Model comparison

DeepSeek Coder 6.7B vs Gemma 3 27B

Gemma 3 27B has enough public results to be ranked (#284); DeepSeek Coder 6.7B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Last verified . 1 shared benchmarks.

DeepSeek Coder 6.7B DeepSeek

37.6

Unranked Sparse

Gemma 3 27B Google

30.8

Rank #284 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 1 benchmark with published results for both. DeepSeek Coder 6.7B scores higher in 1 category and Gemma 3 27B in 0 categories; one gap is clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in coding, where DeepSeek Coder 6.7B leads 35.8 to 22.5.

Side by side

DeepSeek Coder 6.7B and Gemma 3 27B specifications
DeepSeek Coder 6.7BGemma 3 27B
ProviderDeepSeekGoogle
Noometry Index37.630.8
Released2023-11-022025-03-11
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window—131K
Max output—8K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.08
Output $ / M tokens—$0.16
Results tracked943

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Category by category

Coding DeepSeek Coder 6.7B leads

DeepSeek Coder 6.7B: 35.8 (#219), Gemma 3 27B: 22.5 (#334)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek Coder 6.7BGemma 3 27B
Aider Polyglot—4.9%
SciCode—21.2%
BigCodeBench Instruct35.5%—
LiveBench Coding—39.9%
LMArena Coding—1322
BigCodeBench Complete43.8%—
HumanEval+71.3%—
MBPP+65.6%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

DeepSeek Coder 6.7B: —, Gemma 3 27B: 25.1 (#110)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek Coder 6.7BGemma 3 27B
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—29.5%

Reasoning Not comparable

DeepSeek Coder 6.7B: —, Gemma 3 27B: 16.7 (#301)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek Coder 6.7BGemma 3 27B
Epoch Capabilities Index89.62130.04
Kagi LLM Benchmark—40.4%
CritPt—0%
Chess Puzzles—0%
LiveBench Reasoning—43.8%
LMArena Hard Prompts—1340
DTBench—52.5%
LiveBench Data Analysis—51.5%
LMCA—12.3%
LiveBench—50%
WinoGrande57.6%—

Math Not comparable

DeepSeek Coder 6.7B: —, Gemma 3 27B: 25.9 (#265)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek Coder 6.7BGemma 3 27B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—22.5%
LiveBench Math—55.4%
LMArena Math—1312
MATH Level 5—74%
GSM8K21.3%—

Knowledge Not comparable

DeepSeek Coder 6.7B: —, Gemma 3 27B: 25.5 (#261)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek Coder 6.7BGemma 3 27B
GPQA Diamond—47.7%
Confabulations—40.3%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—7.4%
LMArena Expert—1304
ARC (AI2) Challenge36.4%—
MMLU36.4%—

Multimodal Not comparable

DeepSeek Coder 6.7B: —, Gemma 3 27B: 32.6 (#100)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek Coder 6.7BGemma 3 27B
LMArena Vision—1164
GeoBench—52%

Multilingual Not comparable

DeepSeek Coder 6.7B: —, Gemma 3 27B: 46.9 (#155)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek Coder 6.7BGemma 3 27B
LMArena Non-English—1334
LMArena Chinese—1346
LMArena French—1368
LMArena German—1362
LMArena Japanese—1287
LMArena Korean—1308
LMArena Russian—1349
LMArena Spanish—1349

Instruction Following Not comparable

DeepSeek Coder 6.7B: —, Gemma 3 27B: 70.6 (#160)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek Coder 6.7BGemma 3 27B
LiveBench Instruction Following—74.9%
LMArena Instruction Following—1321

Long Context Not comparable

DeepSeek Coder 6.7B: —, Gemma 3 27B: 27.6 (#293)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek Coder 6.7BGemma 3 27B
Fiction.LiveBench—33.3%
LMArena Longer Query—1333

Writing & Preference Not comparable

DeepSeek Coder 6.7B: —, Gemma 3 27B: 52.5 (#168)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek Coder 6.7BGemma 3 27B
LMArena Text—1358
LMArena Creative Writing—1346
Short-Story Creative Writing—79.9%
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—1266
LMArena Multi-Turn—1345
LiveBench Language—34.6%

Frequently asked questions

Is DeepSeek Coder 6.7B better than Gemma 3 27B?

Gemma 3 27B has enough public results to be ranked (#284); DeepSeek Coder 6.7B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Is DeepSeek Coder 6.7B or Gemma 3 27B better for coding?

DeepSeek Coder 6.7B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 35.8 versus 22.5 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do DeepSeek Coder 6.7B and Gemma 3 27B share?

1 benchmark has published results for both models. DeepSeek Coder 6.7B has 9 scored results on Noometry and Gemma 3 27B has 43.

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