. DeepSeek Coder 33B has 9 scored results on Noometry and Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite has 38.