# DeepSeek Coder 33B vs Grok 3

> Grok 3 has enough public results to be ranked (#150); DeepSeek Coder 33B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

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

## Summary

- They share 1 benchmark with published results for both. DeepSeek Coder 33B scores higher in 0 categories and Grok 3 in 1 category; one gap is clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in coding, where Grok 3 leads 41.5 to 37.4.
- DeepSeek Coder 33B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | DeepSeek Coder 33B | Grok 3 |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | DeepSeek | xAI |
| Noometry Index | 38.3 | 39.6 |
| Rank | — | 150 |
| Context | — | — |
| Input $/M | — | — |
| Output $/M | — | — |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |

## Coding

- DeepSeek Coder 33B: 37.4 (#180)
- Grok 3: 41.5 (#113)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 33B | Grok 3 |
|---|---|---|
| Aider Polyglot | — | 53.3% |
| WeirdML | — | 37.2% |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 42% | — |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1432 |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 51.1% | — |
| HumanEval+ | 75% | — |
| MBPP+ | 70.1% | — |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- DeepSeek Coder 33B: —
- Grok 3: 30.2 (#69)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 33B | Grok 3 |
|---|---|---|
| BALROG | — | 29.5% |

## Reasoning

- DeepSeek Coder 33B: —
- Grok 3: 13.8 (#322)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 33B | Grok 3 |
|---|---|---|
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 95.74 | 138.34 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | — | 0% |
| SimpleBench | — | 36.1% |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 61.3% |
| ARC-AGI-1 | — | 5.5% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1433 |
| WinoGrande | 62% | — |

## Math

- DeepSeek Coder 33B: —
- Grok 3: 36.2 (#122)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 33B | Grok 3 |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 55.6% |
| Omni-MATH | — | 46.4% |
| LMArena Math | — | 1390 |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 88.7% |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | — | 3.8% |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1) | — | 0% |
| GSM8K | 35.4% | — |

## Knowledge

- DeepSeek Coder 33B: —
- Grok 3: 46.0 (#76)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 33B | Grok 3 |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | — | 75.8% |
| MMLU-Pro | — | 78.8% |
| Confabulations | — | 14.2% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 5.8% |
| GPQA (HELM) | — | 65% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1420 |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 42.2% | — |
| MMLU | 39.4% | — |

## Multilingual

- DeepSeek Coder 33B: —
- Grok 3: 52.5 (#81)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 33B | Grok 3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1411 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1448 |
| LMArena French | — | 1460 |
| LMArena German | — | 1431 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1389 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1374 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1416 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1417 |

## Instruction Following

- DeepSeek Coder 33B: —
- Grok 3: 75.2 (#69)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 33B | Grok 3 |
|---|---|---|
| IFEval | — | 88.4% |
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1409 |

## Long Context

- DeepSeek Coder 33B: —
- Grok 3: 38.7 (#187)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 33B | Grok 3 |
|---|---|---|
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 58.3% |
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1439 |

## Writing & Preference

- DeepSeek Coder 33B: —
- Grok 3: 56.0 (#136)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 33B | Grok 3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1426 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1414 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | — | 76.4% |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 1186 |
| WildBench | — | 84.9% |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1424 |

## FAQ

### Is DeepSeek Coder 33B better than Grok 3?

Grok 3 has enough public results to be ranked (#150); DeepSeek Coder 33B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

### Is DeepSeek Coder 33B or Grok 3 better for coding?

Grok 3 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 41.5 versus 37.4 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do DeepSeek Coder 33B and Grok 3 share?

1 benchmark has published results for both models. DeepSeek Coder 33B has 9 scored results on Noometry and Grok 3 has 40.