Model comparison
DeepSeek Coder 33B vs Qwen2.5 72B Instruct
Qwen2.5 72B Instruct has enough public results to be ranked (#259); DeepSeek Coder 33B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.
Last verified . 6 shared benchmarks.
DeepSeek
Alibaba (Qwen)Summary
- They share 6 benchmarks with published results for both. DeepSeek Coder 33B scores higher in 1 category and Qwen2.5 72B Instruct in 0 categories; one gap is clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in coding, where DeepSeek Coder 33B leads 37.4 to 32.8.
Side by side
| DeepSeek Coder 33B | Qwen2.5 72B Instruct | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | DeepSeek | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 38.3 | 31.5 |
| Released | 2023-11-02 | 2024-09 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | — | 131K |
| Max output | — | 8K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $1.40 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $5.60 |
| Results tracked | 9 | 43 |
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Category by category
Coding DeepSeek Coder 33B leads
DeepSeek Coder 33B: 37.4 (#180), Qwen2.5 72B Instruct: 32.8 (#256)
| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 33B | Qwen2.5 72B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 42% | 45.8% |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 51.1% | 55.9% |
| WeirdML | — | 16% |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1293 |
| HumanEval+ | 75% | — |
| MBPP+ | 70.1% | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
DeepSeek Coder 33B: —, Qwen2.5 72B Instruct: 22.0 (#124)
| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 33B | Qwen2.5 72B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| TheAgentCompany | — | 5.7% |
| BALROG | — | 16.2% |
| METR Time Horizons | — | 35.8% |
Reasoning Not comparable
DeepSeek Coder 33B: —, Qwen2.5 72B Instruct: 21.4 (#197)
| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 33B | Qwen2.5 72B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 95.74 | 129.01 |
| WinoGrande | 62% | 82.3% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1271 |
| DTBench | — | 62.9% |
| LMCA | — | 13.4% |
| BIG-Bench Hard | — | 79.8% |
| ForecastBench | — | 57.5 |
| HellaSwag | — | 84.8% |
| PIQA | — | 82.6% |
Math Not comparable
DeepSeek Coder 33B: —, Qwen2.5 72B Instruct: 18.1 (#281)
| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 33B | Qwen2.5 72B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 8.1% |
| Omni-MATH | — | 33% |
| LMArena Math | — | 1283 |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 63.2% |
| GSM8K | 35.4% | — |
Knowledge Not comparable
DeepSeek Coder 33B: —, Qwen2.5 72B Instruct: 26.9 (#247)
| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 33B | Qwen2.5 72B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 42.2% | 94.5% |
| MMLU | 39.4% | 85.3% |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 49.1% |
| MMLU-Pro | — | 63.1% |
| Confabulations | — | 19.1% |
| GPQA (HELM) | — | 42.6% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1245 |
| TriviaQA | — | 71.9% |
Multilingual Not comparable
DeepSeek Coder 33B: —, Qwen2.5 72B Instruct: 41.2 (#208)
| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 33B | Qwen2.5 72B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1252 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1272 |
| LMArena French | — | 1279 |
| LMArena German | — | 1234 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1180 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1188 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1264 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1255 |
Instruction Following Not comparable
DeepSeek Coder 33B: —, Qwen2.5 72B Instruct: 65.7 (#216)
| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 33B | Qwen2.5 72B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| IFEval | — | 80.6% |
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1254 |
Long Context Not comparable
DeepSeek Coder 33B: —, Qwen2.5 72B Instruct: 38.9 (#183)
| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 33B | Qwen2.5 72B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1282 |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
DeepSeek Coder 33B: —, Qwen2.5 72B Instruct: 46.9 (#210)
| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 33B | Qwen2.5 72B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1269 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1221 |
| WildBench | — | 80.2% |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1272 |
Frequently asked questions
Is DeepSeek Coder 33B better than Qwen2.5 72B Instruct?
Qwen2.5 72B Instruct has enough public results to be ranked (#259); DeepSeek Coder 33B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.
Is DeepSeek Coder 33B or Qwen2.5 72B Instruct better for coding?
DeepSeek Coder 33B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 37.4 versus 32.8 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do DeepSeek Coder 33B and Qwen2.5 72B Instruct share?
6 benchmarks have published results for both models. DeepSeek Coder 33B has 9 scored results on Noometry and Qwen2.5 72B Instruct has 43.