# DeepSeek Coder 33B vs Palm 2

> Palm 2 has enough public results to be ranked (#296); DeepSeek Coder 33B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

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

## Summary

- The widest gap is in coding, where DeepSeek Coder 33B leads 37.4 to 28.5.
- DeepSeek Coder 33B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | DeepSeek Coder 33B | Palm 2 |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | DeepSeek | Google |
| Noometry Index | 38.3 | 29.4 |
| Rank | — | 296 |
| Context | — | — |
| Input $/M | — | — |
| Output $/M | — | — |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |

## Coding

- DeepSeek Coder 33B: 37.4 (#180)
- Palm 2: 28.5 (#306)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 33B | Palm 2 |
|---|---|---|
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 42% | — |
| LMArena Coding | — | 995 |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 51.1% | — |
| HumanEval+ | 75% | — |
| MBPP+ | 70.1% | — |

## Reasoning

- DeepSeek Coder 33B: —
- Palm 2: 18.2 (#270)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 33B | Palm 2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1005 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 95.74 | — |
| WinoGrande | 62% | — |

## Math

- DeepSeek Coder 33B: —
- Palm 2: 28.4 (#229)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 33B | Palm 2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | — | 1049 |
| GSM8K | 35.4% | — |

## Knowledge

- DeepSeek Coder 33B: —
- Palm 2: —

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 33B | Palm 2 |
|---|---|---|
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 42.2% | — |
| MMLU | 39.4% | — |

## Multilingual

- DeepSeek Coder 33B: —
- Palm 2: 21.1 (#290)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 33B | Palm 2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 916 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 887 |

## Instruction Following

- DeepSeek Coder 33B: —
- Palm 2: 51.3 (#291)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 33B | Palm 2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1010 |

## Long Context

- DeepSeek Coder 33B: —
- Palm 2: 30.7 (#280)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 33B | Palm 2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1010 |

## Writing & Preference

- DeepSeek Coder 33B: —
- Palm 2: 25.7 (#299)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 33B | Palm 2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1027 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 991 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 994 |

## FAQ

### Is DeepSeek Coder 33B better than Palm 2?

Palm 2 has enough public results to be ranked (#296); DeepSeek Coder 33B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

### Is DeepSeek Coder 33B or Palm 2 better for coding?

DeepSeek Coder 33B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 37.4 versus 28.5 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do DeepSeek Coder 33B and Palm 2 share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. DeepSeek Coder 33B has 9 scored results on Noometry and Palm 2 has 10.