# DeepSeek Coder 1.3B vs Qwen3 14B

> Qwen3 14B has enough public results to be ranked (#225); DeepSeek Coder 1.3B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/deepseek-coder-1-3b-vs-qwen3-14b
- Last updated: 2026-10-11
- Shared benchmarks: 1

## Summary

- They share 1 benchmark with published results for both. DeepSeek Coder 1.3B scores higher in 0 categories and Qwen3 14B in 1 category; one gap is clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in coding, where Qwen3 14B leads 37.3 to 31.2.

## Snapshot

| | DeepSeek Coder 1.3B | Qwen3 14B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | DeepSeek | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 35.0 | 35.5 |
| Rank | — | 225 |
| Context | — | 131K |
| Input $/M | — | $0.35 |
| Output $/M | — | $1.40 |
| Weights | Open | Open |

## Coding

- DeepSeek Coder 1.3B: 31.2 (#287)
- Qwen3 14B: 37.3 (#195)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 1.3B | Qwen3 14B |
|---|---|---|
| SciCode | — | 31.6% |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 22.8% | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 29.6% | — |
| HumanEval+ | 60.4% | — |
| MBPP+ | 54.8% | — |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- DeepSeek Coder 1.3B: —
- Qwen3 14B: 29.6 (#83)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 1.3B | Qwen3 14B |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | — | 41% |

## Reasoning

- DeepSeek Coder 1.3B: —
- Qwen3 14B: 18.5 (#280)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 1.3B | Qwen3 14B |
|---|---|---|
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 63.6 | 138.23 |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 49.1% |
| CritPt | — | 0% |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 4% |
| DTBench | — | 64% |
| LMCA | — | 18.2% |
| WinoGrande | 53.3% | — |

## Math

- DeepSeek Coder 1.3B: —
- Qwen3 14B: 38.6 (#133)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 1.3B | Qwen3 14B |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 66.4% |
| GSM8K | 4.4% | — |

## Knowledge

- DeepSeek Coder 1.3B: —
- Qwen3 14B: 39.3 (#134)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 1.3B | Qwen3 14B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | — | 63.8% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 5.4% |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 25.4% | — |
| MMLU | 25.8% | — |

## Long Context

- DeepSeek Coder 1.3B: —
- Qwen3 14B: 38.1 (#204)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 1.3B | Qwen3 14B |
|---|---|---|
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 62.5% |

## FAQ

### Is DeepSeek Coder 1.3B better than Qwen3 14B?

Qwen3 14B has enough public results to be ranked (#225); DeepSeek Coder 1.3B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

### Is DeepSeek Coder 1.3B or Qwen3 14B better for coding?

Qwen3 14B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 37.3 versus 31.2 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do DeepSeek Coder 1.3B and Qwen3 14B share?

1 benchmark has published results for both models. DeepSeek Coder 1.3B has 9 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3 14B has 12.