# DeepSeek Coder 1.3B vs Dolly 2.0-12b

> Dolly 2.0-12b has enough public results to be ranked (#339); DeepSeek Coder 1.3B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/deepseek-coder-1-3b-vs-dolly-2-0-12b
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 4

## Summary

- They share 4 benchmarks with published results for both. DeepSeek Coder 1.3B scores higher in 1 category and Dolly 2.0-12b in 0 categories; one gap is clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in coding, where DeepSeek Coder 1.3B leads 30.7 to 23.0.

## Snapshot

| | DeepSeek Coder 1.3B | Dolly 2.0-12b |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | DeepSeek | Databricks |
| Noometry Index | 34.5 | 24.9 |
| Rank | — | 339 |
| Context | — | — |
| Input $/M | — | — |
| Output $/M | — | — |
| Weights | Open | Open |

## Coding

- DeepSeek Coder 1.3B: 30.7 (#282)
- Dolly 2.0-12b: 23.0 (#327)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 1.3B | Dolly 2.0-12b |
|---|---|---|
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 22.8% | — |
| LMArena Coding | — | 776 |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 29.6% | — |
| HumanEval+ | 60.4% | — |
| MBPP+ | 54.8% | — |

## Reasoning

- DeepSeek Coder 1.3B: —
- Dolly 2.0-12b: 14.6 (#315)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 1.3B | Dolly 2.0-12b |
|---|---|---|
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 62.18 | 88.94 |
| WinoGrande | 53.3% | 61.8% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 804 |
| HellaSwag | — | 70.8% |
| PIQA | — | 75.4% |

## Math

- DeepSeek Coder 1.3B: —
- Dolly 2.0-12b: 25.0 (#250)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 1.3B | Dolly 2.0-12b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | — | 871 |
| GSM8K | 4.4% | — |

## Knowledge

- DeepSeek Coder 1.3B: —
- Dolly 2.0-12b: —

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 1.3B | Dolly 2.0-12b |
|---|---|---|
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 25.4% | 39.6% |
| MMLU | 25.8% | 26.2% |
| BoolQ | — | 56.3% |
| OpenBookQA | — | 39.2% |

## Multilingual

- DeepSeek Coder 1.3B: —
- Dolly 2.0-12b: 17.4 (#291)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 1.3B | Dolly 2.0-12b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 836 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 836 |

## Instruction Following

- DeepSeek Coder 1.3B: —
- Dolly 2.0-12b: 38.9 (#299)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 1.3B | Dolly 2.0-12b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 814 |

## Writing & Preference

- DeepSeek Coder 1.3B: —
- Dolly 2.0-12b: 15.3 (#306)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 1.3B | Dolly 2.0-12b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 851 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 864 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 740 |

## FAQ

### Is DeepSeek Coder 1.3B better than Dolly 2.0-12b?

Dolly 2.0-12b has enough public results to be ranked (#339); DeepSeek Coder 1.3B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

### Is DeepSeek Coder 1.3B or Dolly 2.0-12b better for coding?

DeepSeek Coder 1.3B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 30.7 versus 23.0 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do DeepSeek Coder 1.3B and Dolly 2.0-12b share?

4 benchmarks have published results for both models. DeepSeek Coder 1.3B has 9 scored results on Noometry and Dolly 2.0-12b has 17.