# DeepSeek Coder 1.3B vs Llama 3.2 3B

> Llama 3.2 3B has enough public results to be ranked (#321); DeepSeek Coder 1.3B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

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

## Summary

- They share 2 benchmarks with published results for both. DeepSeek Coder 1.3B scores higher in 1 category and Llama 3.2 3B in 0 categories; one gap is clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in coding, where DeepSeek Coder 1.3B leads 31.2 to 27.6.

## Snapshot

| | DeepSeek Coder 1.3B | Llama 3.2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | DeepSeek | Meta |
| Noometry Index | 35.0 | 28.9 |
| Rank | — | 321 |
| Context | — | 131K |
| Input $/M | — | $0.05 |
| Output $/M | — | $0.33 |
| Weights | Open | Open |

## Coding

- DeepSeek Coder 1.3B: 31.2 (#287)
- Llama 3.2 3B: 27.6 (#319)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 1.3B | Llama 3.2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 22.8% | 23.4% |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 29.6% | 28.3% |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1098 |
| HumanEval+ | 60.4% | — |
| MBPP+ | 54.8% | — |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- DeepSeek Coder 1.3B: —
- Llama 3.2 3B: 20.1 (#143)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 1.3B | Llama 3.2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | — | 21.9% |
| BALROG | — | 10.1% |

## Reasoning

- DeepSeek Coder 1.3B: —
- Llama 3.2 3B: 21.0 (#228)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 1.3B | Llama 3.2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1095 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 63.6 | — |
| WinoGrande | 53.3% | — |

## Math

- DeepSeek Coder 1.3B: —
- Llama 3.2 3B: 32.4 (#214)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 1.3B | Llama 3.2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | — | 1126 |
| GSM8K | 4.4% | — |

## Knowledge

- DeepSeek Coder 1.3B: —
- Llama 3.2 3B: 29.7 (#235)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 1.3B | Llama 3.2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | — | 1090 |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 25.4% | — |
| MMLU | 25.8% | — |

## Multilingual

- DeepSeek Coder 1.3B: —
- Llama 3.2 3B: 26.2 (#281)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 1.3B | Llama 3.2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1019 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1017 |
| LMArena German | — | 1056 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 949 |

## Instruction Following

- DeepSeek Coder 1.3B: —
- Llama 3.2 3B: 56.0 (#275)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 1.3B | Llama 3.2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1089 |

## Long Context

- DeepSeek Coder 1.3B: —
- Llama 3.2 3B: 33.4 (#261)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 1.3B | Llama 3.2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1100 |

## Writing & Preference

- DeepSeek Coder 1.3B: —
- Llama 3.2 3B: 24.7 (#307)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 1.3B | Llama 3.2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1110 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1094 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 595 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1105 |

## FAQ

### Is DeepSeek Coder 1.3B better than Llama 3.2 3B?

Llama 3.2 3B has enough public results to be ranked (#321); DeepSeek Coder 1.3B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

### Is DeepSeek Coder 1.3B or Llama 3.2 3B better for coding?

DeepSeek Coder 1.3B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 31.2 versus 27.6 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do DeepSeek Coder 1.3B and Llama 3.2 3B share?

2 benchmarks have published results for both models. DeepSeek Coder 1.3B has 9 scored results on Noometry and Llama 3.2 3B has 18.