Model comparison

DeepSeek Coder 33B vs GPT-3.5-turbo

GPT-3.5-turbo has enough public results to be ranked (#350); DeepSeek Coder 33B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Last verified . 9 shared benchmarks.

DeepSeek Coder 33B DeepSeek

38.9

Unranked Sparse

GPT-3.5-turbo OpenAI

23.2

Rank #350 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 9 benchmarks with published results for both. DeepSeek Coder 33B scores higher in 1 category and GPT-3.5-turbo in 0 categories; one gap is clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in coding, where DeepSeek Coder 33B leads 38.0 to 23.9.
  • DeepSeek Coder 33B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

DeepSeek Coder 33B and GPT-3.5-turbo specifications
DeepSeek Coder 33BGPT-3.5-turbo
ProviderDeepSeekOpenAI
Noometry Index38.923.2
Released2023-11-022023-03-01
WeightsOpenProprietary
Context window—16K
Max output—4K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.50
Output $ / M tokens—$1.50
Results tracked944

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Category by category

Coding DeepSeek Coder 33B leads

DeepSeek Coder 33B: 38.0 (#184), GPT-3.5-turbo: 23.9 (#331)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek Coder 33BGPT-3.5-turbo
BigCodeBench Instruct42%39.1%
BigCodeBench Complete51.1%50.6%
HumanEval+75%70.7%
MBPP+70.1%69.7%
WeirdML—3.5%
LMArena Coding—1136

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

DeepSeek Coder 33B: —, GPT-3.5-turbo: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek Coder 33BGPT-3.5-turbo
METR Time Horizons—21.5%

Reasoning Not comparable

DeepSeek Coder 33B: —, GPT-3.5-turbo: 13.8 (#332)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek Coder 33BGPT-3.5-turbo
Epoch Capabilities Index96.32118.55
WinoGrande62%81.6%
Chess Puzzles—0%
LMArena Hard Prompts—1108
Mystery Game Puzzles—3%
DTBench—48.5%
LMCA—9.7%
Adversarial NLI—58.1%
BIG-Bench Hard—61.6%
CommonsenseQA 2.0—57%
ForecastBench—50.4

Math Not comparable

DeepSeek Coder 33B: —, GPT-3.5-turbo: 6.3 (#327)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek Coder 33BGPT-3.5-turbo
GSM8K35.4%57.8%
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)—0%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—2.2%
LMArena Math—1142
MATH Level 5—15.9%

Knowledge Not comparable

DeepSeek Coder 33B: —, GPT-3.5-turbo: 10.0 (#303)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek Coder 33BGPT-3.5-turbo
ARC (AI2) Challenge42.2%87.4%
MMLU39.4%71.4%
GPQA Diamond—28%
LMArena Expert—1070
BoolQ—87%
OpenBookQA—86%
TriviaQA—85.8%

Multilingual Not comparable

DeepSeek Coder 33B: —, GPT-3.5-turbo: 31.5 (#258)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek Coder 33BGPT-3.5-turbo
LMArena Non-English—1108
LMArena Chinese—1075
LMArena French—1118
LMArena German—1090
LMArena Japanese—1043
LMArena Korean—1019
LMArena Russian—1123
LMArena Spanish—1121

Instruction Following Not comparable

DeepSeek Coder 33B: —, GPT-3.5-turbo: 57.9 (#262)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek Coder 33BGPT-3.5-turbo
LMArena Instruction Following—1119

Long Context Not comparable

DeepSeek Coder 33B: —, GPT-3.5-turbo: 34.0 (#254)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek Coder 33BGPT-3.5-turbo
LMArena Longer Query—1121

Writing & Preference Not comparable

DeepSeek Coder 33B: —, GPT-3.5-turbo: 25.3 (#305)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek Coder 33BGPT-3.5-turbo
LMArena Text—1125
LMArena Creative Writing—1092
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—451
LMArena Multi-Turn—1117

Frequently asked questions

Is DeepSeek Coder 33B better than GPT-3.5-turbo?

GPT-3.5-turbo has enough public results to be ranked (#350); DeepSeek Coder 33B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Is DeepSeek Coder 33B or GPT-3.5-turbo better for coding?

DeepSeek Coder 33B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 38.0 versus 23.9 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do DeepSeek Coder 33B and GPT-3.5-turbo share?

9 benchmarks have published results for both models. DeepSeek Coder 33B has 9 scored results on Noometry and GPT-3.5-turbo has 44.

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