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Deepseek Coder v2 vs Nemotron 3 Ultra

Nemotron 3 Ultra is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.5 to 35.9 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 16 shared benchmarks.

Deepseek Coder v2 DeepSeek

35.9

Rank #220 Confirmed

Nemotron 3 Ultra NVIDIA

42.5

Rank #113 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 16 benchmarks with published results for both. Deepseek Coder v2 scores higher in 0 categories and Nemotron 3 Ultra in 8 categories; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Nemotron 3 Ultra leads 66.3 to 38.2.

Side by side

Deepseek Coder v2Nemotron 3 Ultra
ProviderDeepSeekNVIDIA
Noometry Index35.942.5
Released2024-06-172026-06-04
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window—262K
Max output—128K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.50
Output $ / M tokens—$2.20
Results tracked2430

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Category by category

Coding Too close to call

Deepseek Coder v2: 38.1 (#183), Nemotron 3 Ultra: 38.1 (#182)

BenchmarkDeepseek Coder v2Nemotron 3 Ultra
LMArena Coding12511468
FrontierCode—13.6%
SciCode—40.3%
WeirdML—43.5%
BigCodeBench Instruct48.2%—
BigCodeBench Complete59.7%—
HumanEval+82.3%—
MBPP+75.1%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Deepseek Coder v2: —, Nemotron 3 Ultra: 23.4 (#126)

BenchmarkDeepseek Coder v2Nemotron 3 Ultra
APEX-Agents—22.7%

Reasoning Nemotron 3 Ultra leads

Deepseek Coder v2: 23.6 (#176), Nemotron 3 Ultra: 31.0 (#82)

BenchmarkDeepseek Coder v2Nemotron 3 Ultra
LMArena Hard Prompts12071452
CritPt—3.1%
Chess Puzzles—12%
Mystery Game Puzzles—20%
DTBench—90.1%
LMCA—36.9%
Epoch Capabilities Index—146.17
WinoGrande83.7%—

Math Too close to call

Deepseek Coder v2: 34.9 (#190), Nemotron 3 Ultra: 35.3 (#187)

BenchmarkDeepseek Coder v2Nemotron 3 Ultra
LMArena Math12411457
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—86.7%
ProofBench—2%
GSM8K94.5%—

Knowledge Nemotron 3 Ultra leads

Deepseek Coder v2: 32.3 (#212), Nemotron 3 Ultra: 52.5 (#61)

BenchmarkDeepseek Coder v2Nemotron 3 Ultra
LMArena Expert11811472
GPQA Diamond—85.4%
ARC (AI2) Challenge64.3%—

Multilingual Nemotron 3 Ultra leads

Deepseek Coder v2: 36.3 (#240), Nemotron 3 Ultra: 53.5 (#64)

BenchmarkDeepseek Coder v2Nemotron 3 Ultra
LMArena Non-English11821427
LMArena Chinese12011497
LMArena French11851472
LMArena German11641471
LMArena Korean11041386
LMArena Russian11881417
LMArena Spanish11531454
LMArena Japanese1126—

Instruction Following Nemotron 3 Ultra leads

Deepseek Coder v2: 61.7 (#242), Nemotron 3 Ultra: 74.7 (#88)

BenchmarkDeepseek Coder v2Nemotron 3 Ultra
LMArena Instruction Following11801418

Long Context Nemotron 3 Ultra leads

Deepseek Coder v2: 37.0 (#224), Nemotron 3 Ultra: 43.9 (#81)

BenchmarkDeepseek Coder v2Nemotron 3 Ultra
LMArena Longer Query12191437

Writing & Preference Nemotron 3 Ultra leads

Deepseek Coder v2: 38.2 (#253), Nemotron 3 Ultra: 66.3 (#36)

BenchmarkDeepseek Coder v2Nemotron 3 Ultra
LMArena Text11911445
LMArena Creative Writing11201398
LMArena Multi-Turn11771411
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—1692

Frequently asked questions

Is Deepseek Coder v2 better than Nemotron 3 Ultra?

Nemotron 3 Ultra is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.5 to 35.9 on the Noometry Index.

Is Deepseek Coder v2 or Nemotron 3 Ultra better for coding?

They score almost the same on coding (38.1 vs 38.1); test both on your own repository before choosing.

How many benchmarks do Deepseek Coder v2 and Nemotron 3 Ultra share?

16 benchmarks have published results for both models. Deepseek Coder v2 has 24 scored results on Noometry and Nemotron 3 Ultra has 30.

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