# DeepSeek Coder 33B vs Gemma 2 27B

> Gemma 2 27B has enough public results to be ranked (#302); DeepSeek Coder 33B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/deepseek-coder-33b-vs-gemma-2-27b
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 4

## Summary

- They share 4 benchmarks with published results for both. DeepSeek Coder 33B scores higher in 1 category and Gemma 2 27B in 0 categories; one gap is clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in coding, where DeepSeek Coder 33B leads 37.4 to 33.5.

## Snapshot

| | DeepSeek Coder 33B | Gemma 2 27B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | DeepSeek | Google |
| Noometry Index | 38.3 | 29.2 |
| Rank | — | 302 |
| Context | — | 8K |
| Input $/M | — | $0.65 |
| Output $/M | — | $0.65 |
| Weights | Open | Open |

## Coding

- DeepSeek Coder 33B: 37.4 (#180)
- Gemma 2 27B: 33.5 (#243)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 33B | Gemma 2 27B |
|---|---|---|
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 42% | 42.8% |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 51.1% | 52.5% |
| LiveBench Coding | — | 36% |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1211 |
| HumanEval+ | 75% | — |
| MBPP+ | 70.1% | — |

## Reasoning

- DeepSeek Coder 33B: —
- Gemma 2 27B: 14.8 (#313)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 33B | Gemma 2 27B |
|---|---|---|
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 95.74 | 122.06 |
| LiveBench Reasoning | — | 28.1% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1199 |
| DTBench | — | 48% |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | — | 47.9% |
| LMCA | — | 7.1% |
| LiveBench | — | 38.2% |
| WinoGrande | 62% | — |

## Math

- DeepSeek Coder 33B: —
- Gemma 2 27B: 10.0 (#306)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 33B | Gemma 2 27B |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 1.4% |
| LiveBench Math | — | 26.5% |
| LMArena Math | — | 1212 |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 27.9% |
| GSM8K | 35.4% | — |

## Knowledge

- DeepSeek Coder 33B: —
- Gemma 2 27B: 18.9 (#275)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 33B | Gemma 2 27B |
|---|---|---|
| MMLU | 39.4% | 75.7% |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 36.5% |
| Confabulations | — | 27.1% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1172 |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 42.2% | — |

## Multilingual

- DeepSeek Coder 33B: —
- Gemma 2 27B: 38.8 (#221)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 33B | Gemma 2 27B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1217 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1221 |
| LMArena French | — | 1246 |
| LMArena German | — | 1209 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1175 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1174 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1234 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1228 |

## Instruction Following

- DeepSeek Coder 33B: —
- Gemma 2 27B: 60.7 (#244)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 33B | Gemma 2 27B |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Instruction Following | — | 58.1% |
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1206 |

## Long Context

- DeepSeek Coder 33B: —
- Gemma 2 27B: 37.3 (#213)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 33B | Gemma 2 27B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1231 |

## Writing & Preference

- DeepSeek Coder 33B: —
- Gemma 2 27B: 44.4 (#220)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 33B | Gemma 2 27B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1231 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1241 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1224 |
| LiveBench Language | — | 32.6% |

## FAQ

### Is DeepSeek Coder 33B better than Gemma 2 27B?

Gemma 2 27B has enough public results to be ranked (#302); DeepSeek Coder 33B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

### Is DeepSeek Coder 33B or Gemma 2 27B better for coding?

DeepSeek Coder 33B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 37.4 versus 33.5 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do DeepSeek Coder 33B and Gemma 2 27B share?

4 benchmarks have published results for both models. DeepSeek Coder 33B has 9 scored results on Noometry and Gemma 2 27B has 34.