DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-1.5B vs QwQ 32B Preview
Wins 0 of 4 areas
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Wins 4 of 4 areas
Coding · Reasoning · Long documents · Following instructions
QwQ 32B Preview is the stronger all-rounder.
Scores updated · 13 tests both models report · How we compare
Where each one wins
Tests won in each of the four areas where both have results. Each piece is one test, so a longer bar means more evidence; grey means the two scored within a point of each other.
Coding, long documents and following instructions rest on a single test each.
What it costs
Prices per million tokens, roughly 750,000 words. The bars show the cost of a million tokens read plus a million written.
The biggest differences
The tests each model wins by the widest margin, up to three each. Scores are out of 100.
Where QwQ 32B Preview pulls ahead
- Graduate-level biology, physics and chemistry questionsGPQA Diamond+49.5points ahead
- Code for real scientific research problemsSciCode+29.2points ahead
- Follows unfamiliar, precisely checkable instructionsIFBench+25.6points ahead
Where DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-1.5B pulls ahead
No clear win on a test scored out of 100.
Every test, side by side
All 13 tests both models report. The winning score is in its model's colour; marks a score checked independently.
ReasoningQwQ 32B Preview
- GPQA DiamondQwQ 32B Preview by 49.59.859.3+49.5
- Humanity's Last ExamQwQ 32B Preview by 4.33.17.3+4.3
Following instructionsQwQ 32B Preview
- IFBenchQwQ 32B Preview by 25.613.238.8+25.6
Other results8 tests, not counted
Tests outside the eight areas. They are not counted above: several are summary scores built from other tests, or the same test under another name.
- Codeforces (Rating)QwQ 32B Preview by 362 rating points9541316+362 rating
- LiveCodeBenchQwQ 32B Preview by 33.116.950+33.1
- MMLU-ProQwQ 32B Preview by 252752+25
- AIME 2024QwQ 32B Preview by 21.128.950+21.1
- AIME 2025QwQ 32B Preview by 13.32033.3+13.3
- MATH-500 (EM)QwQ 32B Preview by 6.783.990.6+6.7
- HMMT Feb. 2025QwQ 32B Preview by 6.611.718.3+6.6
- AA IntelligenceQwQ 32B Preview by 45.59.5+4
Questions people ask
Which is better, DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-1.5B or QwQ 32B Preview?
QwQ 32B Preview wins all four areas where both have results: coding, reasoning, long documents and following instructions. DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-1.5B wins none.
Which is better for coding?
QwQ 32B Preview. It wins the one coding test both models report.
How do you compare the two?
We use the 13 benchmark tests both models have published scores on. The verdict counts the 5 tests in the eight capability areas, and a gap under one point (ten on rating-style scales) counts as a tie. The other 8 are listed but not counted, because several are summary scores or repeat a test. Each score is the one shown on the model's own page.