DeepSeek Coder 2.0 vs Granite-4.0-350M

Side-by-side benchmark comparison across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, and math workflows.

Agentic
Coding
Multimodal & Grounded
Reasoning
Knowledge
Instruction Following
Multilingual
Mathematics

DeepSeek Coder 2.0· Granite-4.0-350M

Quick Verdict

Pick DeepSeek Coder 2.0 if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Granite-4.0-350M only becomes the better choice if you want the cheaper token bill.

DeepSeek Coder 2.0 is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 62 to 27. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.

DeepSeek Coder 2.0's sharpest advantage is in multilingual, where it averages 79.8 against 16.2. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is MGSM, 83% to 16.2%.

DeepSeek Coder 2.0 is also the more expensive model on tokens at $0.27 input / $1.10 output per 1M tokens, versus $0.00 input / $0.00 output per 1M tokens for Granite-4.0-350M. That is roughly Infinityx on output cost alone. DeepSeek Coder 2.0 gives you the larger context window at 128K, compared with 32K for Granite-4.0-350M.

Operational tradeoffs

ProviderDeepSeekIBM
Price$0.27 / $1.10Free*
SpeedN/AN/A
TTFTN/AN/A
Context128K32K

Decision framing

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Runtime metrics show N/A when BenchLM does not have a sourced snapshot for that exact model. The scoring rules and freshness policy are documented on the methodology page.

BenchmarkDeepSeek Coder 2.0Granite-4.0-350M
Agentic
Terminal-Bench 2.073%
BrowseComp62%
OSWorld-Verified65%
Coding
HumanEval82%38%
SWE-bench Verified51%
LiveCodeBench45%
SWE-bench Pro61%
Multimodal & Grounded
MMMU-Pro50%
OfficeQA Pro69%
Reasoning
MuSR76%
BBH84%33.3%
LongBench v273%
MRCRv271%
KnowledgeDeepSeek Coder 2.0 wins
MMLU80%36.2%
GPQA79%26.1%
SuperGPQA77%
MMLU-Pro73%14.4%
HLE14%
FrontierScience72%
SimpleQA78%
Instruction FollowingDeepSeek Coder 2.0 wins
IFEval86%61.6%
MultilingualDeepSeek Coder 2.0 wins
MGSM83%16.2%
MMLU-ProX78%
Mathematics
AIME 202381%
AIME 202483%
AIME 202582%
HMMT Feb 202377%
HMMT Feb 202479%
HMMT Feb 202578%
BRUMO 202580%
MATH-50081%
Frequently Asked Questions (4)

Which is better, DeepSeek Coder 2.0 or Granite-4.0-350M?

DeepSeek Coder 2.0 is ahead overall, 62 to 27. The biggest single separator in this matchup is MGSM, where the scores are 83% and 16.2%.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, DeepSeek Coder 2.0 or Granite-4.0-350M?

DeepSeek Coder 2.0 has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 61.1 versus 18.5. Inside this category, MMLU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for instruction following, DeepSeek Coder 2.0 or Granite-4.0-350M?

DeepSeek Coder 2.0 has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 86 versus 61.6. Inside this category, IFEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for multilingual tasks, DeepSeek Coder 2.0 or Granite-4.0-350M?

DeepSeek Coder 2.0 has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 79.8 versus 16.2. Inside this category, MGSM is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: March 31, 2026

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