Comparison
Qwen2.5 Coder 32B vs DeepSeek Coder V2
Side-by-side specs, benchmarks and hosted-inference pricing.
Side A
Qwen2.5 Coder 32BAlibaba · Qwen
Coding-specialised Qwen2.5 32B fine-tune. GPT-4o-class on HumanEval and BigCodeBench at the time of release. Trained on additional code-heavy data with extended pre-training. Apache 2.0. Natural pick for self-hosted coding assistants, code-review automation, and any agent loop that primarily writes code.
Side B
DeepSeek Coder V2DeepSeek · DeepSeek
Coding-focused MoE model with 21B active parameters out of 236B total. Supports 338 programming languages with strong performance across mainstream stacks (Python, TypeScript, Go, Rust, Java, C++) and competent results on niche languages where most open models falter. The DeepSeek licence applies — commercial use permitted with some application restrictions.
Specs
| Parameters | 32B | 236B |
| Context length | 128K | 128K |
| Modality | text | text |
| Released | 2024-11-12 | 2024-06-17 |
| License | Apache 2.0 | DeepSeek License |
| Commercial use | Yes | Yes |
| VRAM fp16 | 64 GB | 472 GB |
| VRAM Q4 | 19.2 GB | 141.6 GB |
Benchmarks
| BigCodeBench | 38.3 | 33.7 |
| HumanEval | 92.7 | 90.2 |
| LiveCodeBench | 31.4 | 24.3 |
| MATH | 65.0 | 75.7 |
| MMLU | 75.1 | 79.2 |
Cheapest hosted pricing
Qwen2.5 Coder 32B
openrouter: $0.66 in / $1.00 out per 1M tokens
DeepSeek Coder V2
No provider currently lists a public price for this model — see the model page for details.