Model comparison

DeepSeek-V2.5 (Sep 2024) vs Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct

DeepSeek-V2.5 (Sep 2024) is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.0 to 30.3 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 19 shared benchmarks.

DeepSeek-V2.5 (Sep 2024) DeepSeek

37.0

Rank #197 Confirmed

Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct Meta

30.3

Rank #283 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 19 benchmarks with published results for both. DeepSeek-V2.5 (Sep 2024) scores higher in 7 categories and Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct in 1 category; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where DeepSeek-V2.5 (Sep 2024) leads 33.3 to 14.3.

Side by side

DeepSeek-V2.5 (Sep 2024) and Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct specifications
DeepSeek-V2.5 (Sep 2024)Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct
ProviderDeepSeekMeta
Noometry Index37.030.3
Released2024-09-062024-12-06
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window—128K
Max output—4K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.10
Output $ / M tokens—$0.32
Results tracked2243

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Category by category

Coding Too close to call

DeepSeek-V2.5 (Sep 2024): 31.3 (#274), Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct: 30.6 (#284)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek-V2.5 (Sep 2024)Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct
BigCodeBench Instruct48.6%46.9%
LMArena Coding13101268
BigCodeBench Complete53.2%57.5%
Aider Polyglot17.8%—
SciCode—26%
WeirdML—14.4%
LiveBench Coding—36.6%
HumanEval+83.5%—
MBPP+74.1%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

DeepSeek-V2.5 (Sep 2024): —, Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct: 25.6 (#100)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek-V2.5 (Sep 2024)Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—31.9%
BALROG—23%

Reasoning DeepSeek-V2.5 (Sep 2024) leads

DeepSeek-V2.5 (Sep 2024): 24.5 (#145), Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct: 13.7 (#325)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek-V2.5 (Sep 2024)Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct
LMArena Hard Prompts12891257
SimpleBench—19.9%
CritPt—0%
LiveBench Reasoning—50.8%
DTBench—59.5%
LiveBench Data Analysis—49.5%
LMCA—17.5%
Epoch Capabilities Index—127.32
ForecastBench—58.6
LiveBench—50.2%

Math DeepSeek-V2.5 (Sep 2024) leads

DeepSeek-V2.5 (Sep 2024): 33.3 (#177), Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct: 14.3 (#292)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek-V2.5 (Sep 2024)Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct
LMArena Math12891268
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—5.1%
LiveBench Math—42.2%
MATH Level 5—41.6%

Knowledge DeepSeek-V2.5 (Sep 2024) leads

DeepSeek-V2.5 (Sep 2024): 34.2 (#190), Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct: 30.5 (#220)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek-V2.5 (Sep 2024)Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct
LMArena Expert12661225
GPQA Diamond—47.4%
Confabulations—22.8%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—4.1%
MMLU—86.3%

Multilingual DeepSeek-V2.5 (Sep 2024) leads

DeepSeek-V2.5 (Sep 2024): 42.7 (#188), Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct: 40.1 (#215)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek-V2.5 (Sep 2024)Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct
LMArena Non-English12731236
LMArena Chinese13171217
LMArena French12881280
LMArena German12581251
LMArena Japanese12281149
LMArena Korean12091142
LMArena Russian12891252
LMArena Spanish12481269

Instruction Following Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct leads

DeepSeek-V2.5 (Sep 2024): 67.7 (#189), Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct: 71.3 (#152)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek-V2.5 (Sep 2024)Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct
LMArena Instruction Following12801242
LiveBench Instruction Following—82.7%

Long Context DeepSeek-V2.5 (Sep 2024) leads

DeepSeek-V2.5 (Sep 2024): 39.5 (#169), Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct: 26.4 (#290)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek-V2.5 (Sep 2024)Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct
LMArena Longer Query13011256
Fiction.LiveBench—33.3%

Writing & Preference DeepSeek-V2.5 (Sep 2024) leads

DeepSeek-V2.5 (Sep 2024): 50.0 (#182), Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct: 47.8 (#203)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek-V2.5 (Sep 2024)Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct
LMArena Text12941274
LMArena Creative Writing12851250
LMArena Multi-Turn12971279
LiveBench Language—39.2%

Frequently asked questions

Is DeepSeek-V2.5 (Sep 2024) better than Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct?

DeepSeek-V2.5 (Sep 2024) is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.0 to 30.3 on the Noometry Index.

Is DeepSeek-V2.5 (Sep 2024) or Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct better for coding?

They score almost the same on coding (31.3 vs 30.6); test both on your own repository before choosing.

How many benchmarks do DeepSeek-V2.5 (Sep 2024) and Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct share?

19 benchmarks have published results for both models. DeepSeek-V2.5 (Sep 2024) has 22 scored results on Noometry and Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct has 43.

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