# DeepSeek Coder 33B vs Granite 3.0 2b Instruct

> Granite 3.0 2b Instruct has enough public results to be ranked (#284); DeepSeek Coder 33B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/deepseek-coder-33b-vs-granite-3-0-2b-instruct
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 1

## Summary

- They share 1 benchmark with published results for both. DeepSeek Coder 33B scores higher in 1 category and Granite 3.0 2b Instruct in 0 categories; one gap is clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in coding, where DeepSeek Coder 33B leads 37.4 to 27.8.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is BigCodeBench Instruct: 42% for DeepSeek Coder 33B and 20.5% for Granite 3.0 2b Instruct.

## Snapshot

| | DeepSeek Coder 33B | Granite 3.0 2b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | DeepSeek | IBM |
| Noometry Index | 38.3 | 30.2 |
| Rank | — | 284 |
| Context | — | — |
| Input $/M | — | — |
| Output $/M | — | — |
| Weights | Open | Open |

## Coding

- DeepSeek Coder 33B: 37.4 (#180)
- Granite 3.0 2b Instruct: 27.8 (#311)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 33B | Granite 3.0 2b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 42% | 20.5% |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1090 |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 51.1% | — |
| HumanEval+ | 75% | — |
| MBPP+ | 70.1% | — |

## Reasoning

- DeepSeek Coder 33B: —
- Granite 3.0 2b Instruct: 19.6 (#234)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 33B | Granite 3.0 2b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1073 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 95.74 | — |
| WinoGrande | 62% | — |

## Math

- DeepSeek Coder 33B: —
- Granite 3.0 2b Instruct: 29.7 (#215)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 33B | Granite 3.0 2b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | — | 1117 |
| GSM8K | 35.4% | — |

## Knowledge

- DeepSeek Coder 33B: —
- Granite 3.0 2b Instruct: 28.4 (#238)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 33B | Granite 3.0 2b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | — | 1064 |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 42.2% | — |
| MMLU | 39.4% | — |

## Multilingual

- DeepSeek Coder 33B: —
- Granite 3.0 2b Instruct: 27.1 (#273)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 33B | Granite 3.0 2b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1033 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1070 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1045 |

## Instruction Following

- DeepSeek Coder 33B: —
- Granite 3.0 2b Instruct: 54.2 (#279)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 33B | Granite 3.0 2b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1056 |

## Long Context

- DeepSeek Coder 33B: —
- Granite 3.0 2b Instruct: 32.5 (#263)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 33B | Granite 3.0 2b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1071 |

## Writing & Preference

- DeepSeek Coder 33B: —
- Granite 3.0 2b Instruct: 29.8 (#287)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 33B | Granite 3.0 2b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1080 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1046 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1053 |

## FAQ

### Is DeepSeek Coder 33B better than Granite 3.0 2b Instruct?

Granite 3.0 2b Instruct has enough public results to be ranked (#284); DeepSeek Coder 33B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

### Is DeepSeek Coder 33B or Granite 3.0 2b Instruct better for coding?

DeepSeek Coder 33B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 37.4 versus 27.8 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do DeepSeek Coder 33B and Granite 3.0 2b Instruct share?

1 benchmark has published results for both models. DeepSeek Coder 33B has 9 scored results on Noometry and Granite 3.0 2b Instruct has 13.