Model comparison

DeepSeek V4 Pro vs Qwen2.5-Coder-32B

DeepSeek V4 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.3 to 33.4 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 13 shared benchmarks.

DeepSeek V4 Pro DeepSeek

54.3

Rank #31 Confirmed

Qwen2.5-Coder-32B Alibaba (Qwen)

33.4

Rank #245 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 13 benchmarks with published results for both. DeepSeek V4 Pro scores higher in 8 categories and Qwen2.5-Coder-32B in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where DeepSeek V4 Pro leads 56.5 to 21.2.
  • Qwen2.5-Coder-32B is cheaper at $0.66 / $1 per million input/output tokens, against $0.66 / $1.98 for DeepSeek V4 Pro.
  • DeepSeek V4 Pro accepts more context: 1M tokens versus 33K.

Side by side

DeepSeek V4 Pro and Qwen2.5-Coder-32B specifications
DeepSeek V4 ProQwen2.5-Coder-32B
ProviderDeepSeekAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index54.333.4
Released2026-04-242024-09-18
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window1M33K
Max output393K29K
Input $ / M tokens$0.66$0.66
Output $ / M tokens$1.98$1
Results tracked4831

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Category by category

Coding DeepSeek V4 Pro leads

DeepSeek V4 Pro: 52.4 (#34), Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 22.6 (#333)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek V4 ProQwen2.5-Coder-32B
LMArena Coding14701276
SWE-bench Verified77.6%—
FrontierCode28.6%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)—9%
Aider Polyglot—16.4%
LMArena WebDev1582—
SciCode51%—
WeirdML66.2%—
BigCodeBench Instruct—49%
LiveBench Coding—56.9%
BigCodeBench Complete—58%
ALE-Bench1,403—
HumanEval+—87.2%
MBPP+—77%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

DeepSeek V4 Pro: 32.8 (#58), Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek V4 ProQwen2.5-Coder-32B
APEX-Agents47.3%—
Vending-Bench 23,285—

Reasoning DeepSeek V4 Pro leads

DeepSeek V4 Pro: 56.5 (#24), Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 21.2 (#225)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek V4 ProQwen2.5-Coder-32B
LMArena Hard Prompts14611251
Epoch Capabilities Index155.31119.49
ARC-AGI-261.3%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark53.5%—
NYT Connections (extended)91.3%—
ARC-AGI-190.5%—
CritPt18%—
Chess Puzzles47%—
LiveBench Reasoning—42.1%
Mystery Game Puzzles43%—
DTBench93.9%—
LiveBench Data Analysis—49.9%
LMCA45.5%—
Surface Evolver Bench40%—
ForecastBench56.1—
HellaSwag—83%
LiveBench—46.2%
WinoGrande—80.8%

Math DeepSeek V4 Pro leads

DeepSeek V4 Pro: 64.8 (#30), Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 33.3 (#204)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek V4 ProQwen2.5-Coder-32B
LMArena Math14551251
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)64.6%—
FrontierMath Tier 426.8%—
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions76.6%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202598.6%—
ProofBench50%—
LiveBench Math—46.6%
GSM8K—93%

Knowledge DeepSeek V4 Pro leads

DeepSeek V4 Pro: 59.5 (#31), Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 33.4 (#203)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek V4 ProQwen2.5-Coder-32B
LMArena Expert14641221
GPQA Diamond91.7%—
SimpleQA Verified52.9%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate8.6%—
ARC (AI2) Challenge—70.5%
MMLU—79.1%

Multilingual DeepSeek V4 Pro leads

DeepSeek V4 Pro: 54.4 (#45), Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 37.8 (#235)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek V4 ProQwen2.5-Coder-32B
LMArena Non-English14391205
LMArena Chinese14861222
LMArena Russian14531228
LMArena French1472—
LMArena German1458—
LMArena Japanese1445—
LMArena Korean1447—
LMArena Spanish1458—

Instruction Following DeepSeek V4 Pro leads

DeepSeek V4 Pro: 76.1 (#47), Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 61.4 (#245)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek V4 ProQwen2.5-Coder-32B
LMArena Instruction Following14481223
LiveBench Instruction Following—58.7%

Long Context DeepSeek V4 Pro leads

DeepSeek V4 Pro: 45.0 (#51), Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 38.0 (#208)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek V4 ProQwen2.5-Coder-32B
LMArena Longer Query14581251
CL-bench Life13.5%—

Writing & Preference DeepSeek V4 Pro leads

DeepSeek V4 Pro: 65.5 (#46), Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 41.6 (#240)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek V4 ProQwen2.5-Coder-32B
LMArena Text14511230
LMArena Creative Writing14461174
LMArena Multi-Turn14671222
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1553—
EQ-Bench 41166—
LiveBench Language—23.3%

Frequently asked questions

Is DeepSeek V4 Pro better than Qwen2.5-Coder-32B?

DeepSeek V4 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.3 to 33.4 on the Noometry Index.

Which is cheaper, DeepSeek V4 Pro or Qwen2.5-Coder-32B?

Qwen2.5-Coder-32B is cheaper. It lists at $0.66 per million input tokens and $1 per million output tokens; DeepSeek V4 Pro lists at $0.66 and $1.98.

Is DeepSeek V4 Pro or Qwen2.5-Coder-32B better for coding?

DeepSeek V4 Pro scores higher on coding benchmarks: 52.4 versus 22.6 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

DeepSeek V4 Pro does, with 1M tokens against 33K.

How many benchmarks do DeepSeek V4 Pro and Qwen2.5-Coder-32B share?

13 benchmarks have published results for both models. DeepSeek V4 Pro has 48 scored results on Noometry and Qwen2.5-Coder-32B has 31.

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