Model comparison

DeepSeek-V3.1-Terminus vs Qwen3-4B

DeepSeek-V3.1-Terminus is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.6 to 31.5 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 0 shared benchmarks.

DeepSeek-V3.1-Terminus DeepSeek

42.6

Rank #96 Confirmed

Qwen3-4B Alibaba (Qwen)

31.5

Rank #261 Confirmed

Summary

  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where DeepSeek-V3.1-Terminus leads 25.7 to 18.5.

Side by side

DeepSeek-V3.1-Terminus and Qwen3-4B specifications
DeepSeek-V3.1-TerminusQwen3-4B
ProviderDeepSeekAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index42.631.5
Released2025-09-222025-04-29
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window164K—
Max output66K—
Input $ / M tokens$0.30—
Output $ / M tokens$1—
Results tracked166

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

DeepSeek-V3.1-Terminus: 41.5 (#114), Qwen3-4B: —

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek-V3.1-TerminusQwen3-4B
SciCode40.6%—
LMArena Coding1426—
ALE-Bench745.17—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

DeepSeek-V3.1-Terminus: —, Qwen3-4B: 27.3 (#94)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek-V3.1-TerminusQwen3-4B
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—35.7%

Reasoning DeepSeek-V3.1-Terminus leads

DeepSeek-V3.1-Terminus: 25.7 (#126), Qwen3-4B: 18.5 (#264)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek-V3.1-TerminusQwen3-4B
Kagi LLM Benchmark57.4%—
CritPt1.7%—
Chess Puzzles—4%
LMArena Hard Prompts1427—
DTBench81.3%—
LMCA28.6%—

Math DeepSeek-V3.1-Terminus leads

DeepSeek-V3.1-Terminus: 35.7 (#138), Qwen3-4B: 28.5 (#228)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek-V3.1-TerminusQwen3-4B
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions—38.5%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—52.2%
LMArena Math1402—

Knowledge Not comparable

DeepSeek-V3.1-Terminus: —, Qwen3-4B: 33.0 (#198)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek-V3.1-TerminusQwen3-4B
GPQA Diamond—52.3%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—5.7%

Multilingual Not comparable

DeepSeek-V3.1-Terminus: 52.3 (#87), Qwen3-4B: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek-V3.1-TerminusQwen3-4B
LMArena Non-English1407—
LMArena Russian1434—

Instruction Following Not comparable

DeepSeek-V3.1-Terminus: 74.4 (#96), Qwen3-4B: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek-V3.1-TerminusQwen3-4B
LMArena Instruction Following1406—

Long Context Not comparable

DeepSeek-V3.1-Terminus: 43.5 (#88), Qwen3-4B: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek-V3.1-TerminusQwen3-4B
LMArena Longer Query1426—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

DeepSeek-V3.1-Terminus: 61.3 (#87), Qwen3-4B: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek-V3.1-TerminusQwen3-4B
LMArena Text1420—
LMArena Creative Writing1404—
LMArena Multi-Turn1411—

Frequently asked questions

Is DeepSeek-V3.1-Terminus better than Qwen3-4B?

DeepSeek-V3.1-Terminus is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.6 to 31.5 on the Noometry Index.

How many benchmarks do DeepSeek-V3.1-Terminus and Qwen3-4B share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. DeepSeek-V3.1-Terminus has 16 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3-4B has 6.

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