Model comparison

DeepSeek Coder 6.7B vs GPT-5 Nano

GPT-5 Nano has enough public results to be ranked (#234); DeepSeek Coder 6.7B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Last verified . 1 shared benchmarks.

DeepSeek Coder 6.7B DeepSeek

37.1

Unranked Sparse

GPT-5 Nano OpenAI

33.4

Rank #234 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 1 benchmark with published results for both. DeepSeek Coder 6.7B scores higher in 1 category and GPT-5 Nano in 0 categories; one gap is clear of the uncertainty.
  • DeepSeek Coder 6.7B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

DeepSeek Coder 6.7B and GPT-5 Nano specifications
DeepSeek Coder 6.7BGPT-5 Nano
ProviderDeepSeekOpenAI
Noometry Index37.133.4
Released2023-11-022025-08-07
WeightsOpenProprietary
Context window—400K
Max output—128K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.05
Output $ / M tokens—$0.40
Results tracked948

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Category by category

Coding DeepSeek Coder 6.7B leads

DeepSeek Coder 6.7B: 35.2 (#216), GPT-5 Nano: 33.3 (#248)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek Coder 6.7BGPT-5 Nano
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)—34.8%
WeirdML—38.1%
BigCodeBench Instruct35.5%—
LMArena Coding—1351
BigCodeBench Complete43.8%—
ALE-Bench—718.67
HumanEval+71.3%—
MBPP+65.6%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

DeepSeek Coder 6.7B: —, GPT-5 Nano: 25.6 (#99)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek Coder 6.7BGPT-5 Nano
Terminal-Bench—21.8%
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—51.5%

Reasoning Not comparable

DeepSeek Coder 6.7B: —, GPT-5 Nano: 16.4 (#291)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek Coder 6.7BGPT-5 Nano
Epoch Capabilities Index88.88139.39
ARC-AGI-2—2.6%
Kagi LLM Benchmark—62.2%
ARC-AGI-1—20.7%
Chess Puzzles—27%
LMArena Hard Prompts—1329
Mystery Game Puzzles—9%
DTBench—62.7%
LMCA—7.9%
ForecastBench—59.1
WinoGrande57.6%—

Math Not comparable

DeepSeek Coder 6.7B: —, GPT-5 Nano: 29.1 (#221)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek Coder 6.7BGPT-5 Nano
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)—20%
FrontierMath Tier 4—2.4%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—81.1%
ProofBench—12%
Omni-MATH—54.6%
LMArena Math—1318
MATH Level 5—95.2%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—8.3%
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)—2.1%
GSM8K21.3%—

Knowledge Not comparable

DeepSeek Coder 6.7B: —, GPT-5 Nano: 35.8 (#166)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek Coder 6.7BGPT-5 Nano
GPQA Diamond—69.4%
SimpleQA Verified—11.7%
MMLU-Pro—77.8%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—10.5%
GPQA (HELM)—67.9%
LMArena Expert—1321
ARC (AI2) Challenge36.4%—
MMLU36.4%—

Multimodal Not comparable

DeepSeek Coder 6.7B: —, GPT-5 Nano: 30.7 (#102)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek Coder 6.7BGPT-5 Nano
LMArena Vision—1159
VPCT—37.2%

Multilingual Not comparable

DeepSeek Coder 6.7B: —, GPT-5 Nano: 45.5 (#167)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek Coder 6.7BGPT-5 Nano
LMArena Non-English—1313
LMArena Chinese—1355
LMArena German—1329
LMArena Korean—1269
LMArena Russian—1296
LMArena Spanish—1360

Instruction Following Not comparable

DeepSeek Coder 6.7B: —, GPT-5 Nano: 75.2 (#72)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek Coder 6.7BGPT-5 Nano
IFEval—93.2%
LMArena Instruction Following—1306

Long Context Not comparable

DeepSeek Coder 6.7B: —, GPT-5 Nano: 31.3 (#275)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek Coder 6.7BGPT-5 Nano
Fiction.LiveBench—44.4%
LMArena Longer Query—1313

Writing & Preference Not comparable

DeepSeek Coder 6.7B: —, GPT-5 Nano: 39.4 (#244)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek Coder 6.7BGPT-5 Nano
LMArena Text—1320
LMArena Creative Writing—1250
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—705
WildBench—80.6%
LMArena Multi-Turn—1311

Frequently asked questions

Is DeepSeek Coder 6.7B better than GPT-5 Nano?

GPT-5 Nano has enough public results to be ranked (#234); DeepSeek Coder 6.7B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Is DeepSeek Coder 6.7B or GPT-5 Nano better for coding?

DeepSeek Coder 6.7B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 35.2 versus 33.3 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do DeepSeek Coder 6.7B and GPT-5 Nano share?

1 benchmark has published results for both models. DeepSeek Coder 6.7B has 9 scored results on Noometry and GPT-5 Nano has 48.

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