Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14B leads with 34.9% higher average benchmark score. Overall, DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14B is the stronger choice for coding tasks.
DeepSeek
DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-14B was developed as a mid-sized distilled variant based on Qwen, designed to balance reasoning capability with practical deployment considerations. Built to provide strong analytical performance while remaining accessible, it serves applications requiring reliable reasoning without flagship-scale resources.
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Qwen 2.5 Coder 7B was created as an efficient coding-specialized model, designed to bring strong programming capabilities to resource-conscious deployments. Built with 7 billion parameters optimized for code understanding and generation, it provides developers with a lightweight option for code-related tasks.
4 months newer

Qwen2.5-Coder 7B Instruct
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
2024-09-19

DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14B
DeepSeek
2025-01-20
Average performance across 1 common benchmarks

DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14B

Qwen2.5-Coder 7B Instruct
Available providers and their performance metrics

DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14B

Qwen2.5-Coder 7B Instruct

DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14B

Qwen2.5-Coder 7B Instruct