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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 4 of 6 shared benchmarks. Leads in general · language · math.

Category leads
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Hype vs Reality
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 1.5B
#268 by perf·no signal
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Gpt2
#274 by perf·no signal
QUIET
Best value
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 1.5B
no price
Gpt2
no price
Vendor risk
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DeepSeek
$3.4B·Tier 1
Higher risk
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OpenAI
$840.0B·Tier 1
Medium risk
Head to head
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
BenchmarkDeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 1.5BGpt2
BBH (HuggingFace)
4.72.7
GPQA
0.81.1
IFEval
34.617.9
MATH Level 5
16.90.2
MMLU-PRO
2.11.8
MUSR
3.015.3
Pricing · per 1M tokens · projected $/mo at 10M tokens
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