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Model comparison

Deepseek Coder v2 vs Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct

Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 43.0 to 35.9 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 17 shared benchmarks.

Deepseek Coder v2 DeepSeek

35.9

Rank #220 Confirmed

Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct Alibaba (Qwen)

43.0

Rank #102 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. Deepseek Coder v2 scores higher in 0 categories and Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct in 8 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct leads 58.0 to 38.2.

Side by side

Deepseek Coder v2Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct
ProviderDeepSeekAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index35.943.0
Released2024-06-172025-09
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window—131K
Max output—33K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.50
Output $ / M tokens—$2
Results tracked2425

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Category by category

Coding Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct leads

Deepseek Coder v2: 38.1 (#183), Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 42.5 (#98)

BenchmarkDeepseek Coder v2Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct
LMArena Coding12511440
BigCodeBench Instruct48.2%—
BigCodeBench Complete59.7%—
HumanEval+82.3%—
MBPP+75.1%—

Reasoning Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct leads

Deepseek Coder v2: 23.6 (#176), Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 31.1 (#81)

BenchmarkDeepseek Coder v2Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct
LMArena Hard Prompts12071428
Kagi LLM Benchmark—66.7%
WinoGrande83.7%—

Math Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct leads

Deepseek Coder v2: 34.9 (#190), Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 38.8 (#126)

BenchmarkDeepseek Coder v2Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct
LMArena Math12411440
Omni-MATH—46.7%
GSM8K94.5%—

Knowledge Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct leads

Deepseek Coder v2: 32.3 (#212), Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 41.8 (#106)

BenchmarkDeepseek Coder v2Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct
LMArena Expert11811417
MMLU-Pro—78.6%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—9.3%
GPQA (HELM)—63%
ARC (AI2) Challenge64.3%—

Multilingual Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct leads

Deepseek Coder v2: 36.3 (#240), Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 52.1 (#93)

BenchmarkDeepseek Coder v2Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct
LMArena Non-English11821407
LMArena Chinese12011460
LMArena French11851413
LMArena German11641417
LMArena Japanese11261395
LMArena Korean11041364
LMArena Russian11881404
LMArena Spanish11531435

Instruction Following Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct leads

Deepseek Coder v2: 61.7 (#242), Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 70.8 (#159)

BenchmarkDeepseek Coder v2Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct
LMArena Instruction Following11801389
IFEval—81%

Long Context Too close to call

Deepseek Coder v2: 37.0 (#224), Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 37.0 (#223)

BenchmarkDeepseek Coder v2Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct
LMArena Longer Query12191403
Fiction.LiveBench—55.6%

Writing & Preference Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct leads

Deepseek Coder v2: 38.2 (#253), Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 58.0 (#121)

BenchmarkDeepseek Coder v2Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct
LMArena Text11911417
LMArena Creative Writing11201334
LMArena Multi-Turn11771416
WildBench—80.7%

Frequently asked questions

Is Deepseek Coder v2 better than Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct?

Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 43.0 to 35.9 on the Noometry Index.

Is Deepseek Coder v2 or Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct better for coding?

Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct scores higher on coding benchmarks: 42.5 versus 38.1 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Deepseek Coder v2 and Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct share?

17 benchmarks have published results for both models. Deepseek Coder v2 has 24 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct has 25.

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