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DeepSeek V3 vs Qwen2.5 Coder 32B Instruct
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Winner summary
DeepSeek V3 wins on 6/6 benchmarks
DeepSeek V3 wins 6 of 6 shared benchmarks. Leads in coding · knowledge · arena.
Category leads
coding·DeepSeek V3knowledge·DeepSeek V3arena·DeepSeek V3
Hype vs Reality
Attention vs performance
DeepSeek V3
#43 by perf·no signal
Qwen2.5 Coder 32B Instruct
#81 by perf·no signal
Best value
DeepSeek V3
1.5x better value than Qwen2.5 Coder 32B Instruct
DeepSeek V3
97.5 pts/$
$0.60/M
Qwen2.5 Coder 32B Instruct
64.0 pts/$
$0.83/M
Vendor risk
Mixed exposure
One or more vendors flagged
DeepSeek
$3.4B·Tier 1
Alibaba (Qwen)
$293.0B·Tier 1
Head to head
6 benchmarks · 2 models
DeepSeek V3Qwen2.5 Coder 32B Instruct
Aider polyglot
DeepSeek V3 leads by +32.0
Aider Polyglot · measures how well AI models can edit code across multiple programming languages using the Aider coding assistant framework.
DeepSeek V3
48.4
Qwen2.5 Coder 32B Instruct
16.4
ARC AI2
DeepSeek V3 leads by +33.1
AI2 Reasoning Challenge · tests grade-school level science knowledge with multiple-choice questions requiring reasoning beyond simple retrieval.
DeepSeek V3
93.7
Qwen2.5 Coder 32B Instruct
60.7
Chatbot Arena Elo · Overall
DeepSeek V3 leads by +88.2
DeepSeek V3
1358.2
Qwen2.5 Coder 32B Instruct
1269.9
HellaSwag
DeepSeek V3 leads by +7.9
HellaSwag · tests commonsense reasoning by asking models to predict the most plausible continuation of everyday scenarios.
DeepSeek V3
85.2
Qwen2.5 Coder 32B Instruct
77.3
MMLU
DeepSeek V3 leads by +10.8
Massive Multitask Language Understanding · 57 subjects spanning STEM, humanities, social sciences, and more. The standard benchmark for broad knowledge.
DeepSeek V3
82.9
Qwen2.5 Coder 32B Instruct
72.1
Winogrande
DeepSeek V3 leads by +8.8
WinoGrande · large-scale commonsense reasoning benchmark where models must resolve ambiguous pronouns in carefully constructed sentence pairs.
DeepSeek V3
70.4
Qwen2.5 Coder 32B Instruct
61.6
Full benchmark table
| Benchmark | DeepSeek V3 | Qwen2.5 Coder 32B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
Aider polyglot Aider Polyglot · measures how well AI models can edit code across multiple programming languages using the Aider coding assistant framework. | 48.4 | 16.4 |
ARC AI2 AI2 Reasoning Challenge · tests grade-school level science knowledge with multiple-choice questions requiring reasoning beyond simple retrieval. | 93.7 | 60.7 |
Chatbot Arena Elo · Overall | 1358.2 | 1269.9 |
HellaSwag HellaSwag · tests commonsense reasoning by asking models to predict the most plausible continuation of everyday scenarios. | 85.2 | 77.3 |
MMLU Massive Multitask Language Understanding · 57 subjects spanning STEM, humanities, social sciences, and more. The standard benchmark for broad knowledge. | 82.9 | 72.1 |
Winogrande WinoGrande · large-scale commonsense reasoning benchmark where models must resolve ambiguous pronouns in carefully constructed sentence pairs. | 70.4 | 61.6 |
Pricing · per 1M tokens · projected $/mo at 10M tokens
| Model | Input | Output | Context | Projected $/mo |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DeepSeek V3 | $0.32 | $0.89 | 164K tokens (~82 books) | $4.63 |
| Qwen2.5 Coder 32B Instruct | $0.66 | $1.00 | 33K tokens (~16 books) | $7.45 |