# DeepSeek Coder 6.7B vs Llama 3.1-70B

> Llama 3.1-70B has enough public results to be ranked (#299); DeepSeek Coder 6.7B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/deepseek-coder-6-7b-vs-llama-3-1-70b
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 4

## Summary

- They share 4 benchmarks with published results for both. DeepSeek Coder 6.7B scores higher in 1 category and Llama 3.1-70B in 0 categories; one gap is clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in coding, where DeepSeek Coder 6.7B leads 35.2 to 29.8.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is BigCodeBench Complete: 43.8% for DeepSeek Coder 6.7B and 54.8% for Llama 3.1-70B.

## Snapshot

| | DeepSeek Coder 6.7B | Llama 3.1-70B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | DeepSeek | Meta |
| Noometry Index | 37.1 | 29.4 |
| Rank | — | 299 |
| Context | — | 128K |
| Input $/M | — | $0.40 |
| Output $/M | — | $0.40 |
| Weights | Open | Open |

## Coding

- DeepSeek Coder 6.7B: 35.2 (#216)
- Llama 3.1-70B: 29.8 (#292)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 6.7B | Llama 3.1-70B |
|---|---|---|
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 35.5% | 46.1% |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 43.8% | 54.8% |
| WeirdML | — | 9% |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1260 |
| HumanEval+ | 71.3% | — |
| MBPP+ | 65.6% | — |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- DeepSeek Coder 6.7B: —
- Llama 3.1-70B: 24.9 (#104)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 6.7B | Llama 3.1-70B |
|---|---|---|
| TheAgentCompany | — | 6.9% |
| BALROG | — | 27.9% |

## Reasoning

- DeepSeek Coder 6.7B: —
- Llama 3.1-70B: 20.8 (#215)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 6.7B | Llama 3.1-70B |
|---|---|---|
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 88.88 | 125.91 |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1241 |
| DTBench | — | 60% |
| LMCA | — | 14.8% |
| WinoGrande | 57.6% | — |

## Math

- DeepSeek Coder 6.7B: —
- Llama 3.1-70B: 12.7 (#298)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 6.7B | Llama 3.1-70B |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 3.6% |
| Omni-MATH | — | 21% |
| LMArena Math | — | 1252 |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 36.7% |
| GSM8K | 21.3% | — |

## Knowledge

- DeepSeek Coder 6.7B: —
- Llama 3.1-70B: 24.1 (#264)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 6.7B | Llama 3.1-70B |
|---|---|---|
| MMLU | 36.4% | 80.1% |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 44.2% |
| MMLU-Pro | — | 65.3% |
| GPQA (HELM) | — | 42.6% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1209 |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 36.4% | — |

## Multilingual

- DeepSeek Coder 6.7B: —
- Llama 3.1-70B: 38.9 (#220)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 6.7B | Llama 3.1-70B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1219 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1215 |
| LMArena French | — | 1260 |
| LMArena German | — | 1222 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1132 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1140 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1234 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1253 |

## Instruction Following

- DeepSeek Coder 6.7B: —
- Llama 3.1-70B: 65.5 (#218)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 6.7B | Llama 3.1-70B |
|---|---|---|
| IFEval | — | 82.1% |
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1231 |

## Long Context

- DeepSeek Coder 6.7B: —
- Llama 3.1-70B: 37.6 (#208)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 6.7B | Llama 3.1-70B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1241 |

## Writing & Preference

- DeepSeek Coder 6.7B: —
- Llama 3.1-70B: 35.6 (#262)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 6.7B | Llama 3.1-70B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1261 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1232 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 784 |
| WildBench | — | 75.8% |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1256 |

## FAQ

### Is DeepSeek Coder 6.7B better than Llama 3.1-70B?

Llama 3.1-70B has enough public results to be ranked (#299); DeepSeek Coder 6.7B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

### Is DeepSeek Coder 6.7B or Llama 3.1-70B better for coding?

DeepSeek Coder 6.7B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 35.2 versus 29.8 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do DeepSeek Coder 6.7B and Llama 3.1-70B share?

4 benchmarks have published results for both models. DeepSeek Coder 6.7B has 9 scored results on Noometry and Llama 3.1-70B has 35.