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DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 1.5B vs Gpt2

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Winner summary

DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 1.5B wins 4 of 6 shared benchmarks. Leads in general · language · math.

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Hype vs Reality
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 1.5B
#304 by perf·no signal
QUIET
Gpt2
#311 by perf·no signal
QUIET
Best value
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 1.5B
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Gpt2
n/a
no price
Vendor risk
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DeepSeek
$3.4B·Tier 1
Higher risk
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OpenAI
$840.0B·Tier 1
Medium risk
Head to head
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 1.5BGpt2
BBH (HuggingFace)
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 1.5B leads by +2.0
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 1.5B
4.7
Gpt2
2.7
GPQA
Gpt2 leads by +0.6
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 1.5B
0.8
Gpt2
1.3
IFEval
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 1.5B leads by +15.3
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 1.5B
34.6
Gpt2
19.3
MATH Level 5
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 1.5B leads by +16.6
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 1.5B
16.9
Gpt2
0.3
MMLU-PRO
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 1.5B leads by +0.4
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 1.5B
2.1
Gpt2
1.7
MUSR
Gpt2 leads by +10.0
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 1.5B
3.0
Gpt2
13.0
Full benchmark table
BenchmarkDeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 1.5BGpt2
BBH (HuggingFace)
4.72.7
GPQA
0.81.3
IFEval
34.619.3
MATH Level 5
16.90.3
MMLU-PRO
2.11.7
MUSR
3.013.0
Pricing · per 1M tokens · projected $/mo at 10M tokens
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