# DeepSeek Coder 1.3B vs Phi-4

> Phi-4 has enough public results to be ranked (#279); 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-4
- Last updated: 2026-10-11
- Shared benchmarks: 4

## Summary

- They share 4 benchmarks with published results for both. DeepSeek Coder 1.3B scores higher in 0 categories and Phi-4 in 1 category; one gap is clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in coding, where Phi-4 leads 34.4 to 31.2.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is BigCodeBench Complete: 29.6% for DeepSeek Coder 1.3B and 55.4% for Phi-4.

## Snapshot

| | DeepSeek Coder 1.3B | Phi-4 |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | DeepSeek | Microsoft |
| Noometry Index | 35.0 | 31.2 |
| Rank | — | 279 |
| Context | — | 128K |
| Input $/M | — | $0.07 |
| Output $/M | — | $0.14 |
| Weights | Open | Open |

## Coding

- DeepSeek Coder 1.3B: 31.2 (#287)
- Phi-4: 34.4 (#239)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 1.3B | Phi-4 |
|---|---|---|
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 22.8% | 45.5% |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 29.6% | 55.4% |
| LiveBench Coding | — | 30.7% |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1231 |
| HumanEval+ | 60.4% | — |
| MBPP+ | 54.8% | — |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- DeepSeek Coder 1.3B: —
- Phi-4: 22.8 (#128)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 1.3B | Phi-4 |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | — | 28.8% |
| BALROG | — | 11.6% |

## Reasoning

- DeepSeek Coder 1.3B: —
- Phi-4: 17.7 (#291)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 1.3B | Phi-4 |
|---|---|---|
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 63.6 | 130.42 |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 1% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | — | 47.8% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1220 |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | — | 45.2% |
| LiveBench | — | 41.6% |
| WinoGrande | 53.3% | — |

## Math

- DeepSeek Coder 1.3B: —
- Phi-4: 20.8 (#285)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 1.3B | Phi-4 |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 13.8% |
| LiveBench Math | — | 42% |
| LMArena Math | — | 1246 |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 64.9% |
| GSM8K | 4.4% | — |

## Knowledge

- DeepSeek Coder 1.3B: —
- Phi-4: 32.6 (#209)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 1.3B | Phi-4 |
|---|---|---|
| MMLU | 25.8% | 84.8% |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 56.1% |
| Confabulations | — | 29.4% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 3.7% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1203 |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 25.4% | — |

## Multilingual

- DeepSeek Coder 1.3B: —
- Phi-4: 37.2 (#237)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 1.3B | Phi-4 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1197 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1212 |
| LMArena French | — | 1224 |
| LMArena German | — | 1222 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1158 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1151 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1209 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1234 |

## Instruction Following

- DeepSeek Coder 1.3B: —
- Phi-4: 60.4 (#251)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 1.3B | Phi-4 |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Instruction Following | — | 58.4% |
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1201 |

## Long Context

- DeepSeek Coder 1.3B: —
- Phi-4: 36.9 (#226)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 1.3B | Phi-4 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1217 |

## Writing & Preference

- DeepSeek Coder 1.3B: —
- Phi-4: 40.5 (#244)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 1.3B | Phi-4 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1217 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1182 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | — | 62.6% |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1206 |
| LiveBench Language | — | 25.6% |

## FAQ

### Is DeepSeek Coder 1.3B better than Phi-4?

Phi-4 has enough public results to be ranked (#279); DeepSeek Coder 1.3B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

### Is DeepSeek Coder 1.3B or Phi-4 better for coding?

Phi-4 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 34.4 versus 31.2 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do DeepSeek Coder 1.3B and Phi-4 share?

4 benchmarks have published results for both models. DeepSeek Coder 1.3B has 9 scored results on Noometry and Phi-4 has 37.