# DeepSeek Coder 1.3B vs Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct

> Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct has enough public results to be ranked (#324); DeepSeek Coder 1.3B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/deepseek-coder-1-3b-vs-phi-3-mini-4k-instruct
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 5

## Summary

- They share 5 benchmarks with published results for both. DeepSeek Coder 1.3B scores higher in 1 category and Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct in 0 categories; one gap is clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in coding, where DeepSeek Coder 1.3B leads 30.7 to 26.1.

## Snapshot

| | DeepSeek Coder 1.3B | Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | DeepSeek | Microsoft |
| Noometry Index | 34.5 | 27.4 |
| Rank | — | 324 |
| Context | — | — |
| Input $/M | — | — |
| Output $/M | — | — |
| Weights | Open | Open |

## Coding

- DeepSeek Coder 1.3B: 30.7 (#282)
- Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 26.1 (#319)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 1.3B | Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| HumanEval+ | 60.4% | 59.1% |
| MBPP+ | 54.8% | 54.2% |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 22.8% | — |
| LiveBench Coding | — | 15.5% |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1093 |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 29.6% | — |

## Reasoning

- DeepSeek Coder 1.3B: —
- Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 13.6 (#326)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 1.3B | Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| WinoGrande | 53.3% | 70.8% |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 0% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | — | 26.8% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1072 |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | — | 34.7% |
| Adversarial NLI | — | 52.8% |
| BIG-Bench Hard | — | 71.7% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 62.18 | — |
| HellaSwag | — | 76.7% |
| LiveBench | — | 22.4% |

## Math

- DeepSeek Coder 1.3B: —
- Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 24.5 (#258)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 1.3B | Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Math | — | 15.7% |
| LMArena Math | — | 1111 |
| GSM8K | 4.4% | — |

## Knowledge

- DeepSeek Coder 1.3B: —
- Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 27.9 (#241)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 1.3B | Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 25.4% | 84.9% |
| MMLU | 25.8% | 68.8% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1045 |
| OpenBookQA | — | 88% |
| TriviaQA | — | 64% |

## Multilingual

- DeepSeek Coder 1.3B: —
- Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 26.5 (#275)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 1.3B | Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1021 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1021 |
| LMArena French | — | 1075 |
| LMArena German | — | 1044 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 935 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 905 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1022 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1084 |

## Instruction Following

- DeepSeek Coder 1.3B: —
- Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 48.0 (#298)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 1.3B | Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Instruction Following | — | 39.1% |
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1053 |

## Long Context

- DeepSeek Coder 1.3B: —
- Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 31.7 (#271)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 1.3B | Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1044 |

## Writing & Preference

- DeepSeek Coder 1.3B: —
- Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 27.7 (#295)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 1.3B | Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1073 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1037 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1018 |
| LiveBench Language | — | 9.2% |

## FAQ

### Is DeepSeek Coder 1.3B better than Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct?

Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct has enough public results to be ranked (#324); DeepSeek Coder 1.3B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

### Is DeepSeek Coder 1.3B or Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct better for coding?

DeepSeek Coder 1.3B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 30.7 versus 26.1 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do DeepSeek Coder 1.3B and Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct share?

5 benchmarks have published results for both models. DeepSeek Coder 1.3B has 9 scored results on Noometry and Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct has 35.