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DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 1.5B vs Gpt2
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Winner summary
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 1.5B wins on 4/6 benchmarks
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 1.5B wins 4 of 6 shared benchmarks. Leads in general · language · math.
Category leads
general·DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 1.5Bknowledge·Gpt2language·DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 1.5Bmath·DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 1.5Breasoning·Gpt2
Hype vs Reality
Attention vs performance
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 1.5B
#268 by perf·no signal
Gpt2
#274 by perf·no signal
Vendor risk
Mixed exposure
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DeepSeek
$3.4B·Tier 1
OpenAI
$840.0B·Tier 1
Head to head
6 benchmarks · 2 models
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 1.5BGpt2
BBH (HuggingFace)
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 1.5B leads by +2.1
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 1.5B
4.7
Gpt2
2.7
GPQA
Gpt2 leads by +0.3
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 1.5B
0.8
Gpt2
1.1
IFEval
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 1.5B leads by +16.7
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 1.5B
34.6
Gpt2
17.9
MATH Level 5
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 1.5B leads by +16.7
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 1.5B
16.9
Gpt2
0.2
MMLU-PRO
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 1.5B leads by +0.3
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 1.5B
2.1
Gpt2
1.8
MUSR
Gpt2 leads by +12.4
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 1.5B
3.0
Gpt2
15.3
Full benchmark table
| Benchmark | DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 1.5B | Gpt2 |
|---|---|---|
BBH (HuggingFace) | 4.7 | 2.7 |
GPQA | 0.8 | 1.1 |
IFEval | 34.6 | 17.9 |
MATH Level 5 | 16.9 | 0.2 |
MMLU-PRO | 2.1 | 1.8 |
MUSR | 3.0 | 15.3 |
Pricing · per 1M tokens · projected $/mo at 10M tokens
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