# DeepSeek-V3 vs Gemma 2 9B

> DeepSeek-V3 is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.2 to 25.7 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/deepseek-v3-vs-gemma-2-9b
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 33

## Summary

- They share 33 benchmarks with published results for both. DeepSeek-V3 scores higher in 7 categories and Gemma 2 9B in 1 category; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in knowledge, where DeepSeek-V3 leads 37.5 to 9.7.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is MATH Level 5: 75.5% for DeepSeek-V3 and 21% for Gemma 2 9B.

## Snapshot

| | DeepSeek-V3 | Gemma 2 9B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | DeepSeek | Google |
| Noometry Index | 39.2 | 25.7 |
| Rank | 157 | 334 |
| Context | 164K | — |
| Input $/M | $0.24 | — |
| Output $/M | $0.90 | — |
| Weights | Open | Open |

## Coding

- DeepSeek-V3: 41.9 (#99)
- Gemma 2 9B: 29.0 (#299)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek-V3 | Gemma 2 9B |
|---|---|---|
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 50% | 34.7% |
| LiveBench Coding | 70.9% | 22.5% |
| LMArena Coding | 1368 | 1174 |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 62.2% | 40.6% |
| Aider Polyglot | 55.1% | — |
| SciCode | 35.8% | — |
| WeirdML | 36.1% | — |
| HumanEval+ | 86.6% | — |
| MBPP+ | 73% | — |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- DeepSeek-V3: —
- Gemma 2 9B: —

| Benchmark | DeepSeek-V3 | Gemma 2 9B |
|---|---|---|
| METR Time Horizons | 49.6% | — |

## Reasoning

- DeepSeek-V3: 20.0 (#226)
- Gemma 2 9B: 15.3 (#306)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek-V3 | Gemma 2 9B |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Reasoning | 65.8% | 15.2% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1365 | 1172 |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 60.9% | 36.4% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 135.95 | 119.78 |
| LiveBench | 66.9% | 28.7% |
| PIQA | 84.7% | 83.7% |
| SimpleBench | 27.2% | — |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 52.3% | — |
| CritPt | 0% | — |
| DTBench | 64.8% | — |
| LMCA | 15.5% | — |
| BIG-Bench Hard | 87.5% | — |
| ForecastBench | 59.1 | — |
| HellaSwag | 88.9% | — |
| WinoGrande | 85.2% | — |

## Math

- DeepSeek-V3: 30.4 (#208)
- Gemma 2 9B: 9.3 (#312)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek-V3 | Gemma 2 9B |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 37.8% | 0.6% |
| LiveBench Math | 73.5% | 19.8% |
| LMArena Math | 1373 | 1183 |
| MATH Level 5 | 75.5% | 21% |
| Omni-MATH | 40.3% | — |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 1.7% | — |
| GSM8K | — | 84.9% |

## Knowledge

- DeepSeek-V3: 37.5 (#147)
- Gemma 2 9B: 9.7 (#300)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek-V3 | Gemma 2 9B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 67.6% | 27.5% |
| LMArena Expert | 1352 | 1147 |
| MMLU | 87.2% | 72.1% |
| MMLU-Pro | 72.3% | — |
| Confabulations | 26.1% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 6.1% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 53.8% | — |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 95.3% | — |
| BoolQ | — | 85.7% |
| TriviaQA | 82.9% | — |

## Multilingual

- DeepSeek-V3: 48.8 (#138)
- Gemma 2 9B: 36.8 (#233)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek-V3 | Gemma 2 9B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1358 | 1188 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1390 | 1185 |
| LMArena French | 1386 | 1189 |
| LMArena German | 1374 | 1186 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1333 | 1144 |
| LMArena Korean | 1321 | 1137 |
| LMArena Russian | 1372 | 1200 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1358 | 1200 |

## Instruction Following

- DeepSeek-V3: 73.0 (#125)
- Gemma 2 9B: 57.8 (#264)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek-V3 | Gemma 2 9B |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 81.5% | 52.6% |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1345 | 1178 |
| IFEval | 83.2% | — |

## Long Context

- DeepSeek-V3: 34.0 (#248)
- Gemma 2 9B: 36.3 (#228)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek-V3 | Gemma 2 9B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1353 | 1197 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | 50% | — |

## Writing & Preference

- DeepSeek-V3: 57.6 (#124)
- Gemma 2 9B: 32.3 (#276)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek-V3 | Gemma 2 9B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1375 | 1207 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1364 | 1206 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1472 | 841 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1389 | 1193 |
| LiveBench Language | 49.1% | 25.5% |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 77% | — |
| WildBench | 83% | — |

## FAQ

### Is DeepSeek-V3 better than Gemma 2 9B?

DeepSeek-V3 is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.2 to 25.7 on the Noometry Index.

### Is DeepSeek-V3 or Gemma 2 9B better for coding?

DeepSeek-V3 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 41.9 versus 29.0 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do DeepSeek-V3 and Gemma 2 9B share?

33 benchmarks have published results for both models. DeepSeek-V3 has 60 scored results on Noometry and Gemma 2 9B has 35.