# DeepSeek Coder 33B vs Grok 4.1

> Grok 4.1 has enough public results to be ranked (#135); DeepSeek Coder 33B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/deepseek-coder-33b-vs-grok-4-1
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 0

## Summary

- The widest gap is in coding, where DeepSeek Coder 33B leads 37.4 to 33.4.
- DeepSeek Coder 33B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | DeepSeek Coder 33B | Grok 4.1 |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | DeepSeek | xAI |
| Noometry Index | 38.3 | 40.8 |
| Rank | — | 135 |
| Context | — | — |
| Input $/M | — | — |
| Output $/M | — | — |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |

## Coding

- DeepSeek Coder 33B: 37.4 (#180)
- Grok 4.1: 33.4 (#246)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 33B | Grok 4.1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena WebDev | — | 1214 |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 42% | — |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1445 |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 51.1% | — |
| HumanEval+ | 75% | — |
| MBPP+ | 70.1% | — |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- DeepSeek Coder 33B: —
- Grok 4.1: 33.8 (#47)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 33B | Grok 4.1 |
|---|---|---|
| Cybench | — | 39% |

## Reasoning

- DeepSeek Coder 33B: —
- Grok 4.1: 28.3 (#91)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 33B | Grok 4.1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1436 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 95.74 | — |
| WinoGrande | 62% | — |

## Math

- DeepSeek Coder 33B: —
- Grok 4.1: 36.2 (#124)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 33B | Grok 4.1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | — | 1422 |
| GSM8K | 35.4% | — |

## Knowledge

- DeepSeek Coder 33B: —
- Grok 4.1: 38.9 (#129)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 33B | Grok 4.1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | — | 1417 |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 42.2% | — |
| MMLU | 39.4% | — |

## Multilingual

- DeepSeek Coder 33B: —
- Grok 4.1: 53.6 (#64)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 33B | Grok 4.1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1425 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1464 |
| LMArena French | — | 1448 |
| LMArena German | — | 1447 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1396 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1407 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1434 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1438 |

## Instruction Following

- DeepSeek Coder 33B: —
- Grok 4.1: 74.0 (#106)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 33B | Grok 4.1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1400 |

## Long Context

- DeepSeek Coder 33B: —
- Grok 4.1: 43.2 (#96)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 33B | Grok 4.1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1416 |

## Writing & Preference

- DeepSeek Coder 33B: —
- Grok 4.1: 62.6 (#71)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 33B | Grok 4.1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1437 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1411 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1438 |

## FAQ

### Is DeepSeek Coder 33B better than Grok 4.1?

Grok 4.1 has enough public results to be ranked (#135); DeepSeek Coder 33B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

### Is DeepSeek Coder 33B or Grok 4.1 better for coding?

DeepSeek Coder 33B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 37.4 versus 33.4 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do DeepSeek Coder 33B and Grok 4.1 share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. DeepSeek Coder 33B has 9 scored results on Noometry and Grok 4.1 has 19.