Model comparison

DeepSeek Coder 33B vs QwQ-32B

QwQ-32B has enough public results to be ranked (#159); DeepSeek Coder 33B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Last verified . 3 shared benchmarks.

DeepSeek Coder 33B DeepSeek

38.9

Unranked Sparse

QwQ-32B Alibaba (Qwen)

39.8

Rank #159 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 3 benchmarks with published results for both. DeepSeek Coder 33B scores higher in 1 category and QwQ-32B in 0 categories; one gap is clear of the uncertainty.

Side by side

DeepSeek Coder 33B and QwQ-32B specifications
DeepSeek Coder 33BQwQ-32B
ProviderDeepSeekAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index38.939.8
Released2023-11-022024-11-28
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window——
Max output——
Input $ / M tokens——
Output $ / M tokens——
Results tracked936

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Category by category

Coding DeepSeek Coder 33B leads

DeepSeek Coder 33B: 38.0 (#184), QwQ-32B: 35.4 (#226)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek Coder 33BQwQ-32B
BigCodeBench Instruct42%44.6%
BigCodeBench Complete51.1%54.4%
Aider Polyglot—20.9%
LiveBench Coding—72.2%
LMArena Coding—1333
HumanEval+75%—
MBPP+70.1%—

Reasoning Not comparable

DeepSeek Coder 33B: —, QwQ-32B: 23.7 (#174)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek Coder 33BQwQ-32B
Epoch Capabilities Index96.32137.6
Chess Puzzles—5%
LiveBench Reasoning—83.5%
LMArena Hard Prompts—1325
LiveBench Data Analysis—65%
ForecastBench—58.3
LiveBench—72%
WinoGrande62%—

Math Not comparable

DeepSeek Coder 33B: —, QwQ-32B: 38.0 (#143)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek Coder 33BQwQ-32B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—59.2%
LiveBench Math—77.8%
LMArena Math—1359
GSM8K35.4%—

Knowledge Not comparable

DeepSeek Coder 33B: —, QwQ-32B: 37.2 (#158)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek Coder 33BQwQ-32B
GPQA Diamond—65.3%
Confabulations—15.6%
LMArena Expert—1324
ARC (AI2) Challenge42.2%—
MMLU39.4%—

Multilingual Not comparable

DeepSeek Coder 33B: —, QwQ-32B: 44.8 (#176)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek Coder 33BQwQ-32B
LMArena Non-English—1305
LMArena Chinese—1378
LMArena French—1336
LMArena German—1313
LMArena Japanese—1262
LMArena Korean—1279
LMArena Russian—1297
LMArena Spanish—1354

Instruction Following Not comparable

DeepSeek Coder 33B: —, QwQ-32B: 72.6 (#137)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek Coder 33BQwQ-32B
LiveBench Instruction Following—81.8%
LMArena Instruction Following—1297

Long Context Not comparable

DeepSeek Coder 33B: —, QwQ-32B: 49.0 (#11)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek Coder 33BQwQ-32B
Fiction.LiveBench—83.3%
LMArena Longer Query—1308

Writing & Preference Not comparable

DeepSeek Coder 33B: —, QwQ-32B: 50.6 (#180)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek Coder 33BQwQ-32B
LMArena Text—1329
LMArena Creative Writing—1288
Short-Story Creative Writing—80.2%
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—1257
LMArena Multi-Turn—1314
LiveBench Language—51.4%

Frequently asked questions

Is DeepSeek Coder 33B better than QwQ-32B?

QwQ-32B has enough public results to be ranked (#159); DeepSeek Coder 33B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Is DeepSeek Coder 33B or QwQ-32B better for coding?

DeepSeek Coder 33B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 38.0 versus 35.4 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do DeepSeek Coder 33B and QwQ-32B share?

3 benchmarks have published results for both models. DeepSeek Coder 33B has 9 scored results on Noometry and QwQ-32B has 36.

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