Model comparison

DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) vs Qwen2.5 32B Instruct

Qwen2.5 32B Instruct has enough public results to be ranked (#297); DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Last verified . 3 shared benchmarks.

Summary

  • They share 3 benchmarks with published results for both. DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) scores higher in 1 category and Qwen2.5 32B Instruct in 0 categories; one gap is clear of the uncertainty.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is BigCodeBench Complete: 59.4% for DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) and 52.3% for Qwen2.5 32B Instruct.

Side by side

DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) and Qwen2.5 32B Instruct specifications
DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024)Qwen2.5 32B Instruct
ProviderDeepSeekAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index40.330.1
Released2024-05-072024-09
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window—131K
Max output—8K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.70
Output $ / M tokens—$2.80
Results tracked107

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Category by category

Coding DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) leads

DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024): 40.4 (#139), Qwen2.5 32B Instruct: 38.7 (#169)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024)Qwen2.5 32B Instruct
BigCodeBench Instruct48.9%45%
BigCodeBench Complete59.4%52.3%

Reasoning Not comparable

DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024): —, Qwen2.5 32B Instruct: 19.2 (#266)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024)Qwen2.5 32B Instruct
Epoch Capabilities Index124.77128.52
Chess Puzzles—0%
BIG-Bench Hard78.8%—
HellaSwag87.1%—
PIQA83.9%—
WinoGrande86.3%—

Math Not comparable

DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024): —, Qwen2.5 32B Instruct: 16.2 (#296)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024)Qwen2.5 32B Instruct
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—7.4%
MATH Level 5—56.1%

Knowledge Not comparable

DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024): —, Qwen2.5 32B Instruct: 24.9 (#266)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024)Qwen2.5 32B Instruct
GPQA Diamond—46.1%
ARC (AI2) Challenge92.2%—
MMLU78.4%—
TriviaQA80%—

Frequently asked questions

Is DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) better than Qwen2.5 32B Instruct?

Qwen2.5 32B Instruct has enough public results to be ranked (#297); DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Is DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) or Qwen2.5 32B Instruct better for coding?

DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) scores higher on coding benchmarks: 40.4 versus 38.7 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) and Qwen2.5 32B Instruct share?

3 benchmarks have published results for both models. DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) has 10 scored results on Noometry and Qwen2.5 32B Instruct has 7.

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