# DeepSeek Coder 33B vs Qwen1.5-7B

> Qwen1.5-7B has enough public results to be ranked (#270); DeepSeek Coder 33B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/deepseek-coder-33b-vs-qwen1-5-7b
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 1

## Summary

- They share 1 benchmark with published results for both. DeepSeek Coder 33B scores higher in 1 category and Qwen1.5-7B in 0 categories; one gap is clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in coding, where DeepSeek Coder 33B leads 37.4 to 31.6.

## Snapshot

| | DeepSeek Coder 33B | Qwen1.5-7B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | DeepSeek | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 38.3 | 30.8 |
| Rank | — | 270 |
| Context | — | — |
| Input $/M | — | — |
| Output $/M | — | — |
| Weights | Open | Open |

## Coding

- DeepSeek Coder 33B: 37.4 (#180)
- Qwen1.5-7B: 31.6 (#271)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 33B | Qwen1.5-7B |
|---|---|---|
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 42% | — |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1107 |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 51.1% | — |
| HumanEval+ | 75% | — |
| MBPP+ | 70.1% | — |

## Reasoning

- DeepSeek Coder 33B: —
- Qwen1.5-7B: 19.5 (#237)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 33B | Qwen1.5-7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1066 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 95.74 | — |
| WinoGrande | 62% | — |

## Math

- DeepSeek Coder 33B: —
- Qwen1.5-7B: 29.0 (#222)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 33B | Qwen1.5-7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | — | 1080 |
| GSM8K | 35.4% | — |

## Knowledge

- DeepSeek Coder 33B: —
- Qwen1.5-7B: 28.2 (#239)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 33B | Qwen1.5-7B |
|---|---|---|
| MMLU | 39.4% | 62.6% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1055 |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 42.2% | — |

## Multilingual

- DeepSeek Coder 33B: —
- Qwen1.5-7B: 28.6 (#266)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 33B | Qwen1.5-7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1058 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1140 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1006 |

## Instruction Following

- DeepSeek Coder 33B: —
- Qwen1.5-7B: 54.4 (#276)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 33B | Qwen1.5-7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1058 |

## Long Context

- DeepSeek Coder 33B: —
- Qwen1.5-7B: 33.1 (#261)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 33B | Qwen1.5-7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1090 |

## Writing & Preference

- DeepSeek Coder 33B: —
- Qwen1.5-7B: 29.8 (#288)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 33B | Qwen1.5-7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1084 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1035 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1061 |

## FAQ

### Is DeepSeek Coder 33B better than Qwen1.5-7B?

Qwen1.5-7B has enough public results to be ranked (#270); DeepSeek Coder 33B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

### Is DeepSeek Coder 33B or Qwen1.5-7B better for coding?

DeepSeek Coder 33B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 37.4 versus 31.6 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do DeepSeek Coder 33B and Qwen1.5-7B share?

1 benchmark has published results for both models. DeepSeek Coder 33B has 9 scored results on Noometry and Qwen1.5-7B has 13.