# DeepSeek Coder 1.3B vs Qwen1.5-72B

> Qwen1.5-72B has enough public results to be ranked (#285); DeepSeek Coder 1.3B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/deepseek-coder-1-3b-vs-qwen1-5-72b
- 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 Qwen1.5-72B in 1 category, but none of those gaps is larger than the uncertainty.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is BigCodeBench Complete: 29.6% for DeepSeek Coder 1.3B and 40.3% for Qwen1.5-72B.

## Snapshot

| | DeepSeek Coder 1.3B | Qwen1.5-72B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | DeepSeek | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 35.0 | 30.8 |
| Rank | — | 285 |
| Context | — | — |
| Input $/M | — | — |
| Output $/M | — | — |
| Weights | Open | Open |

## Coding

- DeepSeek Coder 1.3B: 31.2 (#287)
- Qwen1.5-72B: 31.9 (#277)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 1.3B | Qwen1.5-72B |
|---|---|---|
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 22.8% | 33.2% |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 29.6% | 40.3% |
| HumanEval+ | 60.4% | 59.1% |
| MBPP+ | 54.8% | 61.6% |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1165 |

## Reasoning

- DeepSeek Coder 1.3B: —
- Qwen1.5-72B: 22.2 (#203)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 1.3B | Qwen1.5-72B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1148 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 63.6 | — |
| WinoGrande | 53.3% | — |

## Math

- DeepSeek Coder 1.3B: —
- Qwen1.5-72B: 33.2 (#205)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 1.3B | Qwen1.5-72B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | — | 1164 |
| GSM8K | 4.4% | — |

## Knowledge

- DeepSeek Coder 1.3B: —
- Qwen1.5-72B: 11.5 (#300)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 1.3B | Qwen1.5-72B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | — | 28.8% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1136 |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 25.4% | — |
| MMLU | 25.8% | — |

## Multilingual

- DeepSeek Coder 1.3B: —
- Qwen1.5-72B: 33.2 (#253)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 1.3B | Qwen1.5-72B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1135 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1186 |
| LMArena French | — | 1159 |
| LMArena German | — | 1084 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1061 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1050 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1104 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1110 |

## Instruction Following

- DeepSeek Coder 1.3B: —
- Qwen1.5-72B: 59.3 (#256)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 1.3B | Qwen1.5-72B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1141 |

## Long Context

- DeepSeek Coder 1.3B: —
- Qwen1.5-72B: 35.1 (#243)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 1.3B | Qwen1.5-72B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1157 |

## Writing & Preference

- DeepSeek Coder 1.3B: —
- Qwen1.5-72B: 37.3 (#258)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 1.3B | Qwen1.5-72B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1166 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1137 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1160 |

## FAQ

### Is DeepSeek Coder 1.3B better than Qwen1.5-72B?

Qwen1.5-72B has enough public results to be ranked (#285); DeepSeek Coder 1.3B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

### Is DeepSeek Coder 1.3B or Qwen1.5-72B better for coding?

They score almost the same on coding (31.2 vs 31.9); test both on your own repository before choosing.

### How many benchmarks do DeepSeek Coder 1.3B and Qwen1.5-72B share?

4 benchmarks have published results for both models. DeepSeek Coder 1.3B has 9 scored results on Noometry and Qwen1.5-72B has 22.