# DeepSeek Coder 1.3B vs Mercury

> Mercury has enough public results to be ranked (#192); DeepSeek Coder 1.3B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

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

## Summary

- The widest gap is in coding, where Mercury leads 38.1 to 30.7.
- DeepSeek Coder 1.3B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | DeepSeek Coder 1.3B | Mercury |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | DeepSeek | Inception |
| Noometry Index | 34.5 | 37.3 |
| Rank | — | 192 |
| Context | — | — |
| Input $/M | — | — |
| Output $/M | — | — |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |

## Coding

- DeepSeek Coder 1.3B: 30.7 (#282)
- Mercury: 38.1 (#164)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 1.3B | Mercury |
|---|---|---|
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 22.8% | — |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1323 |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 29.6% | — |
| HumanEval+ | 60.4% | — |
| MBPP+ | 54.8% | — |

## Reasoning

- DeepSeek Coder 1.3B: —
- Mercury: 16.8 (#288)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 1.3B | Mercury |
|---|---|---|
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 21.6% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1284 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 62.18 | — |
| WinoGrande | 53.3% | — |

## Math

- DeepSeek Coder 1.3B: —
- Mercury: —

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 1.3B | Mercury |
|---|---|---|
| GSM8K | 4.4% | — |

## Knowledge

- DeepSeek Coder 1.3B: —
- Mercury: —

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 1.3B | Mercury |
|---|---|---|
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 25.4% | — |
| MMLU | 25.8% | — |

## Multilingual

- DeepSeek Coder 1.3B: —
- Mercury: 41.7 (#201)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 1.3B | Mercury |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1259 |

## Instruction Following

- DeepSeek Coder 1.3B: —
- Mercury: 65.3 (#220)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 1.3B | Mercury |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1238 |

## Long Context

- DeepSeek Coder 1.3B: —
- Mercury: 38.3 (#193)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 1.3B | Mercury |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1264 |

## Writing & Preference

- DeepSeek Coder 1.3B: —
- Mercury: 46.2 (#216)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 1.3B | Mercury |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1282 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1186 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1283 |

## FAQ

### Is DeepSeek Coder 1.3B better than Mercury?

Mercury has enough public results to be ranked (#192); DeepSeek Coder 1.3B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

### Is DeepSeek Coder 1.3B or Mercury better for coding?

Mercury scores higher on coding benchmarks: 38.1 versus 30.7 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do DeepSeek Coder 1.3B and Mercury share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. DeepSeek Coder 1.3B has 9 scored results on Noometry and Mercury has 9.