Model comparison

DeepSeek Coder 33B vs Qwen1.5-72B

Qwen1.5-72B has enough public results to be ranked (#285); DeepSeek Coder 33B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Last verified . 4 shared benchmarks.

DeepSeek Coder 33B DeepSeek

38.9

Unranked Sparse

Qwen1.5-72B Alibaba (Qwen)

30.8

Rank #285 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 4 benchmarks with published results for both. DeepSeek Coder 33B scores higher in 1 category and Qwen1.5-72B in 0 categories; one gap is clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in coding, where DeepSeek Coder 33B leads 38.0 to 31.9.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is BigCodeBench Complete: 51.1% for DeepSeek Coder 33B and 40.3% for Qwen1.5-72B.

Side by side

DeepSeek Coder 33B and Qwen1.5-72B specifications
DeepSeek Coder 33BQwen1.5-72B
ProviderDeepSeekAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index38.930.8
Released2023-11-022024-02-04
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window——
Max output——
Input $ / M tokens——
Output $ / M tokens——
Results tracked922

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Category by category

Coding DeepSeek Coder 33B leads

DeepSeek Coder 33B: 38.0 (#184), Qwen1.5-72B: 31.9 (#277)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek Coder 33BQwen1.5-72B
BigCodeBench Instruct42%33.2%
BigCodeBench Complete51.1%40.3%
HumanEval+75%59.1%
MBPP+70.1%61.6%
LMArena Coding—1165

Reasoning Not comparable

DeepSeek Coder 33B: —, Qwen1.5-72B: 22.2 (#203)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek Coder 33BQwen1.5-72B
LMArena Hard Prompts—1148
Epoch Capabilities Index96.32—
WinoGrande62%—

Math Not comparable

DeepSeek Coder 33B: —, Qwen1.5-72B: 33.2 (#205)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek Coder 33BQwen1.5-72B
LMArena Math—1164
GSM8K35.4%—

Knowledge Not comparable

DeepSeek Coder 33B: —, Qwen1.5-72B: 11.5 (#300)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek Coder 33BQwen1.5-72B
GPQA Diamond—28.8%
LMArena Expert—1136
ARC (AI2) Challenge42.2%—
MMLU39.4%—

Multilingual Not comparable

DeepSeek Coder 33B: —, Qwen1.5-72B: 33.2 (#253)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek Coder 33BQwen1.5-72B
LMArena Non-English—1135
LMArena Chinese—1186
LMArena French—1159
LMArena German—1084
LMArena Japanese—1061
LMArena Korean—1050
LMArena Russian—1104
LMArena Spanish—1110

Instruction Following Not comparable

DeepSeek Coder 33B: —, Qwen1.5-72B: 59.3 (#256)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek Coder 33BQwen1.5-72B
LMArena Instruction Following—1141

Long Context Not comparable

DeepSeek Coder 33B: —, Qwen1.5-72B: 35.1 (#243)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek Coder 33BQwen1.5-72B
LMArena Longer Query—1157

Writing & Preference Not comparable

DeepSeek Coder 33B: —, Qwen1.5-72B: 37.3 (#258)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek Coder 33BQwen1.5-72B
LMArena Text—1166
LMArena Creative Writing—1137
LMArena Multi-Turn—1160

Frequently asked questions

Is DeepSeek Coder 33B better than Qwen1.5-72B?

Qwen1.5-72B has enough public results to be ranked (#285); DeepSeek Coder 33B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Is DeepSeek Coder 33B or Qwen1.5-72B better for coding?

DeepSeek Coder 33B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 38.0 versus 31.9 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do DeepSeek Coder 33B and Qwen1.5-72B share?

4 benchmarks have published results for both models. DeepSeek Coder 33B has 9 scored results on Noometry and Qwen1.5-72B has 22.

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