Model comparison

Deepseek Coder v2 vs Qwen1.5-72B

Deepseek Coder v2 is the stronger model overall, scoring 35.3 to 30.3 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 21 shared benchmarks.

Deepseek Coder v2 DeepSeek

35.3

Rank #217 Confirmed

Qwen1.5-72B Alibaba (Qwen)

30.3

Rank #282 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 21 benchmarks with published results for both. Deepseek Coder v2 scores higher in 8 categories and Qwen1.5-72B in 0 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Deepseek Coder v2 leads 31.7 to 11.5.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is BigCodeBench Complete: 59.7% for Deepseek Coder v2 and 40.3% for Qwen1.5-72B.

Side by side

Deepseek Coder v2 and Qwen1.5-72B specifications
Deepseek Coder v2Qwen1.5-72B
ProviderDeepSeekAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index35.330.3
Released2024-06-172024-02-04
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window——
Max output——
Input $ / M tokens——
Output $ / M tokens——
Results tracked2422

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Category by category

Coding Deepseek Coder v2 leads

Deepseek Coder v2: 37.5 (#178), Qwen1.5-72B: 31.4 (#272)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepseek Coder v2Qwen1.5-72B
BigCodeBench Instruct48.2%33.2%
LMArena Coding12511166
BigCodeBench Complete59.7%40.3%
HumanEval+82.3%59.1%
MBPP+75.1%61.6%

Reasoning Deepseek Coder v2 leads

Deepseek Coder v2: 22.6 (#175), Qwen1.5-72B: 21.2 (#201)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepseek Coder v2Qwen1.5-72B
LMArena Hard Prompts12071148
WinoGrande83.7%—

Math Deepseek Coder v2 leads

Deepseek Coder v2: 32.3 (#188), Qwen1.5-72B: 30.7 (#205)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepseek Coder v2Qwen1.5-72B
LMArena Math12411164
GSM8K94.5%—

Knowledge Deepseek Coder v2 leads

Deepseek Coder v2: 31.7 (#209), Qwen1.5-72B: 11.5 (#295)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepseek Coder v2Qwen1.5-72B
LMArena Expert11811136
GPQA Diamond—28.8%
ARC (AI2) Challenge64.3%—

Multilingual Deepseek Coder v2 leads

Deepseek Coder v2: 36.4 (#235), Qwen1.5-72B: 33.4 (#248)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepseek Coder v2Qwen1.5-72B
LMArena Non-English11821135
LMArena Chinese12011186
LMArena French11841158
LMArena German11641084
LMArena Japanese11261061
LMArena Korean11041049
LMArena Russian11881104
LMArena Spanish11531110

Instruction Following Deepseek Coder v2 leads

Deepseek Coder v2: 61.9 (#237), Qwen1.5-72B: 59.6 (#251)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepseek Coder v2Qwen1.5-72B
LMArena Instruction Following11801142

Long Context Deepseek Coder v2 leads

Deepseek Coder v2: 37.0 (#219), Qwen1.5-72B: 35.0 (#238)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepseek Coder v2Qwen1.5-72B
LMArena Longer Query12191157

Writing & Preference Too close to call

Deepseek Coder v2: 38.4 (#249), Qwen1.5-72B: 37.4 (#253)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepseek Coder v2Qwen1.5-72B
LMArena Text11911166
LMArena Creative Writing11201137
LMArena Multi-Turn11761160

Frequently asked questions

Is Deepseek Coder v2 better than Qwen1.5-72B?

Deepseek Coder v2 is the stronger model overall, scoring 35.3 to 30.3 on the Noometry Index.

Is Deepseek Coder v2 or Qwen1.5-72B better for coding?

Deepseek Coder v2 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 37.5 versus 31.4 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Deepseek Coder v2 and Qwen1.5-72B share?

21 benchmarks have published results for both models. Deepseek Coder v2 has 24 scored results on Noometry and Qwen1.5-72B has 22.

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