Model comparison

DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp vs Qwen3-4B

DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp is the stronger model overall, scoring 44.3 to 31.9 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified October 11, 2026. 6 shared benchmarks.

DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp

DeepSeek

44.3

Rank #78 Confirmed

Qwen3-4B

Alibaba (Qwen)

31.9

Rank #264 Confirmed

Summary

They share 6 benchmarks with published results for both. DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp scores higher in 4 categories and Qwen3-4B in 0 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
The widest gap is in knowledge, where DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp leads 51.7 to 33.0.
The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 87.8% for DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp and 52.2% for Qwen3-4B.

Side by side

DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp and Qwen3-4B specifications
	DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp	Qwen3-4B
Provider	DeepSeek	Alibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index	44.3	31.9
Released	2025-09-29	2025-04-29
Weights	Open	Open
Context window	164K	—
Max output	66K	—
Input $ / M tokens	$0.26	—
Output $ / M tokens	$0.38	—
Results tracked	49	6

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp: 46.5 (#65), Qwen3-4B: —

Coding benchmarks
Benchmark	DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp	Qwen3-4B
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)	70%	—
Aider Polyglot	74.2%	—
LMArena WebDev	1362	—
SWE-bench Multilingual	59%	—
SciCode	38.9%	—
WeirdML	39.5%	—
LMArena Coding	1454	—

Agentic & Tool Use DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp leads

DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp: 32.7 (#59), Qwen3-4B: 27.6 (#100)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
Benchmark	DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp	Qwen3-4B
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard	56.7%	35.7%
Terminal-Bench	39.6%	—
APEX-Agents	21.3%	—
TheAgentCompany	42.9%	—
Vending-Bench 2	1,034	—

Reasoning DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp leads

DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp: 22.1 (#208), Qwen3-4B: 19.2 (#268)

Reasoning benchmarks
Benchmark	DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp	Qwen3-4B
Chess Puzzles	14%	4%
ARC-AGI-2	4%	—
Kagi LLM Benchmark	52.2%	—
NYT Connections (extended)	36.7%	—
ARC-AGI-1	57%	—
CritPt	2.9%	—
Thematic Generalization	65%	—
LMArena Hard Prompts	1434	—
DTBench	87.7%	—
LMCA	29.1%	—
Epoch Capabilities Index	146.27	—

Math DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp leads

DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp: 41.7 (#87), Qwen3-4B: 29.7 (#240)

Math benchmarks
Benchmark	DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp	Qwen3-4B
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions	57.7%	38.5%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025	87.8%	52.2%
ProofBench	8%	—
LMArena Math	1435	—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)	22.1%	—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)	2.1%	—

Knowledge DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp leads

DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp: 51.7 (#66), Qwen3-4B: 33.0 (#208)

Knowledge benchmarks
Benchmark	DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp	Qwen3-4B
GPQA Diamond	83.4%	52.3%
Vectara Hallucination Rate	5.3%	5.7%
LMArena Expert	1436	—

Multilingual Not comparable

DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp: 52.2 (#90), Qwen3-4B: —

Multilingual benchmarks
Benchmark	DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp	Qwen3-4B
LMArena Non-English	1409	—
LMArena Chinese	1461	—
LMArena French	1433	—
LMArena German	1440	—
LMArena Japanese	1374	—
LMArena Korean	1371	—
LMArena Russian	1424	—
LMArena Spanish	1440	—

Instruction Following Not comparable

DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp: 74.5 (#93), Qwen3-4B: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
Benchmark	DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp	Qwen3-4B
LMArena Instruction Following	1413	—

Long Context Not comparable

DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp: 47.6 (#16), Qwen3-4B: —

Long Context benchmarks
Benchmark	DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp	Qwen3-4B
Fiction.LiveBench	83.3%	—
CL-bench	13.2%	—
CL-bench Life	9.5%	—
LMArena Longer Query	1428	—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp: 62.4 (#77), Qwen3-4B: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
Benchmark	DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp	Qwen3-4B
LMArena Text	1425	—
LMArena Creative Writing	1403	—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing	1515	—
LMArena Multi-Turn	1427	—

Frequently asked questions

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