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DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 7B vs DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B
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Winner summary
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 7B wins on 6/11 benchmarks
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 7B wins 6 of 11 shared benchmarks. Leads in general · knowledge · reasoning.
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DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 7B
#210 by perf·no signal
DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B
#207 by perf·no signal
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DeepSeek
$3.4B·Tier 1
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$3.4B·Tier 1
Head to head
11 benchmarks · 2 models
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 7BDeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B
BBH (HuggingFace)
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 7B leads by +2.5
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 7B
7.9
DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B
5.3
GPQA
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 7B leads by +3.2
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 7B
3.9
DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B
0.7
IFEval
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 7B leads by +2.6
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 7B
40.4
DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B
37.8
MATH Level 5
DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B leads by +2.4
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 7B
19.6
DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B
22.0
MMLU-PRO
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 7B leads by +2.6
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 7B
14.7
DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B
12.1
MUSR
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 7B leads by +3.1
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 7B
3.5
DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B
0.5
JCommonsenseQA
DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B leads by +2.6
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 7B
59.8
DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B
62.4
JMMLU
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 7B leads by +4.5
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 7B
42.3
DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B
37.8
JNLI
DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B leads by +14.8
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 7B
54.6
DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B
69.4
JSQuAD
DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B leads by +6.0
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 7B
74.2
DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B
80.2
LLM-JP · Overall
DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B leads by +2.1
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 7B
39.3
DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B
41.4
Full benchmark table
| Benchmark | DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 7B | DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B |
|---|---|---|
BBH (HuggingFace) | 7.9 | 5.3 |
GPQA | 3.9 | 0.7 |
IFEval | 40.4 | 37.8 |
MATH Level 5 | 19.6 | 22.0 |
MMLU-PRO | 14.7 | 12.1 |
MUSR | 3.5 | 0.5 |
JCommonsenseQA | 59.8 | 62.4 |
JMMLU | 42.3 | 37.8 |
JNLI | 54.6 | 69.4 |
JSQuAD | 74.2 | 80.2 |
LLM-JP · Overall | 39.3 | 41.4 |
Pricing · per 1M tokens · projected $/mo at 10M tokens
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