# DeepSeek Coder 33B vs Llama 3.1-70B

> Llama 3.1-70B has enough public results to be ranked (#308); DeepSeek Coder 33B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/deepseek-coder-33b-vs-llama-3-1-70b
- Last updated: 2026-10-11
- Shared benchmarks: 4

## Summary

- They share 4 benchmarks with published results for both. DeepSeek Coder 33B scores higher in 1 category and Llama 3.1-70B in 0 categories; one gap is clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in coding, where DeepSeek Coder 33B leads 38.0 to 30.3.

## Snapshot

| | DeepSeek Coder 33B | Llama 3.1-70B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | DeepSeek | Meta |
| Noometry Index | 38.9 | 29.6 |
| Rank | — | 308 |
| Context | — | 128K |
| Input $/M | — | $0.40 |
| Output $/M | — | $0.40 |
| Weights | Open | Open |

## Coding

- DeepSeek Coder 33B: 38.0 (#184)
- Llama 3.1-70B: 30.3 (#296)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 33B | Llama 3.1-70B |
|---|---|---|
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 42% | 46.1% |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 51.1% | 54.8% |
| WeirdML | — | 9% |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1260 |
| HumanEval+ | 75% | — |
| MBPP+ | 70.1% | — |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- DeepSeek Coder 33B: —
- Llama 3.1-70B: 25.1 (#112)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 33B | Llama 3.1-70B |
|---|---|---|
| TheAgentCompany | — | 6.9% |
| BALROG | — | 27.9% |

## Reasoning

- DeepSeek Coder 33B: —
- Llama 3.1-70B: 21.6 (#220)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 33B | Llama 3.1-70B |
|---|---|---|
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 96.32 | 125.92 |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1241 |
| DTBench | — | 60% |
| LMCA | — | 14.8% |
| WinoGrande | 62% | — |

## Math

- DeepSeek Coder 33B: —
- Llama 3.1-70B: 13.5 (#304)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 33B | Llama 3.1-70B |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 3.6% |
| Omni-MATH | — | 21% |
| LMArena Math | — | 1252 |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 36.7% |
| GSM8K | 35.4% | — |

## Knowledge

- DeepSeek Coder 33B: —
- Llama 3.1-70B: 24.2 (#269)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 33B | Llama 3.1-70B |
|---|---|---|
| MMLU | 39.4% | 80.1% |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 44.2% |
| MMLU-Pro | — | 65.3% |
| GPQA (HELM) | — | 42.6% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1209 |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 42.2% | — |

## Multilingual

- DeepSeek Coder 33B: —
- Llama 3.1-70B: 38.8 (#225)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 33B | Llama 3.1-70B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1219 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1215 |
| LMArena French | — | 1261 |
| LMArena German | — | 1222 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1132 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1140 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1234 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1253 |

## Instruction Following

- DeepSeek Coder 33B: —
- Llama 3.1-70B: 65.3 (#223)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 33B | Llama 3.1-70B |
|---|---|---|
| IFEval | — | 82.1% |
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1231 |

## Long Context

- DeepSeek Coder 33B: —
- Llama 3.1-70B: 37.6 (#214)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 33B | Llama 3.1-70B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1241 |

## Writing & Preference

- DeepSeek Coder 33B: —
- Llama 3.1-70B: 35.4 (#267)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 33B | Llama 3.1-70B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1261 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1232 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 784 |
| WildBench | — | 75.8% |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1256 |

## FAQ

### Is DeepSeek Coder 33B better than Llama 3.1-70B?

Llama 3.1-70B has enough public results to be ranked (#308); DeepSeek Coder 33B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

### Is DeepSeek Coder 33B or Llama 3.1-70B better for coding?

DeepSeek Coder 33B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 38.0 versus 30.3 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do DeepSeek Coder 33B and Llama 3.1-70B share?

4 benchmarks have published results for both models. DeepSeek Coder 33B has 9 scored results on Noometry and Llama 3.1-70B has 35.