# DeepSeek Coder 33B vs Qwen1.5-32B

> Qwen1.5-32B has enough public results to be ranked (#293); DeepSeek Coder 33B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/deepseek-coder-33b-vs-qwen1-5-32b
- Last updated: 2026-10-11
- Shared benchmarks: 3

## Summary

- They share 3 benchmarks with published results for both. DeepSeek Coder 33B scores higher in 1 category and Qwen1.5-32B in 0 categories; one gap is clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in coding, where DeepSeek Coder 33B leads 38.0 to 31.7.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is BigCodeBench Instruct: 42% for DeepSeek Coder 33B and 32.3% for Qwen1.5-32B.

## Snapshot

| | DeepSeek Coder 33B | Qwen1.5-32B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | DeepSeek | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 38.9 | 30.5 |
| Rank | — | 293 |
| Context | — | — |
| Input $/M | — | — |
| Output $/M | — | — |
| Weights | Open | Open |

## Coding

- DeepSeek Coder 33B: 38.0 (#184)
- Qwen1.5-32B: 31.7 (#282)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 33B | Qwen1.5-32B |
|---|---|---|
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 42% | 32.3% |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 51.1% | 42% |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1155 |
| HumanEval+ | 75% | — |
| MBPP+ | 70.1% | — |

## Reasoning

- DeepSeek Coder 33B: —
- Qwen1.5-32B: 21.8 (#212)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 33B | Qwen1.5-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1130 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 96.32 | — |
| WinoGrande | 62% | — |

## Math

- DeepSeek Coder 33B: —
- Qwen1.5-32B: 33.0 (#207)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 33B | Qwen1.5-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | — | 1155 |
| GSM8K | 35.4% | — |

## Knowledge

- DeepSeek Coder 33B: —
- Qwen1.5-32B: 13.5 (#296)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 33B | Qwen1.5-32B |
|---|---|---|
| MMLU | 39.4% | 74.4% |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 30.7% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1126 |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 42.2% | — |

## Multilingual

- DeepSeek Coder 33B: —
- Qwen1.5-32B: 31.4 (#259)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 33B | Qwen1.5-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1106 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1177 |
| LMArena French | — | 1101 |
| LMArena German | — | 1058 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1027 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1008 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1073 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1089 |

## Instruction Following

- DeepSeek Coder 33B: —
- Qwen1.5-32B: 57.7 (#265)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 33B | Qwen1.5-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1116 |

## Long Context

- DeepSeek Coder 33B: —
- Qwen1.5-32B: 34.7 (#246)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 33B | Qwen1.5-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1146 |

## Writing & Preference

- DeepSeek Coder 33B: —
- Qwen1.5-32B: 34.2 (#271)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 33B | Qwen1.5-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1137 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1083 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1140 |

## FAQ

### Is DeepSeek Coder 33B better than Qwen1.5-32B?

Qwen1.5-32B has enough public results to be ranked (#293); DeepSeek Coder 33B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

### Is DeepSeek Coder 33B or Qwen1.5-32B better for coding?

DeepSeek Coder 33B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 38.0 versus 31.7 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do DeepSeek Coder 33B and Qwen1.5-32B share?

3 benchmarks have published results for both models. DeepSeek Coder 33B has 9 scored results on Noometry and Qwen1.5-32B has 21.