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Deepseek Coder v2 vs DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B

DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.8 to 35.9 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 2 shared benchmarks.

Deepseek Coder v2 DeepSeek

35.9

Rank #220 Confirmed

DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B DeepSeek

37.8

Rank #195 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 2 benchmarks with published results for both. Deepseek Coder v2 scores higher in 2 categories and DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B in 4 categories; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B leads 49.0 to 38.2.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is BigCodeBench Instruct: 48.2% for Deepseek Coder v2 and 35.3% for DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B.

Side by side

Deepseek Coder v2DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B
ProviderDeepSeekDeepSeek
Noometry Index35.937.8
Released2024-06-172025-01-20
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window——
Max output——
Input $ / M tokens——
Output $ / M tokens——
Results tracked2413

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Category by category

Coding Deepseek Coder v2 leads

Deepseek Coder v2: 38.1 (#183), DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B: 36.8 (#202)

BenchmarkDeepseek Coder v2DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B
BigCodeBench Instruct48.2%35.3%
BigCodeBench Complete59.7%49.9%
LiveBench Coding—51.6%
LMArena Coding1251—
HumanEval+82.3%—
MBPP+75.1%—

Reasoning DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B leads

Deepseek Coder v2: 23.6 (#176), DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B: 24.9 (#156)

BenchmarkDeepseek Coder v2DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B
Kagi LLM Benchmark—52.3%
LiveBench Reasoning—67.6%
LMArena Hard Prompts1207—
LiveBench Data Analysis—55.9%
LiveBench—54.5%
WinoGrande83.7%—

Math DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B leads

Deepseek Coder v2: 34.9 (#190), DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B: 36.0 (#176)

BenchmarkDeepseek Coder v2DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—51.4%
LiveBench Math—58.1%
LMArena Math1241—
MATH Level 5—89.9%
GSM8K94.5%—

Knowledge Deepseek Coder v2 leads

Deepseek Coder v2: 32.3 (#212), DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B: 30.7 (#225)

BenchmarkDeepseek Coder v2DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B
GPQA Diamond—55.7%
LMArena Expert1181—
ARC (AI2) Challenge64.3%—

Multilingual Not comparable

Deepseek Coder v2: 36.3 (#240), DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B: —

BenchmarkDeepseek Coder v2DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B
LMArena Non-English1182—
LMArena Chinese1201—
LMArena French1185—
LMArena German1164—
LMArena Japanese1126—
LMArena Korean1104—
LMArena Russian1188—
LMArena Spanish1153—

Instruction Following DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B leads

Deepseek Coder v2: 61.7 (#242), DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B: 68.2 (#190)

BenchmarkDeepseek Coder v2DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B
LiveBench Instruction Following—69.9%
LMArena Instruction Following1180—

Long Context Not comparable

Deepseek Coder v2: 37.0 (#224), DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B: —

BenchmarkDeepseek Coder v2DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B
LMArena Longer Query1219—

Writing & Preference DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B leads

Deepseek Coder v2: 38.2 (#253), DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B: 49.0 (#194)

BenchmarkDeepseek Coder v2DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B
LMArena Text1191—
LMArena Creative Writing1120—
LMArena Multi-Turn1177—
LiveBench Language—23.8%

Frequently asked questions

Is Deepseek Coder v2 better than DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B?

DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.8 to 35.9 on the Noometry Index.

Is Deepseek Coder v2 or DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B better for coding?

Deepseek Coder v2 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 38.1 versus 36.8 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Deepseek Coder v2 and DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B share?

2 benchmarks have published results for both models. Deepseek Coder v2 has 24 scored results on Noometry and DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B has 13.

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