Model comparison

Deepseek Coder v2 vs Granite 4.0 Micro

Deepseek Coder v2 is the stronger model overall, scoring 35.9 to 29.0 on the Noometry Index.

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Deepseek Coder v2 DeepSeek

35.9

Rank #220 Confirmed

Granite 4.0 Micro IBM

29.0

Rank #318 Confirmed

Summary

  • The widest gap is in math, where Deepseek Coder v2 leads 34.9 to 12.0.

Side by side

Deepseek Coder v2 and Granite 4.0 Micro specifications
Deepseek Coder v2Granite 4.0 Micro
ProviderDeepSeekIBM
Noometry Index35.929.0
Released2024-06-172025-10-02
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window—131K
Max output—118K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.017
Output $ / M tokens—$0.11
Results tracked248

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Deepseek Coder v2: 38.1 (#183), Granite 4.0 Micro: —

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepseek Coder v2Granite 4.0 Micro
BigCodeBench Instruct48.2%—
LMArena Coding1251—
BigCodeBench Complete59.7%—
HumanEval+82.3%—
MBPP+75.1%—

Reasoning Deepseek Coder v2 leads

Deepseek Coder v2: 23.6 (#176), Granite 4.0 Micro: 19.2 (#265)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepseek Coder v2Granite 4.0 Micro
Chess Puzzles—0%
LMArena Hard Prompts1207—
WinoGrande83.7%—

Math Deepseek Coder v2 leads

Deepseek Coder v2: 34.9 (#190), Granite 4.0 Micro: 12.0 (#307)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepseek Coder v2Granite 4.0 Micro
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—2.8%
Omni-MATH—20.9%
LMArena Math1241—
GSM8K94.5%—

Knowledge Deepseek Coder v2 leads

Deepseek Coder v2: 32.3 (#212), Granite 4.0 Micro: 9.9 (#304)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepseek Coder v2Granite 4.0 Micro
GPQA Diamond—28.3%
MMLU-Pro—39.5%
GPQA (HELM)—30.7%
LMArena Expert1181—
ARC (AI2) Challenge64.3%—

Multilingual Not comparable

Deepseek Coder v2: 36.3 (#240), Granite 4.0 Micro: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepseek Coder v2Granite 4.0 Micro
LMArena Non-English1182—
LMArena Chinese1201—
LMArena French1185—
LMArena German1164—
LMArena Japanese1126—
LMArena Korean1104—
LMArena Russian1188—
LMArena Spanish1153—

Instruction Following Granite 4.0 Micro leads

Deepseek Coder v2: 61.7 (#242), Granite 4.0 Micro: 69.9 (#169)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepseek Coder v2Granite 4.0 Micro
IFEval—84.9%
LMArena Instruction Following1180—

Long Context Not comparable

Deepseek Coder v2: 37.0 (#224), Granite 4.0 Micro: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepseek Coder v2Granite 4.0 Micro
LMArena Longer Query1219—

Writing & Preference Granite 4.0 Micro leads

Deepseek Coder v2: 38.2 (#253), Granite 4.0 Micro: 46.7 (#216)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepseek Coder v2Granite 4.0 Micro
LMArena Text1191—
LMArena Creative Writing1120—
WildBench—67%
LMArena Multi-Turn1177—

Frequently asked questions

Is Deepseek Coder v2 better than Granite 4.0 Micro?

Deepseek Coder v2 is the stronger model overall, scoring 35.9 to 29.0 on the Noometry Index.

How many benchmarks do Deepseek Coder v2 and Granite 4.0 Micro share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Deepseek Coder v2 has 24 scored results on Noometry and Granite 4.0 Micro has 8.

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