# DeepSeek Coder 33B vs Mercury 2.5

> Mercury 2.5 has enough public results to be ranked (#242); DeepSeek Coder 33B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/deepseek-coder-33b-vs-mercury-2-5
- Last updated: 2026-10-11
- Shared benchmarks: 0

## Summary

- DeepSeek Coder 33B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | DeepSeek Coder 33B | Mercury 2.5 |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | DeepSeek | Inception |
| Noometry Index | 38.9 | 33.5 |
| Rank | — | 242 |
| Context | — | 260K |
| Input $/M | — | $0.04 |
| Output $/M | — | $0.15 |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |

## Coding

- DeepSeek Coder 33B: 38.0 (#184)
- Mercury 2.5: 39.5 (#156)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 33B | Mercury 2.5 |
|---|---|---|
| SciCode | — | 38.5% |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 42% | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 51.1% | — |
| ALE-Bench | — | 301.65 |
| HumanEval+ | 75% | — |
| MBPP+ | 70.1% | — |

## Reasoning

- DeepSeek Coder 33B: —
- Mercury 2.5: 22.4 (#193)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 33B | Mercury 2.5 |
|---|---|---|
| CritPt | — | 0% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 96.32 | — |
| WinoGrande | 62% | — |

## Math

- DeepSeek Coder 33B: —
- Mercury 2.5: 23.3 (#272)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 33B | Mercury 2.5 |
|---|---|---|
| ProofBench | — | 3% |
| GSM8K | 35.4% | — |

## Knowledge

- DeepSeek Coder 33B: —
- Mercury 2.5: —

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 33B | Mercury 2.5 |
|---|---|---|
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 42.2% | — |
| MMLU | 39.4% | — |

## FAQ

### Is DeepSeek Coder 33B better than Mercury 2.5?

Mercury 2.5 has enough public results to be ranked (#242); DeepSeek Coder 33B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

### Is DeepSeek Coder 33B or Mercury 2.5 better for coding?

Mercury 2.5 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 39.5 versus 38.0 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do DeepSeek Coder 33B and Mercury 2.5 share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. DeepSeek Coder 33B has 9 scored results on Noometry and Mercury 2.5 has 4.