Noometry

Model comparison

Deepseek Coder v2 vs Qwen3.6 Max Preview

Qwen3.6 Max Preview is the stronger model overall, scoring 51.5 to 35.9 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 14 shared benchmarks.

Deepseek Coder v2 DeepSeek

35.9

Rank #220 Confirmed

Qwen3.6 Max Preview Alibaba (Qwen)

51.5

Rank #43 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 14 benchmarks with published results for both. Deepseek Coder v2 scores higher in 0 categories and Qwen3.6 Max Preview in 8 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Qwen3.6 Max Preview leads 63.8 to 38.2.
  • Deepseek Coder v2 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Deepseek Coder v2Qwen3.6 Max Preview
ProviderDeepSeekAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index35.951.5
Released2024-06-172026-04-20
WeightsOpenProprietary
Context window—262K
Max output—66K
Input $ / M tokens—$1.30
Output $ / M tokens—$7.80
Results tracked2429

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Category by category

Coding Qwen3.6 Max Preview leads

Deepseek Coder v2: 38.1 (#183), Qwen3.6 Max Preview: 48.7 (#54)

BenchmarkDeepseek Coder v2Qwen3.6 Max Preview
LMArena Coding12511471
SWE-bench Verified—76.7%
LMArena WebDev—1482
BigCodeBench Instruct48.2%—
BigCodeBench Complete59.7%—
HumanEval+82.3%—
MBPP+75.1%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Deepseek Coder v2: —, Qwen3.6 Max Preview: —

BenchmarkDeepseek Coder v2Qwen3.6 Max Preview
Vending-Bench 2—4,254

Reasoning Qwen3.6 Max Preview leads

Deepseek Coder v2: 23.6 (#176), Qwen3.6 Max Preview: 41.7 (#53)

BenchmarkDeepseek Coder v2Qwen3.6 Max Preview
LMArena Hard Prompts12071457
SimpleBench—63%
NYT Connections (extended)—74.1%
Chess Puzzles—20%
Mystery Game Puzzles—19%
DTBench—87.2%
LMCA—42.5%
Epoch Capabilities Index—149.24
WinoGrande83.7%—

Math Qwen3.6 Max Preview leads

Deepseek Coder v2: 34.9 (#190), Qwen3.6 Max Preview: 54.1 (#46)

BenchmarkDeepseek Coder v2Qwen3.6 Max Preview
LMArena Math12411465
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—91.1%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—23.1%
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)—4.2%
GSM8K94.5%—

Knowledge Qwen3.6 Max Preview leads

Deepseek Coder v2: 32.3 (#212), Qwen3.6 Max Preview: 57.6 (#39)

BenchmarkDeepseek Coder v2Qwen3.6 Max Preview
LMArena Expert11811478
GPQA Diamond—87.4%
SimpleQA Verified—52%
ARC (AI2) Challenge64.3%—

Multilingual Qwen3.6 Max Preview leads

Deepseek Coder v2: 36.3 (#240), Qwen3.6 Max Preview: 54.2 (#48)

BenchmarkDeepseek Coder v2Qwen3.6 Max Preview
LMArena Non-English11821437
LMArena Chinese12011487
LMArena French11851449
LMArena Russian11881445
LMArena Spanish11531454
LMArena German1164—
LMArena Japanese1126—
LMArena Korean1104—

Instruction Following Qwen3.6 Max Preview leads

Deepseek Coder v2: 61.7 (#242), Qwen3.6 Max Preview: 75.7 (#55)

BenchmarkDeepseek Coder v2Qwen3.6 Max Preview
LMArena Instruction Following11801438

Long Context Qwen3.6 Max Preview leads

Deepseek Coder v2: 37.0 (#224), Qwen3.6 Max Preview: 44.6 (#61)

BenchmarkDeepseek Coder v2Qwen3.6 Max Preview
LMArena Longer Query12191457

Writing & Preference Qwen3.6 Max Preview leads

Deepseek Coder v2: 38.2 (#253), Qwen3.6 Max Preview: 63.8 (#60)

BenchmarkDeepseek Coder v2Qwen3.6 Max Preview
LMArena Text11911447
LMArena Creative Writing11201435
LMArena Multi-Turn11771456

Frequently asked questions

Is Deepseek Coder v2 better than Qwen3.6 Max Preview?

Qwen3.6 Max Preview is the stronger model overall, scoring 51.5 to 35.9 on the Noometry Index.

Is Deepseek Coder v2 or Qwen3.6 Max Preview better for coding?

Qwen3.6 Max Preview scores higher on coding benchmarks: 48.7 versus 38.1 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Deepseek Coder v2 and Qwen3.6 Max Preview share?

14 benchmarks have published results for both models. Deepseek Coder v2 has 24 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3.6 Max Preview has 29.

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