# DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) vs Qwen2.5-Coder-32B

> Qwen2.5-Coder-32B has enough public results to be ranked (#245); DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/deepseek-v2-vs-qwen2-5-coder-32b
- Last updated: 2026-10-12
- Shared benchmarks: 7

## Summary

- They share 7 benchmarks with published results for both. DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) scores higher in 1 category and Qwen2.5-Coder-32B in 0 categories; one gap is clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in coding, where DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) leads 40.4 to 22.6.

## Snapshot

| | DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) | Qwen2.5-Coder-32B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | DeepSeek | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 40.3 | 33.4 |
| Rank | — | 245 |
| Context | — | 33K |
| Input $/M | — | $0.66 |
| Output $/M | — | $1 |
| Weights | Open | Open |

## Coding

- DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024): 40.4 (#139)
- Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 22.6 (#333)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) | Qwen2.5-Coder-32B |
|---|---|---|
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 48.9% | 49% |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 59.4% | 58% |
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | — | 9% |
| Aider Polyglot | — | 16.4% |
| LiveBench Coding | — | 56.9% |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1276 |
| HumanEval+ | — | 87.2% |
| MBPP+ | — | 77% |

## Reasoning

- DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024): —
- Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 21.2 (#225)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) | Qwen2.5-Coder-32B |
|---|---|---|
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 124.77 | 119.49 |
| HellaSwag | 87.1% | 83% |
| WinoGrande | 86.3% | 80.8% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | — | 42.1% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1251 |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | — | 49.9% |
| BIG-Bench Hard | 78.8% | — |
| LiveBench | — | 46.2% |
| PIQA | 83.9% | — |

## Math

- DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024): —
- Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 33.3 (#204)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) | Qwen2.5-Coder-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Math | — | 46.6% |
| LMArena Math | — | 1251 |
| GSM8K | — | 93% |

## Knowledge

- DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024): —
- Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 33.4 (#203)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) | Qwen2.5-Coder-32B |
|---|---|---|
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 92.2% | 70.5% |
| MMLU | 78.4% | 79.1% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1221 |
| TriviaQA | 80% | — |

## Multilingual

- DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024): —
- Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 37.8 (#235)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) | Qwen2.5-Coder-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1205 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1222 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1228 |

## Instruction Following

- DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024): —
- Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 61.4 (#245)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) | Qwen2.5-Coder-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Instruction Following | — | 58.7% |
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1223 |

## Long Context

- DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024): —
- Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 38.0 (#208)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) | Qwen2.5-Coder-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1251 |

## Writing & Preference

- DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024): —
- Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 41.6 (#240)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) | Qwen2.5-Coder-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1230 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1174 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1222 |
| LiveBench Language | — | 23.3% |

## FAQ

### Is DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) better than Qwen2.5-Coder-32B?

Qwen2.5-Coder-32B has enough public results to be ranked (#245); DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

### Is DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) or Qwen2.5-Coder-32B better for coding?

DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) scores higher on coding benchmarks: 40.4 versus 22.6 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) and Qwen2.5-Coder-32B share?

7 benchmarks have published results for both models. DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) has 10 scored results on Noometry and Qwen2.5-Coder-32B has 31.