Model comparison

DeepSeek Coder 6.7B vs QwQ-32B

QwQ-32B has enough public results to be ranked (#153); DeepSeek Coder 6.7B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Last verified . 3 shared benchmarks.

DeepSeek Coder 6.7B DeepSeek

37.1

Unranked Sparse

QwQ-32B Alibaba (Qwen)

39.4

Rank #153 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 3 benchmarks with published results for both. DeepSeek Coder 6.7B scores higher in 1 category and QwQ-32B in 0 categories, but none of those gaps is larger than the uncertainty.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is BigCodeBench Complete: 43.8% for DeepSeek Coder 6.7B and 54.4% for QwQ-32B.

Side by side

DeepSeek Coder 6.7B and QwQ-32B specifications
DeepSeek Coder 6.7BQwQ-32B
ProviderDeepSeekAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index37.139.4
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 Too close to call

DeepSeek Coder 6.7B: 35.2 (#216), QwQ-32B: 34.9 (#220)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek Coder 6.7BQwQ-32B
BigCodeBench Instruct35.5%44.6%
BigCodeBench Complete43.8%54.4%
Aider Polyglot—20.9%
LiveBench Coding—72.2%
LMArena Coding—1333
HumanEval+71.3%—
MBPP+65.6%—

Reasoning Not comparable

DeepSeek Coder 6.7B: —, QwQ-32B: 22.9 (#171)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek Coder 6.7BQwQ-32B
Epoch Capabilities Index88.88137.6
Chess Puzzles—5%
LiveBench Reasoning—83.5%
LMArena Hard Prompts—1326
LiveBench Data Analysis—65%
ForecastBench—58.3
LiveBench—72%
WinoGrande57.6%—

Math Not comparable

DeepSeek Coder 6.7B: —, QwQ-32B: 36.2 (#123)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek Coder 6.7BQwQ-32B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—59.2%
LiveBench Math—77.8%
LMArena Math—1359
GSM8K21.3%—

Knowledge Not comparable

DeepSeek Coder 6.7B: —, QwQ-32B: 37.2 (#150)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek Coder 6.7BQwQ-32B
GPQA Diamond—65.3%
Confabulations—15.6%
LMArena Expert—1323
ARC (AI2) Challenge36.4%—
MMLU36.4%—

Multilingual Not comparable

DeepSeek Coder 6.7B: —, QwQ-32B: 45.0 (#171)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek Coder 6.7BQwQ-32B
LMArena Non-English—1306
LMArena Chinese—1378
LMArena French—1337
LMArena German—1313
LMArena Japanese—1263
LMArena Korean—1278
LMArena Russian—1297
LMArena Spanish—1353

Instruction Following Not comparable

DeepSeek Coder 6.7B: —, QwQ-32B: 72.8 (#131)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek Coder 6.7BQwQ-32B
LiveBench Instruction Following—81.8%
LMArena Instruction Following—1297

Long Context Not comparable

DeepSeek Coder 6.7B: —, QwQ-32B: 49.0 (#11)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek Coder 6.7BQwQ-32B
Fiction.LiveBench—83.3%
LMArena Longer Query—1308

Writing & Preference Not comparable

DeepSeek Coder 6.7B: —, QwQ-32B: 50.9 (#175)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek Coder 6.7BQwQ-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 6.7B better than QwQ-32B?

QwQ-32B has enough public results to be ranked (#153); DeepSeek Coder 6.7B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Is DeepSeek Coder 6.7B or QwQ-32B better for coding?

They score almost the same on coding (35.2 vs 34.9); test both on your own repository before choosing.

How many benchmarks do DeepSeek Coder 6.7B and QwQ-32B share?

3 benchmarks have published results for both models. DeepSeek Coder 6.7B has 9 scored results on Noometry and QwQ-32B has 36.

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