Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
DeepSeek R1 Zero leads with 18.6% higher average benchmark score. Qwen2.5-Coder 32B Instruct is available on 4 providers. Overall, DeepSeek R1 Zero is the stronger choice for coding tasks.
DeepSeek
DeepSeek-R1-Zero was introduced as an experimental variant trained with minimal human supervision, designed to develop reasoning patterns through self-guided reinforcement learning. Built to explore how models can discover analytical strategies independently, it represents research into autonomous reasoning capability development.
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Qwen 2.5 Coder 32B was developed as a specialized coding model, designed to excel at programming tasks with 32 billion parameters specifically optimized for code. Built to understand and generate code across multiple programming languages, it serves developers requiring advanced code completion, debugging, and explanation capabilities.
4 months newer

Qwen2.5-Coder 32B Instruct
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
2024-09-19

DeepSeek R1 Zero
DeepSeek
2025-01-20
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 1 common benchmarks

DeepSeek R1 Zero

Qwen2.5-Coder 32B Instruct
Available providers and their performance metrics

DeepSeek R1 Zero

Qwen2.5-Coder 32B Instruct
DeepInfra

DeepSeek R1 Zero

Qwen2.5-Coder 32B Instruct

DeepSeek R1 Zero

Qwen2.5-Coder 32B Instruct
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