Model comparison
Deepseek Coder v2 vs Qwen3 8B
Deepseek Coder v2 is the stronger model overall, scoring 35.9 to 33.7 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 0 shared benchmarks.
DeepSeek
Alibaba (Qwen)Summary
- The widest gap is in reasoning, where Deepseek Coder v2 leads 23.6 to 16.6.
Side by side
| Deepseek Coder v2 | Qwen3 8B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | DeepSeek | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 35.9 | 33.7 |
| Released | 2024-06-17 | 2025-04 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | — | 131K |
| Max output | — | 8K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $0.18 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $0.70 |
| Results tracked | 24 | 11 |
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Category by category
Coding Deepseek Coder v2 leads
Deepseek Coder v2: 38.1 (#183), Qwen3 8B: 34.0 (#248)
| Benchmark | Deepseek Coder v2 | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| SciCode | — | 22.6% |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 48.2% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1251 | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 59.7% | — |
| HumanEval+ | 82.3% | — |
| MBPP+ | 75.1% | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Deepseek Coder v2: —, Qwen3 8B: 30.2 (#78)
| Benchmark | Deepseek Coder v2 | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | — | 42.6% |
Reasoning Deepseek Coder v2 leads
Deepseek Coder v2: 23.6 (#176), Qwen3 8B: 16.6 (#303)
| Benchmark | Deepseek Coder v2 | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| CritPt | — | 0% |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 5% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1207 | — |
| DTBench | — | 59.7% |
| LMCA | — | 8.8% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 136.17 |
| WinoGrande | 83.7% | — |
Math Too close to call
Deepseek Coder v2: 34.9 (#190), Qwen3 8B: 34.9 (#191)
| Benchmark | Deepseek Coder v2 | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 56.1% |
| LMArena Math | 1241 | — |
| GSM8K | 94.5% | — |
Knowledge Qwen3 8B leads
Deepseek Coder v2: 32.3 (#212), Qwen3 8B: 36.1 (#173)
| Benchmark | Deepseek Coder v2 | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | — | 56.8% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 4.8% |
| LMArena Expert | 1181 | — |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 64.3% | — |
Multilingual Not comparable
Deepseek Coder v2: 36.3 (#240), Qwen3 8B: —
| Benchmark | Deepseek Coder v2 | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1182 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1201 | — |
| LMArena French | 1185 | — |
| LMArena German | 1164 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1126 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1104 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1188 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1153 | — |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Deepseek Coder v2: 61.7 (#242), Qwen3 8B: —
| Benchmark | Deepseek Coder v2 | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1180 | — |
Long Context Too close to call
Deepseek Coder v2: 37.0 (#224), Qwen3 8B: 37.9 (#210)
| Benchmark | Deepseek Coder v2 | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 62.1% |
| LMArena Longer Query | 1219 | — |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Deepseek Coder v2: 38.2 (#253), Qwen3 8B: —
| Benchmark | Deepseek Coder v2 | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1191 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1120 | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1177 | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Deepseek Coder v2 better than Qwen3 8B?
Deepseek Coder v2 is the stronger model overall, scoring 35.9 to 33.7 on the Noometry Index.
Is Deepseek Coder v2 or Qwen3 8B better for coding?
Deepseek Coder v2 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 38.1 versus 34.0 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Deepseek Coder v2 and Qwen3 8B share?
0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Deepseek Coder v2 has 24 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3 8B has 11.