# Deepseek Coder v2 vs GPT-6 Astra

> GPT-6 Astra is the stronger model overall, scoring 70.8 to 35.9 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/deepseek-coder-v2-vs-gpt-6-astra
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 17

## Summary

- They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. Deepseek Coder v2 scores higher in 0 categories and GPT-6 Astra in 8 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in reasoning, where GPT-6 Astra leads 85.1 to 23.6.
- Deepseek Coder v2 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Deepseek Coder v2 | GPT-6 Astra |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | DeepSeek | OpenAI |
| Noometry Index | 35.9 | 70.8 |
| Rank | 220 | 1 |
| Context | — | 1.05M |
| Input $/M | — | $10 |
| Output $/M | — | $50 |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |

## Coding

- Deepseek Coder v2: 38.1 (#183)
- GPT-6 Astra: 73.7 (#2)

| Benchmark | Deepseek Coder v2 | GPT-6 Astra |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1251 | 1487 |
| DeepSWE | — | 74.1% |
| FrontierCode | — | 53.3% |
| LMArena WebDev | — | 1786 |
| FrontierSWE | — | 65.5% |
| SciCode | — | 56.5% |
| GSO | — | 79.4% |
| WeirdML | — | 93.6% |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 48.2% | — |
| MirrorCode | — | 46.7% |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 59.7% | — |
| ALE-Bench | — | 2,951 |
| HumanEval+ | 82.3% | — |
| MBPP+ | 75.1% | — |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Deepseek Coder v2: —
- GPT-6 Astra: 52.9 (#3)

| Benchmark | Deepseek Coder v2 | GPT-6 Astra |
|---|---|---|
| APEX-Agents | — | 64.7% |
| Remote Labor Index | — | 20.8% |
| BALROG | — | 68.3% |
| GDP.pdf | — | 34.2% |
| Vending-Bench 2 | — | 15,515 |

## Reasoning

- Deepseek Coder v2: 23.6 (#176)
- GPT-6 Astra: 85.1 (#1)

| Benchmark | Deepseek Coder v2 | GPT-6 Astra |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1207 | 1462 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | — | 95% |
| NYT Connections (extended) | — | 98.1% |
| ARC-AGI-1 | — | 98.5% |
| CritPt | — | 31.7% |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 72% |
| EBR-Bench | — | 76.2% |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | — | 84% |
| DTBench | — | 97.3% |
| LMCA | — | 64.4% |
| Bench to the Future 3 | — | 0.14 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 166.45 |
| WinoGrande | 83.7% | — |

## Math

- Deepseek Coder v2: 34.9 (#190)
- GPT-6 Astra: 93.5 (#2)

| Benchmark | Deepseek Coder v2 | GPT-6 Astra |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1241 | 1465 |
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | — | 93.7% |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 | — | 97.6% |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 100% |
| ProofBench | — | 99% |
| FrontierMath Erdős | — | 2.9% |
| GSM8K | 94.5% | — |

## Knowledge

- Deepseek Coder v2: 32.3 (#212)
- GPT-6 Astra: 75.3 (#1)

| Benchmark | Deepseek Coder v2 | GPT-6 Astra |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1181 | 1483 |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 95.8% |
| Humanity's Last Exam | — | 54.8% |
| SimpleQA Verified | — | 75.6% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 8.7% |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 64.3% | — |

## Multimodal

- Deepseek Coder v2: —
- GPT-6 Astra: 55.0 (#3)

| Benchmark | Deepseek Coder v2 | GPT-6 Astra |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | — | 1281 |
| Blueprint-Bench 2 | — | 49.7% |
| Furniture Assembly | — | 80% |
| LMArena Document | — | 1468 |

## Multilingual

- Deepseek Coder v2: 36.3 (#240)
- GPT-6 Astra: 53.7 (#61)

| Benchmark | Deepseek Coder v2 | GPT-6 Astra |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1182 | 1430 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1201 | 1484 |
| LMArena French | 1185 | 1456 |
| LMArena German | 1164 | 1440 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1126 | 1379 |
| LMArena Korean | 1104 | 1426 |
| LMArena Russian | 1188 | 1436 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1153 | 1407 |

## Instruction Following

- Deepseek Coder v2: 61.7 (#242)
- GPT-6 Astra: 76.3 (#44)

| Benchmark | Deepseek Coder v2 | GPT-6 Astra |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1180 | 1450 |

## Long Context

- Deepseek Coder v2: 37.0 (#224)
- GPT-6 Astra: 44.5 (#62)

| Benchmark | Deepseek Coder v2 | GPT-6 Astra |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1219 | 1456 |

## Writing & Preference

- Deepseek Coder v2: 38.2 (#253)
- GPT-6 Astra: 75.3 (#7)

| Benchmark | Deepseek Coder v2 | GPT-6 Astra |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1191 | 1441 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1120 | 1418 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1177 | 1448 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 2173 |

## FAQ

### Is Deepseek Coder v2 better than GPT-6 Astra?

GPT-6 Astra is the stronger model overall, scoring 70.8 to 35.9 on the Noometry Index.

### Is Deepseek Coder v2 or GPT-6 Astra better for coding?

GPT-6 Astra scores higher on coding benchmarks: 73.7 versus 38.1 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do Deepseek Coder v2 and GPT-6 Astra share?

17 benchmarks have published results for both models. Deepseek Coder v2 has 24 scored results on Noometry and GPT-6 Astra has 56.