Model comparison
DeepSeek Coder 33B vs Qwen2.5 7B Instruct
Qwen2.5 7B Instruct has enough public results to be ranked (#320); DeepSeek Coder 33B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.
Last verified . 4 shared benchmarks.
DeepSeek
Alibaba (Qwen)Summary
- They share 4 benchmarks with published results for both. DeepSeek Coder 33B scores higher in 1 category and Qwen2.5 7B Instruct in 0 categories; one gap is clear of the uncertainty.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is BigCodeBench Complete: 51.1% for DeepSeek Coder 33B and 46.1% for Qwen2.5 7B Instruct.
Side by side
| DeepSeek Coder 33B | Qwen2.5 7B Instruct | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | DeepSeek | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 38.9 | 29.0 |
| Released | 2023-11-02 | 2024-09 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | — | 131K |
| Max output | — | 8K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $0.17 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $0.70 |
| Results tracked | 9 | 15 |
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Category by category
Coding DeepSeek Coder 33B leads
DeepSeek Coder 33B: 38.0 (#184), Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 36.5 (#208)
| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 33B | Qwen2.5 7B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 42% | 37.6% |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 51.1% | 46.1% |
| HumanEval+ | 75% | — |
| MBPP+ | 70.1% | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
DeepSeek Coder 33B: —, Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 23.8 (#124)
| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 33B | Qwen2.5 7B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| BALROG | — | 7.8% |
Reasoning Not comparable
DeepSeek Coder 33B: —, Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 14.8 (#322)
| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 33B | Qwen2.5 7B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 96.32 | 118.51 |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 0% |
| DTBench | — | 47.7% |
| LMCA | — | 6.4% |
| WinoGrande | 62% | — |
Math Not comparable
DeepSeek Coder 33B: —, Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 12.6 (#306)
| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 33B | Qwen2.5 7B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 2.5% |
| Omni-MATH | — | 29.4% |
| GSM8K | 35.4% | — |
Knowledge Not comparable
DeepSeek Coder 33B: —, Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 17.0 (#286)
| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 33B | Qwen2.5 7B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| MMLU | 39.4% | 72.9% |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 35.5% |
| MMLU-Pro | — | 53.9% |
| GPQA (HELM) | — | 34.1% |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 42.2% | — |
Instruction Following Not comparable
DeepSeek Coder 33B: —, Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 63.2 (#231)
| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 33B | Qwen2.5 7B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| IFEval | — | 74.1% |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
DeepSeek Coder 33B: —, Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 48.8 (#195)
| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 33B | Qwen2.5 7B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| WildBench | — | 73.1% |
Frequently asked questions
Is DeepSeek Coder 33B better than Qwen2.5 7B Instruct?
Qwen2.5 7B Instruct has enough public results to be ranked (#320); DeepSeek Coder 33B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.
Is DeepSeek Coder 33B or Qwen2.5 7B Instruct better for coding?
DeepSeek Coder 33B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 38.0 versus 36.5 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do DeepSeek Coder 33B and Qwen2.5 7B Instruct share?
4 benchmarks have published results for both models. DeepSeek Coder 33B has 9 scored results on Noometry and Qwen2.5 7B Instruct has 15.