# DeepSeek Coder 33B vs Qwen3.6 35B-A3B

> Qwen3.6 35B-A3B has enough public results to be ranked (#194); DeepSeek Coder 33B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/deepseek-coder-33b-vs-qwen3-6-35b-a3b
- 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 Qwen3.6 35B-A3B in 0 categories, but none of those gaps is larger than the uncertainty.

## Snapshot

| | DeepSeek Coder 33B | Qwen3.6 35B-A3B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | DeepSeek | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 38.3 | 37.2 |
| Rank | — | 194 |
| Context | — | 262K |
| Input $/M | — | $0.25 |
| Output $/M | — | $1.49 |
| Weights | Open | Open |

## Coding

- DeepSeek Coder 33B: 37.4 (#180)
- Qwen3.6 35B-A3B: 36.7 (#190)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 33B | Qwen3.6 35B-A3B |
|---|---|---|
| SciCode | — | 35.8% |
| WeirdML | — | 34.5% |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 42% | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 51.1% | — |
| HumanEval+ | 75% | — |
| MBPP+ | 70.1% | — |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- DeepSeek Coder 33B: —
- Qwen3.6 35B-A3B: 21.9 (#126)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 33B | Qwen3.6 35B-A3B |
|---|---|---|
| Terminal-Bench | — | 23% |

## Reasoning

- DeepSeek Coder 33B: —
- Qwen3.6 35B-A3B: 27.2 (#112)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 33B | Qwen3.6 35B-A3B |
|---|---|---|
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 95.74 | 143.92 |
| NYT Connections (extended) | — | 41.6% |
| CritPt | — | 0.3% |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 26% |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | — | 22% |
| DTBench | — | 73.9% |
| LMCA | — | 29.7% |
| Surface Evolver Bench | — | 44.4% |
| WinoGrande | 62% | — |

## Math

- DeepSeek Coder 33B: —
- Qwen3.6 35B-A3B: 37.9 (#90)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 33B | Qwen3.6 35B-A3B |
|---|---|---|
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | — | 20.4% |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 86.7% |
| GSM8K | 35.4% | — |

## Knowledge

- DeepSeek Coder 33B: —
- Qwen3.6 35B-A3B: 51.4 (#63)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 33B | Qwen3.6 35B-A3B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | — | 84.8% |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 42.2% | — |
| MMLU | 39.4% | — |

## FAQ

### Is DeepSeek Coder 33B better than Qwen3.6 35B-A3B?

Qwen3.6 35B-A3B has enough public results to be ranked (#194); DeepSeek Coder 33B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

### Is DeepSeek Coder 33B or Qwen3.6 35B-A3B better for coding?

They score almost the same on coding (37.4 vs 36.7); test both on your own repository before choosing.

### How many benchmarks do DeepSeek Coder 33B and Qwen3.6 35B-A3B share?

1 benchmark has published results for both models. DeepSeek Coder 33B has 9 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3.6 35B-A3B has 14.