# Deepseek Coder v2 vs QwQ-32B

> QwQ-32B is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.4 to 35.3 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/deepseek-coder-v2-vs-qwq-32b
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 19

## Summary

- They share 19 benchmarks with published results for both. Deepseek Coder v2 scores higher in 1 category and QwQ-32B in 7 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where QwQ-32B leads 50.9 to 38.4.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is BigCodeBench Complete: 59.7% for Deepseek Coder v2 and 54.4% for QwQ-32B.

## Snapshot

| | Deepseek Coder v2 | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | DeepSeek | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 35.3 | 39.4 |
| Rank | 217 | 153 |
| Context | — | — |
| Input $/M | — | — |
| Output $/M | — | — |
| Weights | Open | Open |

## Coding

- Deepseek Coder v2: 37.5 (#178)
- QwQ-32B: 34.9 (#220)

| Benchmark | Deepseek Coder v2 | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 48.2% | 44.6% |
| LMArena Coding | 1251 | 1333 |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 59.7% | 54.4% |
| Aider Polyglot | — | 20.9% |
| LiveBench Coding | — | 72.2% |
| HumanEval+ | 82.3% | — |
| MBPP+ | 75.1% | — |

## Reasoning

- Deepseek Coder v2: 22.6 (#175)
- QwQ-32B: 22.9 (#171)

| Benchmark | Deepseek Coder v2 | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1207 | 1326 |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 5% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | — | 83.5% |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | — | 65% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 137.6 |
| ForecastBench | — | 58.3 |
| LiveBench | — | 72% |
| WinoGrande | 83.7% | — |

## Math

- Deepseek Coder v2: 32.3 (#188)
- QwQ-32B: 36.2 (#123)

| Benchmark | Deepseek Coder v2 | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1241 | 1359 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 59.2% |
| LiveBench Math | — | 77.8% |
| GSM8K | 94.5% | — |

## Knowledge

- Deepseek Coder v2: 31.7 (#209)
- QwQ-32B: 37.2 (#150)

| Benchmark | Deepseek Coder v2 | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1181 | 1323 |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 65.3% |
| Confabulations | — | 15.6% |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 64.3% | — |

## Multilingual

- Deepseek Coder v2: 36.4 (#235)
- QwQ-32B: 45.0 (#171)

| Benchmark | Deepseek Coder v2 | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1182 | 1306 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1201 | 1378 |
| LMArena French | 1184 | 1337 |
| LMArena German | 1164 | 1313 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1126 | 1263 |
| LMArena Korean | 1104 | 1278 |
| LMArena Russian | 1188 | 1297 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1153 | 1353 |

## Instruction Following

- Deepseek Coder v2: 61.9 (#237)
- QwQ-32B: 72.8 (#131)

| Benchmark | Deepseek Coder v2 | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1180 | 1297 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | — | 81.8% |

## Long Context

- Deepseek Coder v2: 37.0 (#219)
- QwQ-32B: 49.0 (#11)

| Benchmark | Deepseek Coder v2 | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1219 | 1308 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 83.3% |

## Writing & Preference

- Deepseek Coder v2: 38.4 (#249)
- QwQ-32B: 50.9 (#175)

| Benchmark | Deepseek Coder v2 | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1191 | 1329 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1120 | 1288 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1176 | 1314 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | — | 80.2% |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 1257 |
| LiveBench Language | — | 51.4% |

## FAQ

### Is Deepseek Coder v2 better than QwQ-32B?

QwQ-32B is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.4 to 35.3 on the Noometry Index.

### Is Deepseek Coder v2 or QwQ-32B better for coding?

Deepseek Coder v2 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 37.5 versus 34.9 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do Deepseek Coder v2 and QwQ-32B share?

19 benchmarks have published results for both models. Deepseek Coder v2 has 24 scored results on Noometry and QwQ-32B has 36.