# DeepSeek Coder 1.3B vs Nemotron 3.5 Lightning

> Nemotron 3.5 Lightning has enough public results to be ranked (#156); DeepSeek Coder 1.3B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/deepseek-coder-1-3b-vs-nemotron-3-5-lightning
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 0

## Summary

- The widest gap is in coding, where Nemotron 3.5 Lightning leads 39.6 to 30.7.

## Snapshot

| | DeepSeek Coder 1.3B | Nemotron 3.5 Lightning |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | DeepSeek | NVIDIA |
| Noometry Index | 34.5 | 39.3 |
| Rank | — | 156 |
| Context | — | 262K |
| Input $/M | — | $0.06 |
| Output $/M | — | $0.16 |
| Weights | Open | Open |

## Coding

- DeepSeek Coder 1.3B: 30.7 (#282)
- Nemotron 3.5 Lightning: 39.6 (#143)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 1.3B | Nemotron 3.5 Lightning |
|---|---|---|
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 22.8% | — |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1370 |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 29.6% | — |
| HumanEval+ | 60.4% | — |
| MBPP+ | 54.8% | — |

## Reasoning

- DeepSeek Coder 1.3B: —
- Nemotron 3.5 Lightning: 25.7 (#128)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 1.3B | Nemotron 3.5 Lightning |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1335 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 62.18 | — |
| WinoGrande | 53.3% | — |

## Math

- DeepSeek Coder 1.3B: —
- Nemotron 3.5 Lightning: 34.7 (#156)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 1.3B | Nemotron 3.5 Lightning |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | — | 1355 |
| GSM8K | 4.4% | — |

## Knowledge

- DeepSeek Coder 1.3B: —
- Nemotron 3.5 Lightning: 36.9 (#154)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 1.3B | Nemotron 3.5 Lightning |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | — | 1354 |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 25.4% | — |
| MMLU | 25.8% | — |

## Multilingual

- DeepSeek Coder 1.3B: —
- Nemotron 3.5 Lightning: 44.0 (#175)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 1.3B | Nemotron 3.5 Lightning |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1292 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1356 |
| LMArena French | — | 1369 |
| LMArena German | — | 1280 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1213 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1233 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1257 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1321 |

## Instruction Following

- DeepSeek Coder 1.3B: —
- Nemotron 3.5 Lightning: 69.8 (#166)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 1.3B | Nemotron 3.5 Lightning |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1317 |

## Long Context

- DeepSeek Coder 1.3B: —
- Nemotron 3.5 Lightning: 39.9 (#160)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 1.3B | Nemotron 3.5 Lightning |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1312 |

## Writing & Preference

- DeepSeek Coder 1.3B: —
- Nemotron 3.5 Lightning: 48.5 (#198)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 1.3B | Nemotron 3.5 Lightning |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1324 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1254 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 1280 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1327 |

## FAQ

### Is DeepSeek Coder 1.3B better than Nemotron 3.5 Lightning?

Nemotron 3.5 Lightning has enough public results to be ranked (#156); DeepSeek Coder 1.3B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

### Is DeepSeek Coder 1.3B or Nemotron 3.5 Lightning better for coding?

Nemotron 3.5 Lightning scores higher on coding benchmarks: 39.6 versus 30.7 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do DeepSeek Coder 1.3B and Nemotron 3.5 Lightning share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. DeepSeek Coder 1.3B has 9 scored results on Noometry and Nemotron 3.5 Lightning has 18.