# DeepSeek Coder 1.3B vs Gemma 3 12B

> Gemma 3 12B has enough public results to be ranked (#262); DeepSeek Coder 1.3B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

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

## Summary

- They share 1 benchmark with published results for both. DeepSeek Coder 1.3B scores higher in 0 categories and Gemma 3 12B in 1 category, but none of those gaps is larger than the uncertainty.

## Snapshot

| | DeepSeek Coder 1.3B | Gemma 3 12B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | DeepSeek | Google |
| Noometry Index | 35.0 | 32.1 |
| Rank | — | 262 |
| Context | — | 131K |
| Input $/M | — | $0.05 |
| Output $/M | — | $0.15 |
| Weights | Open | Open |

## Coding

- DeepSeek Coder 1.3B: 31.2 (#287)
- Gemma 3 12B: 31.7 (#280)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 1.3B | Gemma 3 12B |
|---|---|---|
| SciCode | — | 17.4% |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 22.8% | — |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1281 |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 29.6% | — |
| HumanEval+ | 60.4% | — |
| MBPP+ | 54.8% | — |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- DeepSeek Coder 1.3B: —
- Gemma 3 12B: 25.5 (#108)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 1.3B | Gemma 3 12B |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | — | 30.4% |

## Reasoning

- DeepSeek Coder 1.3B: —
- Gemma 3 12B: 15.7 (#313)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 1.3B | Gemma 3 12B |
|---|---|---|
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 63.6 | 123.5 |
| CritPt | — | 0% |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 0% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1309 |
| DTBench | — | 48.8% |
| LMCA | — | 4.5% |
| WinoGrande | 53.3% | — |

## Math

- DeepSeek Coder 1.3B: —
- Gemma 3 12B: 22.3 (#279)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 1.3B | Gemma 3 12B |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 16.7% |
| LMArena Math | — | 1307 |
| GSM8K | 4.4% | — |

## Knowledge

- DeepSeek Coder 1.3B: —
- Gemma 3 12B: 26.5 (#257)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 1.3B | Gemma 3 12B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | — | 39.5% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 4.4% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1248 |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 25.4% | — |
| MMLU | 25.8% | — |

## Multimodal

- DeepSeek Coder 1.3B: —
- Gemma 3 12B: —

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 1.3B | Gemma 3 12B |
|---|---|---|
| MindCube | — | 46.7% |

## Multilingual

- DeepSeek Coder 1.3B: —
- Gemma 3 12B: 45.7 (#165)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 1.3B | Gemma 3 12B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1318 |
| LMArena German | — | 1370 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1335 |

## Instruction Following

- DeepSeek Coder 1.3B: —
- Gemma 3 12B: 68.6 (#186)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 1.3B | Gemma 3 12B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1299 |

## Long Context

- DeepSeek Coder 1.3B: —
- Gemma 3 12B: 40.0 (#162)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 1.3B | Gemma 3 12B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1317 |

## Writing & Preference

- DeepSeek Coder 1.3B: —
- Gemma 3 12B: 47.5 (#209)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 1.3B | Gemma 3 12B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1334 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1331 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 1126 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1334 |

## FAQ

### Is DeepSeek Coder 1.3B better than Gemma 3 12B?

Gemma 3 12B has enough public results to be ranked (#262); DeepSeek Coder 1.3B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

### Is DeepSeek Coder 1.3B or Gemma 3 12B better for coding?

They score almost the same on coding (31.2 vs 31.7); test both on your own repository before choosing.

### How many benchmarks do DeepSeek Coder 1.3B and Gemma 3 12B share?

1 benchmark has published results for both models. DeepSeek Coder 1.3B has 9 scored results on Noometry and Gemma 3 12B has 24.