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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 6 of 11 shared benchmarks. Leads in general · knowledge · reasoning.

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Hype vs Reality
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 7B
#210 by perf·no signal
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DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B
#207 by perf·no signal
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Head to head
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
BenchmarkDeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 7BDeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B
BBH (HuggingFace)
7.95.3
GPQA
3.90.7
IFEval
40.437.8
MATH Level 5
19.622.0
MMLU-PRO
14.712.1
MUSR
3.50.5
JCommonsenseQA
59.862.4
JMMLU
42.337.8
JNLI
54.669.4
JSQuAD
74.280.2
LLM-JP · Overall
39.341.4
Pricing · per 1M tokens · projected $/mo at 10M tokens
ModelInputOutputContextProjected $/mo
DeepSeek logoDeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 7B
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