# DeepSeek Coder 33B vs Gemma 2 9B

> Gemma 2 9B has enough public results to be ranked (#334); DeepSeek Coder 33B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/deepseek-coder-33b-vs-gemma-2-9b
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 5

## Summary

- They share 5 benchmarks with published results for both. DeepSeek Coder 33B scores higher in 1 category and Gemma 2 9B in 0 categories; one gap is clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in coding, where DeepSeek Coder 33B leads 37.4 to 29.0.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is BigCodeBench Complete: 51.1% for DeepSeek Coder 33B and 40.6% for Gemma 2 9B.

## Snapshot

| | DeepSeek Coder 33B | Gemma 2 9B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | DeepSeek | Google |
| Noometry Index | 38.3 | 25.7 |
| Rank | — | 334 |
| Context | — | — |
| Input $/M | — | — |
| Output $/M | — | — |
| Weights | Open | Open |

## Coding

- DeepSeek Coder 33B: 37.4 (#180)
- Gemma 2 9B: 29.0 (#299)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 33B | Gemma 2 9B |
|---|---|---|
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 42% | 34.7% |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 51.1% | 40.6% |
| LiveBench Coding | — | 22.5% |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1174 |
| HumanEval+ | 75% | — |
| MBPP+ | 70.1% | — |

## Reasoning

- DeepSeek Coder 33B: —
- Gemma 2 9B: 15.3 (#306)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 33B | Gemma 2 9B |
|---|---|---|
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 95.74 | 119.78 |
| LiveBench Reasoning | — | 15.2% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1172 |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | — | 36.4% |
| LiveBench | — | 28.7% |
| PIQA | — | 83.7% |
| WinoGrande | 62% | — |

## Math

- DeepSeek Coder 33B: —
- Gemma 2 9B: 9.3 (#312)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 33B | Gemma 2 9B |
|---|---|---|
| GSM8K | 35.4% | 84.9% |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 0.6% |
| LiveBench Math | — | 19.8% |
| LMArena Math | — | 1183 |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 21% |

## Knowledge

- DeepSeek Coder 33B: —
- Gemma 2 9B: 9.7 (#300)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 33B | Gemma 2 9B |
|---|---|---|
| MMLU | 39.4% | 72.1% |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 27.5% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1147 |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 42.2% | — |
| BoolQ | — | 85.7% |

## Multilingual

- DeepSeek Coder 33B: —
- Gemma 2 9B: 36.8 (#233)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 33B | Gemma 2 9B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1188 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1185 |
| LMArena French | — | 1189 |
| LMArena German | — | 1186 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1144 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1137 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1200 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1200 |

## Instruction Following

- DeepSeek Coder 33B: —
- Gemma 2 9B: 57.8 (#264)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 33B | Gemma 2 9B |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Instruction Following | — | 52.6% |
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1178 |

## Long Context

- DeepSeek Coder 33B: —
- Gemma 2 9B: 36.3 (#228)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 33B | Gemma 2 9B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1197 |

## Writing & Preference

- DeepSeek Coder 33B: —
- Gemma 2 9B: 32.3 (#276)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 33B | Gemma 2 9B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1207 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1206 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 841 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1193 |
| LiveBench Language | — | 25.5% |

## FAQ

### Is DeepSeek Coder 33B better than Gemma 2 9B?

Gemma 2 9B has enough public results to be ranked (#334); DeepSeek Coder 33B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

### Is DeepSeek Coder 33B or Gemma 2 9B better for coding?

DeepSeek Coder 33B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 37.4 versus 29.0 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do DeepSeek Coder 33B and Gemma 2 9B share?

5 benchmarks have published results for both models. DeepSeek Coder 33B has 9 scored results on Noometry and Gemma 2 9B has 35.