Model comparison
DeepSeek Coder 33B vs Qwen Max
Qwen Max has enough public results to be ranked (#230); DeepSeek Coder 33B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.
Last verified . 0 shared benchmarks.
DeepSeek
Alibaba (Qwen)Summary
- The widest gap is in coding, where DeepSeek Coder 33B leads 38.0 to 30.7.
- DeepSeek Coder 33B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| DeepSeek Coder 33B | Qwen Max | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | DeepSeek | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 38.9 | 34.7 |
| Released | 2023-11-02 | 2024-04-03 |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |
| Context window | — | 33K |
| Max output | — | 8K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $1.60 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $6.40 |
| Results tracked | 9 | 23 |
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Category by category
Coding DeepSeek Coder 33B leads
DeepSeek Coder 33B: 38.0 (#184), Qwen Max: 30.7 (#292)
| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 33B | Qwen Max |
|---|---|---|
| Aider Polyglot | — | 21.8% |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 42% | — |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1288 |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 51.1% | — |
| HumanEval+ | 75% | — |
| MBPP+ | 70.1% | — |
Reasoning Not comparable
DeepSeek Coder 33B: —, Qwen Max: 25.1 (#151)
| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 33B | Qwen Max |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1269 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 96.32 | — |
| WinoGrande | 62% | — |
Math Not comparable
DeepSeek Coder 33B: —, Qwen Max: 22.3 (#276)
| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 33B | Qwen Max |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 16.1% |
| LMArena Math | — | 1275 |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 67.2% |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | — | 1% |
| GSM8K | 35.4% | — |
Knowledge Not comparable
DeepSeek Coder 33B: —, Qwen Max: 30.3 (#228)
| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 33B | Qwen Max |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | — | 56.1% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1248 |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 42.2% | — |
| MMLU | 39.4% | — |
Multilingual Not comparable
DeepSeek Coder 33B: —, Qwen Max: 41.8 (#202)
| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 33B | Qwen Max |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1263 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1254 |
| LMArena French | — | 1330 |
| LMArena German | — | 1254 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1205 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1142 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1274 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1290 |
Instruction Following Not comparable
DeepSeek Coder 33B: —, Qwen Max: 66.5 (#208)
| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 33B | Qwen Max |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1262 |
Long Context Not comparable
DeepSeek Coder 33B: —, Qwen Max: 39.4 (#180)
| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 33B | Qwen Max |
|---|---|---|
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 66.7% |
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1288 |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
DeepSeek Coder 33B: —, Qwen Max: 47.8 (#205)
| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 33B | Qwen Max |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1282 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1248 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1277 |
Frequently asked questions
Is DeepSeek Coder 33B better than Qwen Max?
Qwen Max has enough public results to be ranked (#230); DeepSeek Coder 33B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.
Is DeepSeek Coder 33B or Qwen Max better for coding?
DeepSeek Coder 33B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 38.0 versus 30.7 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do DeepSeek Coder 33B and Qwen Max share?
0 benchmarks have published results for both models. DeepSeek Coder 33B has 9 scored results on Noometry and Qwen Max has 23.