DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 1.5B vs Llama-3.3 Nemotron Super 49B v1 Comparison

Performance Benchmarks

Comparative analysis across standard metrics

2 benchmarks

DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 1.5B outperforms in 0 benchmarks, while Llama-3.3 Nemotron Super 49B v1 is better at 2 benchmarks (GPQA, MATH-500).

Llama-3.3 Nemotron Super 49B v1 significantly outperforms across most benchmarks.

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Arena Performance

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Pricing Analysis

Price comparison per million tokens

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DeepSeek
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 1.5B
Input tokens$0.00
Output tokens$0.00
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NVIDIA
Llama-3.3 Nemotron Super 49B v1
Input tokens$0.00
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Model Size

Parameter count comparison

48.1B diff

Llama-3.3 Nemotron Super 49B v1 has 48.1B more parameters than DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 1.5B, making it 2703.4% larger.

DeepSeek
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 1.5B
1.8Bparameters
NVIDIA
Llama-3.3 Nemotron Super 49B v1
49.9Bparameters
1.8B
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 1.5B
49.9B
Llama-3.3 Nemotron Super 49B v1

License

Usage and distribution terms

DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 1.5B is licensed under MIT, while Llama-3.3 Nemotron Super 49B v1 uses Llama 3.1 Community License.

License differences may affect how you can use these models in commercial or open-source projects.

DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 1.5B

MIT

Open weights

Llama-3.3 Nemotron Super 49B v1

Llama 3.1 Community License

Open weights

Release Timeline

When each model was launched

DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 1.5B was released on 2025-01-20, while Llama-3.3 Nemotron Super 49B v1 was released on 2025-03-18.

Llama-3.3 Nemotron Super 49B v1 is 2 months newer than DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 1.5B.

DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 1.5B

Jan 20, 2025

1.2 years ago

Llama-3.3 Nemotron Super 49B v1

Mar 18, 2025

12 months ago

1mo newer

Knowledge Cutoff

When training data ends

Llama-3.3 Nemotron Super 49B v1 has a documented knowledge cutoff of 2023-12-31, while DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 1.5B's cutoff date is not specified.

We can confirm Llama-3.3 Nemotron Super 49B v1's training data extends to 2023-12-31, but cannot make a direct comparison without DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 1.5B's cutoff date.

DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 1.5B

Llama-3.3 Nemotron Super 49B v1

Dec 2023

Outputs Comparison

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Key Takeaways

Higher GPQA score (66.7% vs 33.8%)
Higher MATH-500 score (96.6% vs 83.9%)

Detailed Comparison