# DeepSeek Coder 1.3B vs Falcon-180B

> Falcon-180B has enough public results to be ranked (#260); DeepSeek Coder 1.3B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/deepseek-coder-1-3b-vs-falcon-180b
- Last updated: 2026-10-11
- Shared benchmarks: 5

## Summary

- They share 5 benchmarks with published results for both.

## Snapshot

| | DeepSeek Coder 1.3B | Falcon-180B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | DeepSeek | Technology Innovation Institute |
| Noometry Index | 35.0 | 32.2 |
| Rank | — | 260 |
| Context | — | — |
| Input $/M | — | — |
| Output $/M | — | — |
| Weights | Open | Open |

## Coding

- DeepSeek Coder 1.3B: 31.2 (#287)
- Falcon-180B: —

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 1.3B | Falcon-180B |
|---|---|---|
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 22.8% | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 29.6% | — |
| HumanEval+ | 60.4% | — |
| MBPP+ | 54.8% | — |

## Reasoning

- DeepSeek Coder 1.3B: —
- Falcon-180B: 19.1 (#269)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 1.3B | Falcon-180B |
|---|---|---|
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 63.6 | 112.13 |
| WinoGrande | 53.3% | 87.1% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1007 |
| HellaSwag | — | 89% |
| LAMBADA | — | 79.8% |
| PIQA | — | 84.9% |

## Math

- DeepSeek Coder 1.3B: —
- Falcon-180B: —

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 1.3B | Falcon-180B |
|---|---|---|
| GSM8K | 4.4% | 54.4% |

## Knowledge

- DeepSeek Coder 1.3B: —
- Falcon-180B: —

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 1.3B | Falcon-180B |
|---|---|---|
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 25.4% | 67.8% |
| MMLU | 25.8% | 70.6% |
| BoolQ | — | 89% |
| OpenBookQA | — | 64.2% |

## Multilingual

- DeepSeek Coder 1.3B: —
- Falcon-180B: 25.2 (#286)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 1.3B | Falcon-180B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1000 |

## Instruction Following

- DeepSeek Coder 1.3B: —
- Falcon-180B: 53.4 (#286)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 1.3B | Falcon-180B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1047 |

## Writing & Preference

- DeepSeek Coder 1.3B: —
- Falcon-180B: 29.1 (#295)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 1.3B | Falcon-180B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1054 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1089 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1013 |

## FAQ

### Is DeepSeek Coder 1.3B better than Falcon-180B?

Falcon-180B has enough public results to be ranked (#260); DeepSeek Coder 1.3B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

### How many benchmarks do DeepSeek Coder 1.3B and Falcon-180B share?

5 benchmarks have published results for both models. DeepSeek Coder 1.3B has 9 scored results on Noometry and Falcon-180B has 16.