DeepSeek-Coder 8B on LiveCodeBench: score, rank and what it means
DeepSeek-Coder 8B scores 48.0 on LiveCodeBench, placing it #466 of 600 models in the index. The benchmark average is 61.0 and the leader is Claude Sonnet 4.5 Reasoning at 85.1.
Score distribution
The chart shows the top 10 models on LiveCodeBench, with DeepSeek-Coder 8B highlighted. Longer bars mean higher scores.
Top 10 leaderboard
| # | Model | Provider | Context | Input / 1M | Avg score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Claude Sonnet 4.5 Reasoning | Anthropic | 400000 | $19.48 | 87.7 |
| 2 | Grok 4 Reasoning | xAI | 2000000 | $19.67 | 87.8 |
| 3 | Claude Opus 4.5 | Anthropic | 400000 | $19.42 | 87.7 |
| 4 | GPT-5.2 Max | OpenAI | 1000000 | $21.39 | 89.2 |
| 5 | Grok 4 Turbo | xAI | 1000000 | $19.21 | 86.7 |
| 6 | GPT-5.1 Turbo | OpenAI | 2000000 | $19.19 | 86.1 |
| 7 | GPT-5.2 Pro | OpenAI | 2000000 | $21.32 | 89.6 |
| 8 | GPT-5.2 Reasoning | OpenAI | 1000000 | $20.98 | 87.5 |
| 9 | Claude Opus 4.5 Pro | Anthropic | 200000 | $20.98 | 89.1 |
| 10 | Gemini 3 Pro Max | Google DeepMind | 2000000 | $20.57 | 87.9 |
What this score means
On LiveCodeBench, DeepSeek-Coder 8B sits at #466 of 600. The leader, Claude Sonnet 4.5 Reasoning, scores 85.1, so the gap to the top is 37.1 points. The median model in this index scores 64.7, which puts DeepSeek-Coder 8B below the midpoint.
DeepSeek models average 63.4 on this benchmark. DeepSeek-Coder 8B is 15.4 points below that provider line, so it is a weaker result than the average DeepSeek model.
Among coding models, the average is 59.3. DeepSeek-Coder 8B is 11.3 points below that group. This is the more useful comparison if you are shortlisting within the same tier rather than across the whole index.
Read a 48.0 as a relative signal, not an absolute guarantee. Benchmark scores depend on prompt format, evaluation harness and contamination controls. Use this page to narrow the shortlist, then test the model on your own data.
Price context
At $1.26 per million input tokens, DeepSeek-Coder 8B is below the median input price of $4.00 across the 600 models scored on LiveCodeBench. The models immediately around it in the ranking are shown below so you can compare score and price together.
| Model | Provider | Context | Input / 1M | Avg score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DeepSeek-Coder 7B | DeepSeek | 32768 | $1.14 | 57.3 |
| Qwen3-Coder 7B | Alibaba Cloud | 32768 | $1.24 | 59.6 |
| Llama 3 Replicate 8B | Replicate | 32768 | $1.00 | 57.0 |
| Codestral 7B | Mistral AI | 32768 | $1.05 | 57.0 |
| DeepSeek-Coder 8B | DeepSeek | 32768 | $1.26 | 58.7 |
| Nemotron 4 7B | NVIDIA | 16384 | $1.05 | 56.9 |
| Zephyr Base | Hugging Face | 4096 | $1.26 | 59.5 |
Other benchmarks for DeepSeek-Coder 8B
| Benchmark | Score | Rank | Percentile | Relative |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MMLU-Pro | 63.2 | 485 | 19th | |
| GPQA Diamond | 54.0 | 481 | 20th | |
| SWE-bench Verified | 44.3 | 472 | 21th | |
| HumanEval | 63.5 | 455 | 24th | |
| MATH-500 | 59.3 | 473 | 21th | |
| AIME 2025 | 51.2 | 447 | 26th | |
| IFEval | 68.9 | 474 | 21th | |
| TruthfulQA | 62.3 | 497 | 17th | |
| HellaSwag | 73.0 | 481 | 20th | |
| MMMU | 57.9 | 458 | 24th | |
| Arena Elo | 1260.4 | 474 | 21th |
FAQ
What score does DeepSeek-Coder 8B get on LiveCodeBench?
DeepSeek-Coder 8B scores 48.0 on LiveCodeBench in this index. The benchmark average is 61.0 and the top score is 85.1.
How does DeepSeek-Coder 8B rank on LiveCodeBench?
It ranks #466 of 600 models, in the 22nd percentile. The leader is Claude Sonnet 4.5 Reasoning at 85.1.
Is DeepSeek-Coder 8B good at LiveCodeBench?
It is below the median for this benchmark, so test it carefully before relying on it for this capability. The result should be read alongside its price and context window.
How is the LiveCodeBench score calculated?
LiveCodeBench is a coding benchmark. Scores in this index are modelled estimates on a 0–100 scale (or Elo for Arena), derived from capability tier and benchmark difficulty. They are not official leaderboard results.
What does DeepSeek-Coder 8B cost?
DeepSeek-Coder 8B costs $1.26 per million input tokens and $6.25 per million output tokens.