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Gpt2 vs DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 1.5B

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Winner summary

DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 1.5B wins 4 of 6 shared benchmarks. Leads in general · language · math.

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Hype vs Reality
Gpt2
#274 by perf·no signal
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DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 1.5B
#268 by perf·no signal
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Best value
Gpt2
no price
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 1.5B
no price
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OpenAI
$840.0B·Tier 1
Medium risk
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DeepSeek
$3.4B·Tier 1
Higher risk
Head to head
Gpt2DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 1.5B
BBH (HuggingFace)
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 1.5B leads by +2.1
Gpt2
2.7
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 1.5B
4.7
GPQA
Gpt2 leads by +0.3
Gpt2
1.1
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 1.5B
0.8
IFEval
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 1.5B leads by +16.7
Gpt2
17.9
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 1.5B
34.6
MATH Level 5
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 1.5B leads by +16.7
Gpt2
0.2
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 1.5B
16.9
MMLU-PRO
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 1.5B leads by +0.3
Gpt2
1.8
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 1.5B
2.1
MUSR
Gpt2 leads by +12.4
Gpt2
15.3
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 1.5B
3.0
Full benchmark table
BenchmarkGpt2DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 1.5B
BBH (HuggingFace)
2.74.7
GPQA
1.10.8
IFEval
17.934.6
MATH Level 5
0.216.9
MMLU-PRO
1.82.1
MUSR
15.33.0
Pricing · per 1M tokens · projected $/mo at 10M tokens
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