# DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp vs Gemma 2B

> DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp is the stronger model overall, scoring 44.3 to 29.6 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/deepseek-v3-2-exp-vs-gemma-2b
- Last updated: 2026-10-11
- Shared benchmarks: 12

## Summary

- They share 12 benchmarks with published results for both. DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp scores higher in 7 categories and Gemma 2B in 0 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp leads 62.4 to 24.0.

## Snapshot

| | DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp | Gemma 2B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | DeepSeek | Google |
| Noometry Index | 44.3 | 29.6 |
| Rank | 78 | 307 |
| Context | 164K | — |
| Input $/M | $0.26 | — |
| Output $/M | $0.38 | — |
| Weights | Open | Open |

## Coding

- DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp: 46.5 (#65)
- Gemma 2B: 29.4 (#305)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp | Gemma 2B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1454 | 1010 |
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | 70% | — |
| Aider Polyglot | 74.2% | — |
| LMArena WebDev | 1362 | — |
| SWE-bench Multilingual | 59% | — |
| SciCode | 38.9% | — |
| WeirdML | 39.5% | — |
| HumanEval+ | — | 20.7% |
| MBPP+ | — | 34.1% |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp: 32.7 (#59)
- Gemma 2B: —

| Benchmark | DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp | Gemma 2B |
|---|---|---|
| Terminal-Bench | 39.6% | — |
| APEX-Agents | 21.3% | — |
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 56.7% | — |
| TheAgentCompany | 42.9% | — |
| Vending-Bench 2 | 1,034 | — |

## Reasoning

- DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp: 22.1 (#208)
- Gemma 2B: 18.8 (#275)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp | Gemma 2B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1434 | 989 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 146.27 | 94.2 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 4% | — |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 52.2% | — |
| NYT Connections (extended) | 36.7% | — |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 57% | — |
| CritPt | 2.9% | — |
| Chess Puzzles | 14% | — |
| Thematic Generalization | 65% | — |
| DTBench | 87.7% | — |
| LMCA | 29.1% | — |
| BIG-Bench Hard | — | 35.2% |
| HellaSwag | — | 71.4% |
| PIQA | — | 77.3% |
| WinoGrande | — | 65.4% |

## Math

- DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp: 41.7 (#87)
- Gemma 2B: 30.0 (#239)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp | Gemma 2B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1435 | 1009 |
| MathArena Final-Answer Competitions | 57.7% | — |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 87.8% | — |
| ProofBench | 8% | — |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 22.1% | — |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1) | 2.1% | — |
| GSM8K | — | 17.7% |

## Knowledge

- DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp: 51.7 (#66)
- Gemma 2B: —

| Benchmark | DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp | Gemma 2B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 83.4% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 5.3% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1436 | — |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | — | 42.1% |
| BoolQ | — | 69.4% |
| MMLU | — | 42.3% |
| TriviaQA | — | 53.2% |

## Multilingual

- DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp: 52.2 (#90)
- Gemma 2B: 23.0 (#294)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp | Gemma 2B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1409 | 958 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1461 | 986 |
| LMArena Russian | 1424 | 937 |
| LMArena French | 1433 | — |
| LMArena German | 1440 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1374 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1371 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1440 | — |

## Instruction Following

- DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp: 74.5 (#93)
- Gemma 2B: 48.5 (#302)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp | Gemma 2B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1413 | 970 |

## Long Context

- DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp: 47.6 (#16)
- Gemma 2B: 29.9 (#291)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp | Gemma 2B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1428 | 981 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | 83.3% | — |
| CL-bench | 13.2% | — |
| CL-bench Life | 9.5% | — |

## Writing & Preference

- DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp: 62.4 (#77)
- Gemma 2B: 24.0 (#308)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp | Gemma 2B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1425 | 1002 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1403 | 987 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1427 | 945 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1515 | — |

## FAQ

### Is DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp better than Gemma 2B?

DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp is the stronger model overall, scoring 44.3 to 29.6 on the Noometry Index.

### Is DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp or Gemma 2B better for coding?

DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp scores higher on coding benchmarks: 46.5 versus 29.4 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp and Gemma 2B share?

12 benchmarks have published results for both models. DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp has 49 scored results on Noometry and Gemma 2B has 23.