# DeepSeek Coder 33B vs Granite 3.1 8b Instruct

> Granite 3.1 8b Instruct has enough public results to be ranked (#258); DeepSeek Coder 33B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/deepseek-coder-33b-vs-granite-3-1-8b-instruct
- Last updated: 2026-10-11
- Shared benchmarks: 0

## Summary

- The widest gap is in coding, where DeepSeek Coder 33B leads 38.0 to 34.5.

## Snapshot

| | DeepSeek Coder 33B | Granite 3.1 8b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | DeepSeek | IBM |
| Noometry Index | 38.9 | 32.4 |
| Rank | — | 258 |
| Context | — | — |
| Input $/M | — | — |
| Output $/M | — | — |
| Weights | Open | Open |

## Coding

- DeepSeek Coder 33B: 38.0 (#184)
- Granite 3.1 8b Instruct: 34.5 (#233)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 33B | Granite 3.1 8b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 42% | — |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1186 |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 51.1% | — |
| HumanEval+ | 75% | — |
| MBPP+ | 70.1% | — |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- DeepSeek Coder 33B: —
- Granite 3.1 8b Instruct: 24.1 (#120)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 33B | Granite 3.1 8b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | — | 27.1% |

## Reasoning

- DeepSeek Coder 33B: —
- Granite 3.1 8b Instruct: 22.1 (#207)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 33B | Granite 3.1 8b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1145 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 96.32 | — |
| WinoGrande | 62% | — |

## Math

- DeepSeek Coder 33B: —
- Granite 3.1 8b Instruct: 33.0 (#209)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 33B | Granite 3.1 8b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | — | 1152 |
| GSM8K | 35.4% | — |

## Knowledge

- DeepSeek Coder 33B: —
- Granite 3.1 8b Instruct: 31.1 (#220)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 33B | Granite 3.1 8b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | — | 1142 |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 42.2% | — |
| MMLU | 39.4% | — |

## Multilingual

- DeepSeek Coder 33B: —
- Granite 3.1 8b Instruct: 30.9 (#260)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 33B | Granite 3.1 8b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1099 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1145 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1092 |

## Instruction Following

- DeepSeek Coder 33B: —
- Granite 3.1 8b Instruct: 58.6 (#259)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 33B | Granite 3.1 8b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1131 |

## Long Context

- DeepSeek Coder 33B: —
- Granite 3.1 8b Instruct: 35.2 (#241)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 33B | Granite 3.1 8b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1162 |

## Writing & Preference

- DeepSeek Coder 33B: —
- Granite 3.1 8b Instruct: 35.5 (#266)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 33B | Granite 3.1 8b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1150 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1129 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1108 |

## FAQ

### Is DeepSeek Coder 33B better than Granite 3.1 8b Instruct?

Granite 3.1 8b Instruct has enough public results to be ranked (#258); DeepSeek Coder 33B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

### Is DeepSeek Coder 33B or Granite 3.1 8b Instruct better for coding?

DeepSeek Coder 33B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 38.0 versus 34.5 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do DeepSeek Coder 33B and Granite 3.1 8b Instruct share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. DeepSeek Coder 33B has 9 scored results on Noometry and Granite 3.1 8b Instruct has 13.