Model comparison
DeepSeek-V3 vs Qwen2.5-Max
Qwen2.5-Max is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.7 to 39.5 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 27 shared benchmarks.
DeepSeek
Alibaba (Qwen)Summary
- They share 27 benchmarks with published results for both. DeepSeek-V3 scores higher in 5 categories and Qwen2.5-Max in 3 categories; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in long context, where Qwen2.5-Max leads 41.4 to 34.0.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is LiveBench Math: 73.5% for DeepSeek-V3 and 58.4% for Qwen2.5-Max.
- DeepSeek-V3 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| DeepSeek-V3 | Qwen2.5-Max | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | DeepSeek | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 39.5 | 40.7 |
| Released | 2024-12-26 | 2025-01-25 |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |
| Context window | 164K | — |
| Max output | 164K | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.24 | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | $0.90 | — |
| Results tracked | 60 | 27 |
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Category by category
Coding Too close to call
DeepSeek-V3: 42.3 (#106), Qwen2.5-Max: 41.8 (#117)
| Benchmark | DeepSeek-V3 | Qwen2.5-Max |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Coding | 70.9% | 64.4% |
| LMArena Coding | 1368 | 1359 |
| Aider Polyglot | 55.1% | — |
| SciCode | 35.8% | — |
| WeirdML | 36.1% | — |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 50% | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 62.2% | — |
| HumanEval+ | 86.6% | — |
| MBPP+ | 73% | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
DeepSeek-V3: —, Qwen2.5-Max: —
| Benchmark | DeepSeek-V3 | Qwen2.5-Max |
|---|---|---|
| METR Time Horizons | 49.6% | — |
Reasoning Qwen2.5-Max leads
DeepSeek-V3: 20.5 (#236), Qwen2.5-Max: 25.6 (#147)
| Benchmark | DeepSeek-V3 | Qwen2.5-Max |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Reasoning | 65.8% | 51.4% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1365 | 1360 |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 60.9% | 67.9% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 135.94 | 132.53 |
| LiveBench | 66.9% | 62.3% |
| SimpleBench | 27.2% | — |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 52.3% | — |
| CritPt | 0% | — |
| DTBench | 64.8% | — |
| LMCA | 15.5% | — |
| BIG-Bench Hard | 87.5% | — |
| ForecastBench | 59.1 | — |
| HellaSwag | 88.9% | — |
| PIQA | 84.7% | — |
| WinoGrande | 85.2% | — |
Math Qwen2.5-Max leads
DeepSeek-V3: 32.1 (#219), Qwen2.5-Max: 36.9 (#162)
| Benchmark | DeepSeek-V3 | Qwen2.5-Max |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Math | 73.5% | 58.4% |
| LMArena Math | 1373 | 1369 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 37.8% | — |
| Omni-MATH | 40.3% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 75.5% | — |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 1.7% | — |
Knowledge DeepSeek-V3 leads
DeepSeek-V3: 37.5 (#155), Qwen2.5-Max: 35.3 (#186)
| Benchmark | DeepSeek-V3 | Qwen2.5-Max |
|---|---|---|
| Confabulations | 26.1% | 21.8% |
| LMArena Expert | 1351 | 1337 |
| GPQA Diamond | 67.6% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | 72.3% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 6.1% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 53.8% | — |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 95.3% | — |
| MMLU | 87.2% | — |
| TriviaQA | 82.9% | — |
Multilingual Too close to call
DeepSeek-V3: 48.5 (#143), Qwen2.5-Max: 48.1 (#146)
| Benchmark | DeepSeek-V3 | Qwen2.5-Max |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1358 | 1352 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1391 | 1382 |
| LMArena French | 1385 | 1396 |
| LMArena German | 1374 | 1350 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1333 | 1300 |
| LMArena Korean | 1319 | 1304 |
| LMArena Russian | 1373 | 1353 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1358 | 1377 |
Instruction Following DeepSeek-V3 leads
DeepSeek-V3: 72.8 (#130), Qwen2.5-Max: 71.3 (#152)
| Benchmark | DeepSeek-V3 | Qwen2.5-Max |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 81.5% | 75.3% |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1345 | 1335 |
| IFEval | 83.2% | — |
Long Context Qwen2.5-Max leads
DeepSeek-V3: 34.0 (#253), Qwen2.5-Max: 41.4 (#142)
| Benchmark | DeepSeek-V3 | Qwen2.5-Max |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1352 | 1358 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | 50% | — |
Writing & Preference DeepSeek-V3 leads
DeepSeek-V3: 57.4 (#130), Qwen2.5-Max: 55.4 (#146)
| Benchmark | DeepSeek-V3 | Qwen2.5-Max |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1375 | 1367 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1364 | 1339 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 77% | 72.9% |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1389 | 1364 |
| LiveBench Language | 49.1% | 56.3% |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1472 | — |
| WildBench | 83% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is DeepSeek-V3 better than Qwen2.5-Max?
Qwen2.5-Max is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.7 to 39.5 on the Noometry Index.
Is DeepSeek-V3 or Qwen2.5-Max better for coding?
They score almost the same on coding (42.3 vs 41.8); test both on your own repository before choosing.
How many benchmarks do DeepSeek-V3 and Qwen2.5-Max share?
27 benchmarks have published results for both models. DeepSeek-V3 has 60 scored results on Noometry and Qwen2.5-Max has 27.