Model comparison

DeepSeek Coder 33B vs Qwen3 8B

Qwen3 8B has enough public results to be ranked (#238); DeepSeek Coder 33B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Last verified . 1 shared benchmarks.

DeepSeek Coder 33B DeepSeek

38.9

Unranked Sparse

Qwen3 8B Alibaba (Qwen)

33.7

Rank #238 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 1 benchmark with published results for both. DeepSeek Coder 33B scores higher in 1 category and Qwen3 8B in 0 categories; one gap is clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in coding, where DeepSeek Coder 33B leads 38.0 to 34.0.

Side by side

DeepSeek Coder 33B and Qwen3 8B specifications
DeepSeek Coder 33BQwen3 8B
ProviderDeepSeekAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index38.933.7
Released2023-11-022025-04
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window—131K
Max output—8K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.18
Output $ / M tokens—$0.70
Results tracked911

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Category by category

Coding DeepSeek Coder 33B leads

DeepSeek Coder 33B: 38.0 (#184), Qwen3 8B: 34.0 (#248)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek Coder 33BQwen3 8B
SciCode—22.6%
BigCodeBench Instruct42%—
BigCodeBench Complete51.1%—
HumanEval+75%—
MBPP+70.1%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

DeepSeek Coder 33B: —, Qwen3 8B: 30.2 (#78)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek Coder 33BQwen3 8B
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—42.6%

Reasoning Not comparable

DeepSeek Coder 33B: —, Qwen3 8B: 16.6 (#303)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek Coder 33BQwen3 8B
Epoch Capabilities Index96.32136.17
CritPt—0%
Chess Puzzles—5%
DTBench—59.7%
LMCA—8.8%
WinoGrande62%—

Math Not comparable

DeepSeek Coder 33B: —, Qwen3 8B: 34.9 (#191)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek Coder 33BQwen3 8B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—56.1%
GSM8K35.4%—

Knowledge Not comparable

DeepSeek Coder 33B: —, Qwen3 8B: 36.1 (#173)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek Coder 33BQwen3 8B
GPQA Diamond—56.8%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—4.8%
ARC (AI2) Challenge42.2%—
MMLU39.4%—

Long Context Not comparable

DeepSeek Coder 33B: —, Qwen3 8B: 37.9 (#210)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek Coder 33BQwen3 8B
Fiction.LiveBench—62.1%

Frequently asked questions

Is DeepSeek Coder 33B better than Qwen3 8B?

Qwen3 8B has enough public results to be ranked (#238); DeepSeek Coder 33B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Is DeepSeek Coder 33B or Qwen3 8B better for coding?

DeepSeek Coder 33B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 38.0 versus 34.0 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do DeepSeek Coder 33B and Qwen3 8B share?

1 benchmark has published results for both models. DeepSeek Coder 33B has 9 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3 8B has 11.

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