# DeepSeek Coder 6.7B vs Qwen Max

> Qwen Max has enough public results to be ranked (#226); DeepSeek Coder 6.7B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/deepseek-coder-6-7b-vs-qwen-max
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 0

## Summary

- The widest gap is in coding, where DeepSeek Coder 6.7B leads 35.2 to 30.3.
- DeepSeek Coder 6.7B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | DeepSeek Coder 6.7B | Qwen Max |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | DeepSeek | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 37.1 | 34.4 |
| Rank | — | 226 |
| Context | — | 33K |
| Input $/M | — | $1.60 |
| Output $/M | — | $6.40 |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |

## Coding

- DeepSeek Coder 6.7B: 35.2 (#216)
- Qwen Max: 30.3 (#288)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 6.7B | Qwen Max |
|---|---|---|
| Aider Polyglot | — | 21.8% |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 35.5% | — |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1288 |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 43.8% | — |
| HumanEval+ | 71.3% | — |
| MBPP+ | 65.6% | — |

## Reasoning

- DeepSeek Coder 6.7B: —
- Qwen Max: 24.1 (#154)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 6.7B | Qwen Max |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1270 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 88.88 | — |
| WinoGrande | 57.6% | — |

## Math

- DeepSeek Coder 6.7B: —
- Qwen Max: 21.0 (#272)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 6.7B | Qwen Max |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 16.1% |
| LMArena Math | — | 1275 |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 67.2% |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | — | 1% |
| GSM8K | 21.3% | — |

## Knowledge

- DeepSeek Coder 6.7B: —
- Qwen Max: 30.3 (#222)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 6.7B | Qwen Max |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | — | 56.1% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1248 |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 36.4% | — |
| MMLU | 36.4% | — |

## Multilingual

- DeepSeek Coder 6.7B: —
- Qwen Max: 42.0 (#197)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 6.7B | Qwen Max |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1263 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1254 |
| LMArena French | — | 1329 |
| LMArena German | — | 1254 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1205 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1141 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1274 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1290 |

## Instruction Following

- DeepSeek Coder 6.7B: —
- Qwen Max: 66.7 (#203)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 6.7B | Qwen Max |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1262 |

## Long Context

- DeepSeek Coder 6.7B: —
- Qwen Max: 39.4 (#175)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 6.7B | Qwen Max |
|---|---|---|
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 66.7% |
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1289 |

## Writing & Preference

- DeepSeek Coder 6.7B: —
- Qwen Max: 48.0 (#200)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 6.7B | Qwen Max |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1282 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1248 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1277 |

## FAQ

### Is DeepSeek Coder 6.7B better than Qwen Max?

Qwen Max has enough public results to be ranked (#226); DeepSeek Coder 6.7B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

### Is DeepSeek Coder 6.7B or Qwen Max better for coding?

DeepSeek Coder 6.7B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 35.2 versus 30.3 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do DeepSeek Coder 6.7B and Qwen Max share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. DeepSeek Coder 6.7B has 9 scored results on Noometry and Qwen Max has 23.