# DeepSeek Coder 33B vs DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B

> DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B has enough public results to be ranked (#195); DeepSeek Coder 33B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/deepseek-coder-33b-vs-deepseek-r1-distill-llama-70b
- Last updated: 2026-10-12
- Shared benchmarks: 2

## Summary

- They share 2 benchmarks with published results for both. DeepSeek Coder 33B scores higher in 1 category and DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B in 0 categories; one gap is clear of the uncertainty.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is BigCodeBench Instruct: 42% for DeepSeek Coder 33B and 35.3% for DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B.

## Snapshot

| | DeepSeek Coder 33B | DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | DeepSeek | DeepSeek |
| Noometry Index | 38.9 | 37.8 |
| Rank | — | 195 |
| Context | — | — |
| Input $/M | — | — |
| Output $/M | — | — |
| Weights | Open | Open |

## Coding

- DeepSeek Coder 33B: 38.0 (#184)
- DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B: 36.8 (#202)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 33B | DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B |
|---|---|---|
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 42% | 35.3% |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 51.1% | 49.9% |
| LiveBench Coding | — | 51.6% |
| HumanEval+ | 75% | — |
| MBPP+ | 70.1% | — |

## Reasoning

- DeepSeek Coder 33B: —
- DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B: 24.9 (#156)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 33B | DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B |
|---|---|---|
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 52.3% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | — | 67.6% |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | — | 55.9% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 96.32 | — |
| LiveBench | — | 54.5% |
| WinoGrande | 62% | — |

## Math

- DeepSeek Coder 33B: —
- DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B: 36.0 (#176)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 33B | DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 51.4% |
| LiveBench Math | — | 58.1% |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 89.9% |
| GSM8K | 35.4% | — |

## Knowledge

- DeepSeek Coder 33B: —
- DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B: 30.7 (#225)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 33B | DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | — | 55.7% |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 42.2% | — |
| MMLU | 39.4% | — |

## Instruction Following

- DeepSeek Coder 33B: —
- DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B: 68.2 (#190)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 33B | DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Instruction Following | — | 69.9% |

## Writing & Preference

- DeepSeek Coder 33B: —
- DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B: 49.0 (#194)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 33B | DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Language | — | 23.8% |

## FAQ

### Is DeepSeek Coder 33B better than DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B?

DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B has enough public results to be ranked (#195); DeepSeek Coder 33B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

### Is DeepSeek Coder 33B or DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B better for coding?

DeepSeek Coder 33B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 38.0 versus 36.8 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do DeepSeek Coder 33B and DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B share?

2 benchmarks have published results for both models. DeepSeek Coder 33B has 9 scored results on Noometry and DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B has 13.