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DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14B vs Qwen2-72B

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Winner summary

DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14B wins 5 of 8 shared benchmarks. Leads in language · math · reasoning.

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Hype vs Reality
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14B
#107 by perf·no signal
QUIET
Qwen2-72B
#203 by perf·#2 by attention
OVERHYPED
Best value
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14B
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no price
Qwen2-72B
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no price
Vendor risk
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DeepSeek logo
DeepSeek
$3.4B·Tier 1
Higher risk
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Alibaba (Qwen)
$293.0B·Tier 1
Low risk
Head to head
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14BQwen2-72B
GPQA diamond
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14B leads by +5.2
Graduate-Level Google-Proof QA (Diamond set) · expert-crafted questions in physics, biology, and chemistry that are difficult even for domain PhDs.
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14B
26.3
Qwen2-72B
21.0
BBH (HuggingFace)
Qwen2-72B leads by +11.2
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14B
40.7
Qwen2-72B
51.9
GPQA
Qwen2-72B leads by +0.9
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14B
18.3
Qwen2-72B
19.2
IFEval
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14B leads by +5.6
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14B
43.8
Qwen2-72B
38.2
MATH Level 5
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14B leads by +25.9
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14B
57.0
Qwen2-72B
31.1
MMLU-PRO
Qwen2-72B leads by +11.8
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14B
40.7
Qwen2-72B
52.6
MUSR
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14B leads by +9.0
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14B
28.7
Qwen2-72B
19.7
MATH level 5
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14B leads by +48.1
MATH Level 5 · the hardest tier of the MATH benchmark, featuring competition-level problems from AMC, AIME, and Olympiad-style mathematics.
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14B
87.1
Qwen2-72B
39.1
Full benchmark table
BenchmarkDeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14BQwen2-72B
GPQA diamond
Graduate-Level Google-Proof QA (Diamond set) · expert-crafted questions in physics, biology, and chemistry that are difficult even for domain PhDs.
26.321.0
BBH (HuggingFace)
40.751.9
GPQA
18.319.2
IFEval
43.838.2
MATH Level 5
57.031.1
MMLU-PRO
40.752.6
MUSR
28.719.7
MATH level 5
MATH Level 5 · the hardest tier of the MATH benchmark, featuring competition-level problems from AMC, AIME, and Olympiad-style mathematics.
87.139.1
Pricing · per 1M tokens · projected $/mo at 10M tokens
ModelInputOutputContextProjected $/mo
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