# DeepSeek Coder 33B vs Mercury

> Mercury has enough public results to be ranked (#199); DeepSeek Coder 33B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/deepseek-coder-33b-vs-mercury
- 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | DeepSeek | Inception |
| Noometry Index | 38.9 | 37.6 |
| Rank | — | 199 |
| Context | — | — |
| Input $/M | — | — |
| Output $/M | — | — |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |

## Coding

- DeepSeek Coder 33B: 38.0 (#184)
- Mercury: 38.7 (#170)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 33B | Mercury |
|---|---|---|
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 42% | — |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1322 |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 51.1% | — |
| HumanEval+ | 75% | — |
| MBPP+ | 70.1% | — |

## Reasoning

- DeepSeek Coder 33B: —
- Mercury: 17.5 (#293)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 33B | Mercury |
|---|---|---|
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 21.6% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1285 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 96.32 | — |
| WinoGrande | 62% | — |

## Math

- DeepSeek Coder 33B: —
- Mercury: —

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

## Knowledge

- DeepSeek Coder 33B: —
- Mercury: —

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

## Multilingual

- DeepSeek Coder 33B: —
- Mercury: 41.6 (#206)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 33B | Mercury |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1260 |

## Instruction Following

- DeepSeek Coder 33B: —
- Mercury: 65.2 (#224)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 33B | Mercury |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1239 |

## Long Context

- DeepSeek Coder 33B: —
- Mercury: 38.4 (#198)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 33B | Mercury |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1266 |

## Writing & Preference

- DeepSeek Coder 33B: —
- Mercury: 46.2 (#221)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 33B | Mercury |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1282 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1191 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1282 |

## FAQ

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

Mercury has enough public results to be ranked (#199); DeepSeek Coder 33B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

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

They score almost the same on coding (38.0 vs 38.7); test both on your own repository before choosing.

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

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