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Model comparison

Deepseek Coder v2 vs Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct

Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.7 to 35.3 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 17 shared benchmarks.

Deepseek Coder v2 DeepSeek

35.3

Rank #217 Confirmed

Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct Alibaba (Qwen)

37.7

Rank #186 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. Deepseek Coder v2 scores higher in 1 category and Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct in 7 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct leads 55.5 to 38.4.

Side by side

Deepseek Coder v2Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct
ProviderDeepSeekAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index35.337.7
Released2024-06-172025-04
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window—262K
Max output—66K
Input $ / M tokens—$1.50
Output $ / M tokens—$7.50
Results tracked2425

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Category by category

Coding Deepseek Coder v2 leads

Deepseek Coder v2: 37.5 (#178), Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 36.2 (#199)

BenchmarkDeepseek Coder v2Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct
LMArena Coding12511413
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)—55.4%
LMArena WebDev—1275
GSO—4.9%
WeirdML—41.2%
BigCodeBench Instruct48.2%—
BigCodeBench Complete59.7%—
ALE-Bench—461.45
AlgoTune—1.44
HumanEval+82.3%—
MBPP+75.1%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Deepseek Coder v2: —, Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 23.7 (#116)

BenchmarkDeepseek Coder v2Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct
Terminal-Bench—27.2%

Reasoning Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct leads

Deepseek Coder v2: 22.6 (#175), Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 24.7 (#141)

BenchmarkDeepseek Coder v2Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct
LMArena Hard Prompts12071372
Kagi LLM Benchmark—49.5%
WinoGrande83.7%—

Math Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct leads

Deepseek Coder v2: 32.3 (#188), Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 34.9 (#151)

BenchmarkDeepseek Coder v2Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct
LMArena Math12411364
GSM8K94.5%—

Knowledge Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct leads

Deepseek Coder v2: 31.7 (#209), Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 36.4 (#159)

BenchmarkDeepseek Coder v2Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct
LMArena Expert11811337
ARC (AI2) Challenge64.3%—

Multilingual Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct leads

Deepseek Coder v2: 36.4 (#235), Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 47.8 (#143)

BenchmarkDeepseek Coder v2Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct
LMArena Non-English11821345
LMArena Chinese12011356
LMArena French11841394
LMArena German11641324
LMArena Japanese11261309
LMArena Korean11041307
LMArena Russian11881367
LMArena Spanish11531360

Instruction Following Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct leads

Deepseek Coder v2: 61.9 (#237), Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 71.8 (#142)

BenchmarkDeepseek Coder v2Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct
LMArena Instruction Following11801356

Long Context Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct leads

Deepseek Coder v2: 37.0 (#219), Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 42.0 (#126)

BenchmarkDeepseek Coder v2Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct
LMArena Longer Query12191379

Writing & Preference Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct leads

Deepseek Coder v2: 38.4 (#249), Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 55.5 (#142)

BenchmarkDeepseek Coder v2Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct
LMArena Text11911356
LMArena Creative Writing11201333
LMArena Multi-Turn11761365

Frequently asked questions

Is Deepseek Coder v2 better than Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct?

Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.7 to 35.3 on the Noometry Index.

Is Deepseek Coder v2 or Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct better for coding?

Deepseek Coder v2 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 37.5 versus 36.2 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Deepseek Coder v2 and Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct share?

17 benchmarks have published results for both models. Deepseek Coder v2 has 24 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct has 25.

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