Model comparison

DeepSeek-R1 vs Gemma 7B

DeepSeek-R1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.3 to 30.0 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 14 shared benchmarks.

DeepSeek-R1 DeepSeek

42.3

Rank #115 Confirmed

Gemma 7B Google

30.0

Rank #299 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 14 benchmarks with published results for both. DeepSeek-R1 scores higher in 7 categories and Gemma 7B in 1 category; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where DeepSeek-R1 leads 61.4 to 27.1.
  • Gemma 7B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

DeepSeek-R1 and Gemma 7B specifications
DeepSeek-R1Gemma 7B
ProviderDeepSeekGoogle
Noometry Index42.330.0
Released2025-01-202024-02-21
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window164K—
Max output64K—
Input $ / M tokens$0.50—
Output $ / M tokens$2.15—
Results tracked5227

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Category by category

Coding DeepSeek-R1 leads

DeepSeek-R1: 46.3 (#68), Gemma 7B: 30.5 (#294)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek-R1Gemma 7B
LMArena Coding14271048
Aider Polyglot71.4%—
SciCode35.7%—
WeirdML41.6%—
LiveBench Coding66.7%—
ALE-Bench804.12—
AlgoTune1.7—
HumanEval+—28.7%
MBPP+—43.4%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

DeepSeek-R1: 30.7 (#75), Gemma 7B: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek-R1Gemma 7B
DeepResearch Bench35.1%—
BALROG34.9%—
METR Time Horizons53.8%—

Reasoning Gemma 7B leads

DeepSeek-R1: 18.6 (#278), Gemma 7B: 19.9 (#249)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek-R1Gemma 7B
LMArena Hard Prompts14161042
Epoch Capabilities Index141.29111.99
ARC-AGI-21.3%—
SimpleBench40.8%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark69.4%—
ARC-AGI-121.2%—
CritPt1.1%—
LiveBench Reasoning83.2%—
LiveBench Data Analysis69.8%—
Adversarial NLI—48.7%
BIG-Bench Hard—55.1%
ForecastBench60—
HellaSwag—82.2%
LiveBench71.6%—
PIQA—81.2%
WinoGrande—79%

Math DeepSeek-R1 leads

DeepSeek-R1: 43.8 (#79), Gemma 7B: 31.2 (#228)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek-R1Gemma 7B
LMArena Math14001066
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202566.4%—
Omni-MATH42.4%—
LiveBench Math80.7%—
MATH Level 596.6%—
GSM8K—46.4%

Knowledge DeepSeek-R1 leads

DeepSeek-R1: 44.5 (#87), Gemma 7B: 27.3 (#252)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek-R1Gemma 7B
LMArena Expert13941001
GPQA Diamond76.3%—
MMLU-Pro79.3%—
Confabulations12.7%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate11.3%—
GPQA (HELM)66.6%—
ARC (AI2) Challenge—78.3%
BoolQ—83.2%
MMLU—66.1%
OpenBookQA—78.6%
TriviaQA—72.3%

Multilingual DeepSeek-R1 leads

DeepSeek-R1: 52.4 (#85), Gemma 7B: 25.1 (#287)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek-R1Gemma 7B
LMArena Non-English1412999
LMArena Chinese14421035
LMArena French14171025
LMArena Russian1423993
LMArena German1404—
LMArena Japanese1391—
LMArena Korean1360—
LMArena Spanish1411—

Instruction Following DeepSeek-R1 leads

DeepSeek-R1: 72.0 (#143), Gemma 7B: 51.5 (#295)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek-R1Gemma 7B
LMArena Instruction Following13821017
LiveBench Instruction Following80.5%—
IFEval78.4%—

Long Context DeepSeek-R1 leads

DeepSeek-R1: 45.4 (#36), Gemma 7B: 31.1 (#282)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek-R1Gemma 7B
LMArena Longer Query13911022
Fiction.LiveBench75%—

Writing & Preference DeepSeek-R1 leads

DeepSeek-R1: 61.4 (#88), Gemma 7B: 27.1 (#302)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek-R1Gemma 7B
LMArena Text14281056
LMArena Creative Writing14051024
LMArena Multi-Turn1405963
Short-Story Creative Writing83%—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1500—
WildBench82.8%—
LiveBench Language48.5%—

Frequently asked questions

Is DeepSeek-R1 better than Gemma 7B?

DeepSeek-R1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.3 to 30.0 on the Noometry Index.

Is DeepSeek-R1 or Gemma 7B better for coding?

DeepSeek-R1 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 46.3 versus 30.5 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do DeepSeek-R1 and Gemma 7B share?

14 benchmarks have published results for both models. DeepSeek-R1 has 52 scored results on Noometry and Gemma 7B has 27.

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