Model comparison

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

Qwen2.5-Coder-32B has enough public results to be ranked (#239); DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Last verified . 7 shared benchmarks.

Summary

  • They share 7 benchmarks with published results for both. DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) scores higher in 1 category and Qwen2.5-Coder-32B in 0 categories; one gap is clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in coding, where DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) leads 39.8 to 22.4.

Side by side

DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) and Qwen2.5-Coder-32B specifications
DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024)Qwen2.5-Coder-32B
ProviderDeepSeekAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index39.732.9
Released2024-05-072024-09-18
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window—33K
Max output—29K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.66
Output $ / M tokens—$1
Results tracked1031

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Category by category

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

DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024): 39.8 (#141), Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 22.4 (#328)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024)Qwen2.5-Coder-32B
BigCodeBench Instruct48.9%49%
BigCodeBench Complete59.4%58%
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)—9%
Aider Polyglot—16.4%
LiveBench Coding—56.9%
LMArena Coding—1276
HumanEval+—87.2%
MBPP+—77%

Reasoning Not comparable

DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024): —, Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 20.4 (#220)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024)Qwen2.5-Coder-32B
Epoch Capabilities Index124.78119.41
HellaSwag87.1%83%
WinoGrande86.3%80.8%
LiveBench Reasoning—42.1%
LMArena Hard Prompts—1251
LiveBench Data Analysis—49.9%
BIG-Bench Hard78.8%—
LiveBench—46.2%
PIQA83.9%—

Math Not comparable

DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024): —, Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 30.8 (#203)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024)Qwen2.5-Coder-32B
LiveBench Math—46.6%
LMArena Math—1251
GSM8K—93%

Knowledge Not comparable

DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024): —, Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 32.9 (#200)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024)Qwen2.5-Coder-32B
ARC (AI2) Challenge92.2%70.5%
MMLU78.4%79.1%
LMArena Expert—1221
TriviaQA80%—

Multilingual Not comparable

DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024): —, Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 38.0 (#230)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024)Qwen2.5-Coder-32B
LMArena Non-English—1205
LMArena Chinese—1222
LMArena Russian—1228

Instruction Following Not comparable

DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024): —, Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 61.6 (#240)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024)Qwen2.5-Coder-32B
LiveBench Instruction Following—58.7%
LMArena Instruction Following—1223

Long Context Not comparable

DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024): —, Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 37.9 (#204)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024)Qwen2.5-Coder-32B
LMArena Longer Query—1251

Writing & Preference Not comparable

DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024): —, Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 41.8 (#235)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024)Qwen2.5-Coder-32B
LMArena Text—1230
LMArena Creative Writing—1174
LMArena Multi-Turn—1222
LiveBench Language—23.3%

Frequently asked questions

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

Qwen2.5-Coder-32B has enough public results to be ranked (#239); 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-Coder-32B better for coding?

DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) scores higher on coding benchmarks: 39.8 versus 22.4 in the Noometry coding category.

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

7 benchmarks have published results for both models. DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) has 10 scored results on Noometry and Qwen2.5-Coder-32B has 31.

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