Model comparison

DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-32B vs Qwen Max

DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-32B and Qwen Max score almost the same on the Noometry Index (35.5 vs 34.7), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Last verified October 10, 2026. 2 shared benchmarks.

DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-32B

DeepSeek

35.5

Rank #226 Confirmed

Qwen Max

Alibaba (Qwen)

34.7

Rank #230 Confirmed

Summary

They share 2 benchmarks with published results for both. DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-32B scores higher in 4 categories and Qwen Max in 2 categories; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
The widest gap is in math, where DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-32B leads 34.5 to 22.3.
The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 55.6% for DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-32B and 16.1% for Qwen Max.
DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-32B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-32B and Qwen Max specifications
	DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-32B	Qwen Max
Provider	DeepSeek	Alibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index	35.5	34.7
Released	2025-01-20	2024-04-03
Weights	Open	Proprietary
Context window	—	33K
Max output	—	8K
Input $ / M tokens	—	$1.60
Output $ / M tokens	—	$6.40
Results tracked	14	23

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Category by category

Coding DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-32B leads

DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-32B: 36.1 (#212), Qwen Max: 30.7 (#292)

Coding benchmarks
Benchmark	DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-32B	Qwen Max
Aider Polyglot	—	21.8%
BigCodeBench Instruct	43.9%	—
LiveBench Coding	33.7%	—
LMArena Coding	—	1288
BigCodeBench Complete	54.9%	—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-32B: 28.1 (#94), Qwen Max: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
Benchmark	DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-32B	Qwen Max
BALROG	19.5%	—

Reasoning Qwen Max leads

DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-32B: 18.2 (#284), Qwen Max: 25.1 (#151)

Reasoning benchmarks
Benchmark	DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-32B	Qwen Max
Chess Puzzles	1%	—
LiveBench Reasoning	52.3%	—
LMArena Hard Prompts	—	1269
LiveBench Data Analysis	45.4%	—
Epoch Capabilities Index	137.44	—
LiveBench	45.5%	—

Math DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-32B leads

DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-32B: 34.5 (#194), Qwen Max: 22.3 (#276)

Math benchmarks
Benchmark	DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-32B	Qwen Max
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025	55.6%	16.1%
LiveBench Math	59.4%	—
LMArena Math	—	1275
MATH Level 5	—	67.2%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)	—	1%

Knowledge DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-32B leads

DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-32B: 35.7 (#182), Qwen Max: 30.3 (#228)

Knowledge benchmarks
Benchmark	DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-32B	Qwen Max
GPQA Diamond	64.1%	56.1%
LMArena Expert	—	1248

Multilingual Not comparable

DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-32B: —, Qwen Max: 41.8 (#202)

Multilingual benchmarks
Benchmark	DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-32B	Qwen Max
LMArena Non-English	—	1263
LMArena Chinese	—	1254
LMArena French	—	1330
LMArena German	—	1254
LMArena Japanese	—	1205
LMArena Korean	—	1142
LMArena Russian	—	1274
LMArena Spanish	—	1290

Instruction Following Qwen Max leads

DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-32B: 61.6 (#243), Qwen Max: 66.5 (#208)

Instruction Following benchmarks
Benchmark	DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-32B	Qwen Max
LiveBench Instruction Following	55.7%	—
LMArena Instruction Following	—	1262

Long Context Not comparable

DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-32B: —, Qwen Max: 39.4 (#180)

Long Context benchmarks
Benchmark	DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-32B	Qwen Max
Fiction.LiveBench	—	66.7%
LMArena Longer Query	—	1288

Writing & Preference DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-32B leads

DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-32B: 49.6 (#188), Qwen Max: 47.8 (#205)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
Benchmark	DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-32B	Qwen Max
LMArena Text	—	1282
LMArena Creative Writing	—	1248
LMArena Multi-Turn	—	1277
LiveBench Language	26.8%	—

Frequently asked questions

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