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Qwen 2.5 Coder 7B vs DeepSeek Coder 6.7B

Alibaba
Qwen 2.5 Coder 7B

Alibaba · 7.6B params · Quality: 50

DeepSeek
DeepSeek Coder 6.7B

DeepSeek · 6.7B params · Quality: 50

Architecture Comparison

SpecQwen 2.5 Coder 7BDeepSeek Coder 6.7B
TypeDENSEDENSE
Total Parameters7.6B6.7B
Active Parameters7.6B6.7B
Layers2832
Hidden Dimension3,5844,096
Attention Heads2832
KV Heads432
Context Length131,07216,384
Precision (default)BF16BF16

Memory Requirements

PrecisionQwen 2.5 Coder 7BDeepSeek Coder 6.7B
BF16 Weights15.2 GB13.4 GB
FP8 Weights7.6 GB6.7 GB
INT4 Weights3.8 GB3.4 GB
KV-Cache / Token57344 B524288 B
Activation Estimate0.80 GB0.80 GB

Minimum GPUs Needed (BF16)

H100 SXM1 GPU1 GPU
L40S1 GPU1 GPU

Capabilities

FeatureQwen 2.5 Coder 7BDeepSeek Coder 6.7B
Tool Use✗ No✗ No
Vision✗ No✗ No
Code✓ Yes✓ Yes
Math✓ Yes✓ Yes
Reasoning✗ No✗ No
Multilingual✗ No✗ No
Structured Output✓ Yes✗ No

API Pricing Comparison

Cheapest Output (Qwen 2.5 Coder 7B)

$0.20/M

Input: $0.20/M

Cheapest Output (DeepSeek Coder 6.7B)

$0.20/M

Input: $0.20/M

ProviderQwen 2.5 Coder 7B In $/MOut $/MDeepSeek Coder 6.7B In $/MOut $/M
together$0.20$0.20$0.20$0.20

Recommendation Summary

  • DeepSeek Coder 6.7B has a smaller memory footprint (13.4 GB vs 15.2 GB BF16), making it easier to deploy on fewer GPUs.
  • Qwen 2.5 Coder 7B supports a longer context window (131,072 vs 16,384 tokens).

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