Model comparison
DeepSeek Coder 33B vs Qwen2.5-Coder-32B
Qwen2.5-Coder-32B has enough public results to be ranked (#245); DeepSeek Coder 33B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.
Last verified . 9 shared benchmarks.
DeepSeek
Alibaba (Qwen)Summary
- They share 9 benchmarks with published results for both. DeepSeek Coder 33B scores higher in 1 category and Qwen2.5-Coder-32B in 0 categories; one gap is clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in coding, where DeepSeek Coder 33B leads 38.0 to 22.6.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is BigCodeBench Instruct: 42% for DeepSeek Coder 33B and 49% for Qwen2.5-Coder-32B.
Side by side
| DeepSeek Coder 33B | Qwen2.5-Coder-32B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | DeepSeek | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 38.9 | 33.4 |
| Released | 2023-11-02 | 2024-09-18 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | — | 33K |
| Max output | — | 29K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $0.66 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $1 |
| Results tracked | 9 | 31 |
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Category by category
Coding DeepSeek Coder 33B leads
DeepSeek Coder 33B: 38.0 (#184), Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 22.6 (#333)
| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 33B | Qwen2.5-Coder-32B |
|---|---|---|
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 42% | 49% |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 51.1% | 58% |
| HumanEval+ | 75% | 87.2% |
| MBPP+ | 70.1% | 77% |
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | — | 9% |
| Aider Polyglot | — | 16.4% |
| LiveBench Coding | — | 56.9% |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1276 |
Reasoning Not comparable
DeepSeek Coder 33B: —, Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 21.2 (#225)
| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 33B | Qwen2.5-Coder-32B |
|---|---|---|
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 96.32 | 119.49 |
| WinoGrande | 62% | 80.8% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | — | 42.1% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1251 |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | — | 49.9% |
| HellaSwag | — | 83% |
| LiveBench | — | 46.2% |
Math Not comparable
DeepSeek Coder 33B: —, Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 33.3 (#204)
| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 33B | Qwen2.5-Coder-32B |
|---|---|---|
| GSM8K | 35.4% | 93% |
| LiveBench Math | — | 46.6% |
| LMArena Math | — | 1251 |
Knowledge Not comparable
DeepSeek Coder 33B: —, Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 33.4 (#203)
| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 33B | Qwen2.5-Coder-32B |
|---|---|---|
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 42.2% | 70.5% |
| MMLU | 39.4% | 79.1% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1221 |
Multilingual Not comparable
DeepSeek Coder 33B: —, Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 37.8 (#235)
| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 33B | Qwen2.5-Coder-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1205 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1222 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1228 |
Instruction Following Not comparable
DeepSeek Coder 33B: —, Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 61.4 (#245)
| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 33B | Qwen2.5-Coder-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Instruction Following | — | 58.7% |
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1223 |
Long Context Not comparable
DeepSeek Coder 33B: —, Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 38.0 (#208)
| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 33B | Qwen2.5-Coder-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1251 |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
DeepSeek Coder 33B: —, Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 41.6 (#240)
| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 33B | Qwen2.5-Coder-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1230 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1174 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1222 |
| LiveBench Language | — | 23.3% |
Frequently asked questions
Is DeepSeek Coder 33B better than Qwen2.5-Coder-32B?
Qwen2.5-Coder-32B has enough public results to be ranked (#245); DeepSeek Coder 33B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.
Is DeepSeek Coder 33B or Qwen2.5-Coder-32B better for coding?
DeepSeek Coder 33B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 38.0 versus 22.6 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do DeepSeek Coder 33B and Qwen2.5-Coder-32B share?
9 benchmarks have published results for both models. DeepSeek Coder 33B has 9 scored results on Noometry and Qwen2.5-Coder-32B has 31.