Model comparison
Deepseek Coder v2 vs Qwen2.5 72B Instruct
Deepseek Coder v2 is the stronger model overall, scoring 35.9 to 31.9 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 21 shared benchmarks.
DeepSeek
Alibaba (Qwen)Summary
- They share 21 benchmarks with published results for both. Deepseek Coder v2 scores higher in 4 categories and Qwen2.5 72B Instruct in 4 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where Deepseek Coder v2 leads 34.9 to 19.3.
Side by side
| Deepseek Coder v2 | Qwen2.5 72B Instruct | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | DeepSeek | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 35.9 | 31.9 |
| Released | 2024-06-17 | 2024-09 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | — | 131K |
| Max output | — | 8K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $1.40 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $5.60 |
| Results tracked | 24 | 43 |
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Category by category
Coding Deepseek Coder v2 leads
Deepseek Coder v2: 38.1 (#183), Qwen2.5 72B Instruct: 33.2 (#260)
| Benchmark | Deepseek Coder v2 | Qwen2.5 72B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 48.2% | 45.8% |
| LMArena Coding | 1251 | 1292 |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 59.7% | 55.9% |
| WeirdML | — | 16% |
| HumanEval+ | 82.3% | — |
| MBPP+ | 75.1% | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Deepseek Coder v2: —, Qwen2.5 72B Instruct: 22.1 (#133)
| Benchmark | Deepseek Coder v2 | Qwen2.5 72B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| TheAgentCompany | — | 5.7% |
| BALROG | — | 16.2% |
| METR Time Horizons | — | 35.8% |
Reasoning Deepseek Coder v2 leads
Deepseek Coder v2: 23.6 (#176), Qwen2.5 72B Instruct: 22.3 (#199)
| Benchmark | Deepseek Coder v2 | Qwen2.5 72B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1207 | 1271 |
| WinoGrande | 83.7% | 82.3% |
| DTBench | — | 62.9% |
| LMCA | — | 13.4% |
| BIG-Bench Hard | — | 79.8% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 129 |
| ForecastBench | — | 57.5 |
| HellaSwag | — | 84.8% |
| PIQA | — | 82.6% |
Math Deepseek Coder v2 leads
Deepseek Coder v2: 34.9 (#190), Qwen2.5 72B Instruct: 19.3 (#287)
| Benchmark | Deepseek Coder v2 | Qwen2.5 72B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1241 | 1283 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 8.1% |
| Omni-MATH | — | 33% |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 63.2% |
| GSM8K | 94.5% | — |
Knowledge Deepseek Coder v2 leads
Deepseek Coder v2: 32.3 (#212), Qwen2.5 72B Instruct: 27.0 (#253)
| Benchmark | Deepseek Coder v2 | Qwen2.5 72B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1181 | 1245 |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 64.3% | 94.5% |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 49.1% |
| MMLU-Pro | — | 63.1% |
| Confabulations | — | 19.1% |
| GPQA (HELM) | — | 42.6% |
| MMLU | — | 85.3% |
| TriviaQA | — | 71.9% |
Multilingual Qwen2.5 72B Instruct leads
Deepseek Coder v2: 36.3 (#240), Qwen2.5 72B Instruct: 41.0 (#213)
| Benchmark | Deepseek Coder v2 | Qwen2.5 72B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1182 | 1252 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1201 | 1272 |
| LMArena French | 1185 | 1280 |
| LMArena German | 1164 | 1234 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1126 | 1180 |
| LMArena Korean | 1104 | 1188 |
| LMArena Russian | 1188 | 1264 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1153 | 1256 |
Instruction Following Qwen2.5 72B Instruct leads
Deepseek Coder v2: 61.7 (#242), Qwen2.5 72B Instruct: 65.5 (#221)
| Benchmark | Deepseek Coder v2 | Qwen2.5 72B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1180 | 1254 |
| IFEval | — | 80.6% |
Long Context Qwen2.5 72B Instruct leads
Deepseek Coder v2: 37.0 (#224), Qwen2.5 72B Instruct: 38.9 (#188)
| Benchmark | Deepseek Coder v2 | Qwen2.5 72B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1219 | 1282 |
Writing & Preference Qwen2.5 72B Instruct leads
Deepseek Coder v2: 38.2 (#253), Qwen2.5 72B Instruct: 46.7 (#215)
| Benchmark | Deepseek Coder v2 | Qwen2.5 72B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1191 | 1269 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1120 | 1221 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1177 | 1272 |
| WildBench | — | 80.2% |
Frequently asked questions
Is Deepseek Coder v2 better than Qwen2.5 72B Instruct?
Deepseek Coder v2 is the stronger model overall, scoring 35.9 to 31.9 on the Noometry Index.
Is Deepseek Coder v2 or Qwen2.5 72B Instruct better for coding?
Deepseek Coder v2 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 38.1 versus 33.2 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Deepseek Coder v2 and Qwen2.5 72B Instruct share?
21 benchmarks have published results for both models. Deepseek Coder v2 has 24 scored results on Noometry and Qwen2.5 72B Instruct has 43.