Model comparison
DeepSeek Coder 33B vs Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct
Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct has enough public results to be ranked (#186); DeepSeek Coder 33B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.
Last verified . 0 shared benchmarks.
DeepSeek
Alibaba (Qwen)Side by side
| DeepSeek Coder 33B | Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | DeepSeek | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 38.3 | 37.7 |
| Released | 2023-11-02 | 2025-04 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | — | 262K |
| Max output | — | 66K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $1.50 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $7.50 |
| Results tracked | 9 | 25 |
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Category by category
Coding DeepSeek Coder 33B leads
DeepSeek Coder 33B: 37.4 (#180), Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 36.2 (#199)
| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 33B | Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | — | 55.4% |
| LMArena WebDev | — | 1275 |
| GSO | — | 4.9% |
| WeirdML | — | 41.2% |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 42% | — |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1413 |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 51.1% | — |
| ALE-Bench | — | 461.45 |
| AlgoTune | — | 1.44 |
| HumanEval+ | 75% | — |
| MBPP+ | 70.1% | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
DeepSeek Coder 33B: —, Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 23.7 (#116)
| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 33B | Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Terminal-Bench | — | 27.2% |
Reasoning Not comparable
DeepSeek Coder 33B: —, Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 24.7 (#141)
| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 33B | Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 49.5% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1372 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 95.74 | — |
| WinoGrande | 62% | — |
Math Not comparable
DeepSeek Coder 33B: —, Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 34.9 (#151)
| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 33B | Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | — | 1364 |
| GSM8K | 35.4% | — |
Knowledge Not comparable
DeepSeek Coder 33B: —, Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 36.4 (#159)
| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 33B | Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | — | 1337 |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 42.2% | — |
| MMLU | 39.4% | — |
Multilingual Not comparable
DeepSeek Coder 33B: —, Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 47.8 (#143)
| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 33B | Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1345 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1356 |
| LMArena French | — | 1394 |
| LMArena German | — | 1324 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1309 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1307 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1367 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1360 |
Instruction Following Not comparable
DeepSeek Coder 33B: —, Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 71.8 (#142)
| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 33B | Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1356 |
Long Context Not comparable
DeepSeek Coder 33B: —, Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 42.0 (#126)
| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 33B | Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1379 |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
DeepSeek Coder 33B: —, Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 55.5 (#142)
| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 33B | Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1356 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1333 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1365 |
Frequently asked questions
Is DeepSeek Coder 33B better than Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct?
Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct has enough public results to be ranked (#186); DeepSeek Coder 33B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.
Is DeepSeek Coder 33B or Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct better for coding?
DeepSeek Coder 33B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 37.4 versus 36.2 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do DeepSeek Coder 33B and Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct share?
0 benchmarks have published results for both models. DeepSeek Coder 33B has 9 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct has 25.