Model comparison

DeepSeek Coder 6.7B vs DeepSeek-V3

DeepSeek-V3 has enough public results to be ranked (#157); DeepSeek Coder 6.7B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Last verified . 8 shared benchmarks.

DeepSeek Coder 6.7B DeepSeek

37.1

Unranked Sparse

DeepSeek-V3 DeepSeek

39.2

Rank #157 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 8 benchmarks with published results for both. DeepSeek Coder 6.7B scores higher in 0 categories and DeepSeek-V3 in 1 category; one gap is clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in coding, where DeepSeek-V3 leads 41.9 to 35.2.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is BigCodeBench Complete: 43.8% for DeepSeek Coder 6.7B and 62.2% for DeepSeek-V3.

Side by side

DeepSeek Coder 6.7B and DeepSeek-V3 specifications
DeepSeek Coder 6.7BDeepSeek-V3
ProviderDeepSeekDeepSeek
Noometry Index37.139.2
Released2023-11-022024-12-26
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window—164K
Max output—164K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.24
Output $ / M tokens—$0.90
Results tracked960

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Category by category

Coding DeepSeek-V3 leads

DeepSeek Coder 6.7B: 35.2 (#216), DeepSeek-V3: 41.9 (#99)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek Coder 6.7BDeepSeek-V3
BigCodeBench Instruct35.5%50%
BigCodeBench Complete43.8%62.2%
HumanEval+71.3%86.6%
MBPP+65.6%73%
Aider Polyglot—55.1%
SciCode—35.8%
WeirdML—36.1%
LiveBench Coding—70.9%
LMArena Coding—1368

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

DeepSeek Coder 6.7B: —, DeepSeek-V3: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek Coder 6.7BDeepSeek-V3
METR Time Horizons—49.6%

Reasoning Not comparable

DeepSeek Coder 6.7B: —, DeepSeek-V3: 20.0 (#226)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek Coder 6.7BDeepSeek-V3
Epoch Capabilities Index88.88135.95
WinoGrande57.6%85.2%
SimpleBench—27.2%
Kagi LLM Benchmark—52.3%
CritPt—0%
LiveBench Reasoning—65.8%
LMArena Hard Prompts—1365
DTBench—64.8%
LiveBench Data Analysis—60.9%
LMCA—15.5%
BIG-Bench Hard—87.5%
ForecastBench—59.1
HellaSwag—88.9%
LiveBench—66.9%
PIQA—84.7%

Math Not comparable

DeepSeek Coder 6.7B: —, DeepSeek-V3: 30.4 (#208)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek Coder 6.7BDeepSeek-V3
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—37.8%
Omni-MATH—40.3%
LiveBench Math—73.5%
LMArena Math—1373
MATH Level 5—75.5%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—1.7%
GSM8K21.3%—

Knowledge Not comparable

DeepSeek Coder 6.7B: —, DeepSeek-V3: 37.5 (#147)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek Coder 6.7BDeepSeek-V3
ARC (AI2) Challenge36.4%95.3%
MMLU36.4%87.2%
GPQA Diamond—67.6%
MMLU-Pro—72.3%
Confabulations—26.1%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—6.1%
GPQA (HELM)—53.8%
LMArena Expert—1352
TriviaQA—82.9%

Multilingual Not comparable

DeepSeek Coder 6.7B: —, DeepSeek-V3: 48.8 (#138)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek Coder 6.7BDeepSeek-V3
LMArena Non-English—1358
LMArena Chinese—1390
LMArena French—1386
LMArena German—1374
LMArena Japanese—1333
LMArena Korean—1321
LMArena Russian—1372
LMArena Spanish—1358

Instruction Following Not comparable

DeepSeek Coder 6.7B: —, DeepSeek-V3: 73.0 (#125)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek Coder 6.7BDeepSeek-V3
LiveBench Instruction Following—81.5%
IFEval—83.2%
LMArena Instruction Following—1345

Long Context Not comparable

DeepSeek Coder 6.7B: —, DeepSeek-V3: 34.0 (#248)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek Coder 6.7BDeepSeek-V3
Fiction.LiveBench—50%
LMArena Longer Query—1353

Writing & Preference Not comparable

DeepSeek Coder 6.7B: —, DeepSeek-V3: 57.6 (#124)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek Coder 6.7BDeepSeek-V3
LMArena Text—1375
LMArena Creative Writing—1364
Short-Story Creative Writing—77%
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—1472
WildBench—83%
LMArena Multi-Turn—1389
LiveBench Language—49.1%

Frequently asked questions

Is DeepSeek Coder 6.7B better than DeepSeek-V3?

DeepSeek-V3 has enough public results to be ranked (#157); DeepSeek Coder 6.7B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Is DeepSeek Coder 6.7B or DeepSeek-V3 better for coding?

DeepSeek-V3 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 41.9 versus 35.2 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do DeepSeek Coder 6.7B and DeepSeek-V3 share?

8 benchmarks have published results for both models. DeepSeek Coder 6.7B has 9 scored results on Noometry and DeepSeek-V3 has 60.

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