Model comparison

DeepSeek Coder 1.3B vs GPT-5.6 Sol

GPT-5.6 Sol has enough public results to be ranked (#7); DeepSeek Coder 1.3B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Last verified . 1 shared benchmarks.

DeepSeek Coder 1.3B DeepSeek

35.0

Unranked Sparse

GPT-5.6 Sol OpenAI

65.0

Rank #7 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 1 benchmark with published results for both. DeepSeek Coder 1.3B scores higher in 0 categories and GPT-5.6 Sol in 1 category; one gap is clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in coding, where GPT-5.6 Sol leads 65.1 to 31.2.
  • DeepSeek Coder 1.3B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

DeepSeek Coder 1.3B and GPT-5.6 Sol specifications
DeepSeek Coder 1.3BGPT-5.6 Sol
ProviderDeepSeekOpenAI
Noometry Index35.065.0
Released2023-11-022026-07-09
WeightsOpenProprietary
Context window—1.05M
Max output—128K
Input $ / M tokens—$4
Output $ / M tokens—$20
Results tracked965

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Category by category

Coding GPT-5.6 Sol leads

DeepSeek Coder 1.3B: 31.2 (#287), GPT-5.6 Sol: 65.1 (#7)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek Coder 1.3BGPT-5.6 Sol
DeepSWE—72.7%
FrontierCode—47.5%
CursorBench—41.7%
LMArena WebDev—1618
FrontierSWE—32.2%
SciCode—57.1%
GSO—76.5%
WeirdML—89.4%
BigCodeBench Instruct22.8%—
LMArena Coding—1498
MirrorCode—20%
BigCodeBench Complete29.6%—
ALE-Bench—2,177
HumanEval+60.4%—
MBPP+54.8%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

DeepSeek Coder 1.3B: —, GPT-5.6 Sol: 50.3 (#7)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek Coder 1.3BGPT-5.6 Sol
APEX-Agents—51.4%
OSWorld 2.0—27.3%
τ²-bench Banking—46.9%
PostTrainBench—36.2%
BALROG—60%
GBAEval—52.6%
GDP.pdf—30.7%
LMArena Search—1257
Vending-Bench 2—9,619

Reasoning Not comparable

DeepSeek Coder 1.3B: —, GPT-5.6 Sol: 74.8 (#8)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek Coder 1.3BGPT-5.6 Sol
Epoch Capabilities Index63.6161.66
ARC-AGI-2—92.5%
SimpleBench—71.7%
Kagi LLM Benchmark—67%
NYT Connections (extended)—93.8%
ARC-AGI-1—97.5%
CritPt—32.3%
Chess Puzzles—64%
EnigmaEval—37.1%
EBR-Bench—44.8%
LMArena Hard Prompts—1484
Mystery Game Puzzles—58%
DTBench—96%
LMCA—59.2%
Surface Evolver Bench—93.1%
Bench to the Future 3—0.14
WinoGrande53.3%—

Math Not comparable

DeepSeek Coder 1.3B: —, GPT-5.6 Sol: 85.6 (#9)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek Coder 1.3BGPT-5.6 Sol
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)—89.1%
FrontierMath Tier 4—82.9%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—100%
ProofBench—83%
LMArena Math—1474
FrontierMath Erdős—0%
GSM8K4.4%—

Knowledge Not comparable

DeepSeek Coder 1.3B: —, GPT-5.6 Sol: 64.3 (#18)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek Coder 1.3BGPT-5.6 Sol
GPQA Diamond—93.5%
SimpleQA Verified—69.7%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—12.4%
LMArena Expert—1516
ARC (AI2) Challenge25.4%—
MMLU25.8%—

Multimodal Not comparable

DeepSeek Coder 1.3B: —, GPT-5.6 Sol: 48.6 (#9)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek Coder 1.3BGPT-5.6 Sol
LMArena Vision—1281
Blueprint-Bench 2—33.6%
Furniture Assembly—56.7%
LMArena Document—1483

Multilingual Not comparable

DeepSeek Coder 1.3B: —, GPT-5.6 Sol: 55.3 (#32)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek Coder 1.3BGPT-5.6 Sol
LMArena Non-English—1452
LMArena Chinese—1527
LMArena French—1477
LMArena German—1476
LMArena Japanese—1471
LMArena Korean—1442
LMArena Russian—1468
LMArena Spanish—1441

Instruction Following Not comparable

DeepSeek Coder 1.3B: —, GPT-5.6 Sol: 77.7 (#16)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek Coder 1.3BGPT-5.6 Sol
LMArena Instruction Following—1482

Long Context Not comparable

DeepSeek Coder 1.3B: —, GPT-5.6 Sol: 45.4 (#42)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek Coder 1.3BGPT-5.6 Sol
LMArena Longer Query—1480

Writing & Preference Not comparable

DeepSeek Coder 1.3B: —, GPT-5.6 Sol: 73.3 (#12)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek Coder 1.3BGPT-5.6 Sol
LMArena Text—1457
LMArena Creative Writing—1448
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—1972
EQ-Bench 4—1250
LMArena Multi-Turn—1460

Frequently asked questions

Is DeepSeek Coder 1.3B better than GPT-5.6 Sol?

GPT-5.6 Sol has enough public results to be ranked (#7); DeepSeek Coder 1.3B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Is DeepSeek Coder 1.3B or GPT-5.6 Sol better for coding?

GPT-5.6 Sol scores higher on coding benchmarks: 65.1 versus 31.2 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do DeepSeek Coder 1.3B and GPT-5.6 Sol share?

1 benchmark has published results for both models. DeepSeek Coder 1.3B has 9 scored results on Noometry and GPT-5.6 Sol has 65.

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