# DeepSeek Coder 1.3B vs Qwen Max

> Qwen Max has enough public results to be ranked (#230); DeepSeek Coder 1.3B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/deepseek-coder-1-3b-vs-qwen-max
- Last updated: 2026-10-11
- Shared benchmarks: 0

## Summary

- DeepSeek Coder 1.3B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | DeepSeek Coder 1.3B | Qwen Max |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | DeepSeek | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 35.0 | 34.7 |
| Rank | — | 230 |
| Context | — | 33K |
| Input $/M | — | $1.60 |
| Output $/M | — | $6.40 |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |

## Coding

- DeepSeek Coder 1.3B: 31.2 (#287)
- Qwen Max: 30.7 (#292)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 1.3B | Qwen Max |
|---|---|---|
| Aider Polyglot | — | 21.8% |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 22.8% | — |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1288 |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 29.6% | — |
| HumanEval+ | 60.4% | — |
| MBPP+ | 54.8% | — |

## Reasoning

- DeepSeek Coder 1.3B: —
- Qwen Max: 25.1 (#151)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 1.3B | Qwen Max |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1269 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 63.6 | — |
| WinoGrande | 53.3% | — |

## Math

- DeepSeek Coder 1.3B: —
- Qwen Max: 22.3 (#276)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 1.3B | Qwen Max |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 16.1% |
| LMArena Math | — | 1275 |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 67.2% |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | — | 1% |
| GSM8K | 4.4% | — |

## Knowledge

- DeepSeek Coder 1.3B: —
- Qwen Max: 30.3 (#228)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 1.3B | Qwen Max |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | — | 56.1% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1248 |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 25.4% | — |
| MMLU | 25.8% | — |

## Multilingual

- DeepSeek Coder 1.3B: —
- Qwen Max: 41.8 (#202)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 1.3B | Qwen Max |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1263 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1254 |
| LMArena French | — | 1330 |
| LMArena German | — | 1254 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1205 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1142 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1274 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1290 |

## Instruction Following

- DeepSeek Coder 1.3B: —
- Qwen Max: 66.5 (#208)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 1.3B | Qwen Max |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1262 |

## Long Context

- DeepSeek Coder 1.3B: —
- Qwen Max: 39.4 (#180)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 1.3B | Qwen Max |
|---|---|---|
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 66.7% |
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1288 |

## Writing & Preference

- DeepSeek Coder 1.3B: —
- Qwen Max: 47.8 (#205)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 1.3B | Qwen Max |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1282 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1248 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1277 |

## FAQ

### Is DeepSeek Coder 1.3B better than Qwen Max?

Qwen Max has enough public results to be ranked (#230); DeepSeek Coder 1.3B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

### Is DeepSeek Coder 1.3B or Qwen Max better for coding?

They score almost the same on coding (31.2 vs 30.7); test both on your own repository before choosing.

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

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. DeepSeek Coder 1.3B has 9 scored results on Noometry and Qwen Max has 23.