# DeepSeek Coder 6.7B vs Grok 4.20 (Non-Reasoning)

> Grok 4.20 (Non-Reasoning) has enough public results to be ranked (#54); DeepSeek Coder 6.7B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/deepseek-coder-6-7b-vs-grok-4-20
- Last updated: 2026-10-12
- Shared benchmarks: 1

## Summary

- They share 1 benchmark with published results for both. DeepSeek Coder 6.7B scores higher in 0 categories and Grok 4.20 (Non-Reasoning) in 1 category; one gap is clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in coding, where Grok 4.20 (Non-Reasoning) leads 42.1 to 35.8.
- DeepSeek Coder 6.7B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | DeepSeek Coder 6.7B | Grok 4.20 (Non-Reasoning) |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | DeepSeek | xAI |
| Noometry Index | 37.6 | 48.6 |
| Rank | — | 54 |
| Context | — | 1M |
| Input $/M | — | $1.25 |
| Output $/M | — | $2.50 |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |

## Coding

- DeepSeek Coder 6.7B: 35.8 (#219)
- Grok 4.20 (Non-Reasoning): 42.1 (#112)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 6.7B | Grok 4.20 (Non-Reasoning) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena WebDev | — | 1375 |
| WeirdML | — | 52.3% |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 35.5% | — |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1459 |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 43.8% | — |
| ALE-Bench | — | 1,150 |
| HumanEval+ | 71.3% | — |
| MBPP+ | 65.6% | — |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- DeepSeek Coder 6.7B: —
- Grok 4.20 (Non-Reasoning): 34.4 (#46)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 6.7B | Grok 4.20 (Non-Reasoning) |
|---|---|---|
| Terminal-Bench | — | 57.3% |
| τ²-bench Banking | — | 18% |
| LMArena Search | — | 1189 |
| Vending-Bench 2 | — | 4,663 |

## Reasoning

- DeepSeek Coder 6.7B: —
- Grok 4.20 (Non-Reasoning): 52.3 (#32)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 6.7B | Grok 4.20 (Non-Reasoning) |
|---|---|---|
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 89.62 | 151.98 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | — | 65.1% |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 75% |
| NYT Connections (extended) | — | 85.4% |
| ARC-AGI-1 | — | 89.5% |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 24% |
| Thematic Generalization | — | 63.8% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1451 |
| DTBench | — | 90.1% |
| LMCA | — | 38.7% |
| ForecastBench | — | 61.4 |
| WinoGrande | 57.6% | — |

## Math

- DeepSeek Coder 6.7B: —
- Grok 4.20 (Non-Reasoning): 48.2 (#65)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 6.7B | Grok 4.20 (Non-Reasoning) |
|---|---|---|
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | — | 44.9% |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 | — | 17.1% |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 92.2% |
| ProofBench | — | 14% |
| LMArena Math | — | 1455 |
| GSM8K | 21.3% | — |

## Knowledge

- DeepSeek Coder 6.7B: —
- Grok 4.20 (Non-Reasoning): 52.8 (#60)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 6.7B | Grok 4.20 (Non-Reasoning) |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | — | 89.3% |
| SimpleQA Verified | — | 30.2% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1439 |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 36.4% | — |
| MMLU | 36.4% | — |

## Multimodal

- DeepSeek Coder 6.7B: —
- Grok 4.20 (Non-Reasoning): 33.3 (#98)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 6.7B | Grok 4.20 (Non-Reasoning) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | — | 1263 |
| Blueprint-Bench 2 | — | 0% |
| LMArena Document | — | 1416 |

## Multilingual

- DeepSeek Coder 6.7B: —
- Grok 4.20 (Non-Reasoning): 54.5 (#40)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 6.7B | Grok 4.20 (Non-Reasoning) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1441 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1481 |
| LMArena French | — | 1476 |
| LMArena German | — | 1465 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1449 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1417 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1458 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1443 |

## Instruction Following

- DeepSeek Coder 6.7B: —
- Grok 4.20 (Non-Reasoning): 74.8 (#83)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 6.7B | Grok 4.20 (Non-Reasoning) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1420 |

## Long Context

- DeepSeek Coder 6.7B: —
- Grok 4.20 (Non-Reasoning): 45.5 (#34)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 6.7B | Grok 4.20 (Non-Reasoning) |
|---|---|---|
| CL-bench | — | 22.2% |
| CL-bench Life | — | 11.9% |
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1437 |

## Writing & Preference

- DeepSeek Coder 6.7B: —
- Grok 4.20 (Non-Reasoning): 65.7 (#44)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 6.7B | Grok 4.20 (Non-Reasoning) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1451 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1438 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 1574 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1456 |

## FAQ

### Is DeepSeek Coder 6.7B better than Grok 4.20 (Non-Reasoning)?

Grok 4.20 (Non-Reasoning) has enough public results to be ranked (#54); DeepSeek Coder 6.7B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

### Is DeepSeek Coder 6.7B or Grok 4.20 (Non-Reasoning) better for coding?

Grok 4.20 (Non-Reasoning) scores higher on coding benchmarks: 42.1 versus 35.8 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do DeepSeek Coder 6.7B and Grok 4.20 (Non-Reasoning) share?

1 benchmark has published results for both models. DeepSeek Coder 6.7B has 9 scored results on Noometry and Grok 4.20 (Non-Reasoning) has 46.