Model comparison
DeepSeek Coder 33B vs Qwen3.6 35B-A3B
Qwen3.6 35B-A3B has enough public results to be ranked (#201); DeepSeek Coder 33B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.
Last verified . 1 shared benchmarks.
DeepSeek
Alibaba (Qwen)Summary
- They share 1 benchmark with published results for both. DeepSeek Coder 33B scores higher in 1 category and Qwen3.6 35B-A3B in 0 categories, but none of those gaps is larger than the uncertainty.
Side by side
| DeepSeek Coder 33B | Qwen3.6 35B-A3B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | DeepSeek | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 38.9 | 37.6 |
| Released | 2023-11-02 | 2026-04-01 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | — | 262K |
| Max output | — | 66K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $0.25 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $1.49 |
| Results tracked | 9 | 14 |
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Category by category
Coding Too close to call
DeepSeek Coder 33B: 38.0 (#184), Qwen3.6 35B-A3B: 37.2 (#196)
| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 33B | Qwen3.6 35B-A3B |
|---|---|---|
| SciCode | — | 35.8% |
| WeirdML | — | 34.5% |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 42% | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 51.1% | — |
| HumanEval+ | 75% | — |
| MBPP+ | 70.1% | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
DeepSeek Coder 33B: —, Qwen3.6 35B-A3B: 22.1 (#134)
| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 33B | Qwen3.6 35B-A3B |
|---|---|---|
| Terminal-Bench | — | 23% |
Reasoning Not comparable
DeepSeek Coder 33B: —, Qwen3.6 35B-A3B: 28.0 (#109)
| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 33B | Qwen3.6 35B-A3B |
|---|---|---|
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 96.32 | 143.93 |
| NYT Connections (extended) | — | 41.6% |
| CritPt | — | 0.3% |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 26% |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | — | 22% |
| DTBench | — | 73.9% |
| LMCA | — | 29.7% |
| Surface Evolver Bench | — | 44.4% |
| WinoGrande | 62% | — |
Math Not comparable
DeepSeek Coder 33B: —, Qwen3.6 35B-A3B: 38.9 (#121)
| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 33B | Qwen3.6 35B-A3B |
|---|---|---|
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | — | 20.4% |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 86.7% |
| GSM8K | 35.4% | — |
Knowledge Not comparable
DeepSeek Coder 33B: —, Qwen3.6 35B-A3B: 51.3 (#68)
| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 33B | Qwen3.6 35B-A3B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | — | 84.8% |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 42.2% | — |
| MMLU | 39.4% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is DeepSeek Coder 33B better than Qwen3.6 35B-A3B?
Qwen3.6 35B-A3B has enough public results to be ranked (#201); DeepSeek Coder 33B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.
Is DeepSeek Coder 33B or Qwen3.6 35B-A3B better for coding?
They score almost the same on coding (38.0 vs 37.2); test both on your own repository before choosing.
How many benchmarks do DeepSeek Coder 33B and Qwen3.6 35B-A3B share?
1 benchmark has published results for both models. DeepSeek Coder 33B has 9 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3.6 35B-A3B has 14.