Head-to-head
deepseek-r1:14b vs Claude Sonnet 5
Both models answered the same one-shot tasks under identical rules — no retries, answers published unedited. Two separate axes, never blended: does the code actually run, and how do blind-scored text answers hold up against a written gold answer. Frontier references sit outside the blind field and are deliberately unscored on text.
| Model | Runnable sims | Blind text avg | Failure modes |
|---|---|---|---|
| deepseek-r1:14b | 14% (12/85) | 8.09 (32 scored) | ERR 55 · STAT 4 · BLANK 10 · HANG 1 · DNF 3 |
| Claude Sonnet 5 frontier reference | 100% (85/85) | unscored by design | — |
Biggest contrasts
Rounds where the two models diverged most — open them and read both answers side by side.
| Round | deepseek-r1:14b | Claude Sonnet 5 |
|---|---|---|
| R155 · Linked list with animated pointer relinking | BLANK | OK |
| R153 · Binary min-heap with bubble-up and sink-down | ERR | OK |
| R151 · Binary search tree growing node by node | ERR | OK |
| R140 · Water sloshing in a tilting container | ERR | OK |
| R139 · Small n-body system orbiting a central star | ERR | OK |
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Generated 2026-07-31 from the published rounds. Harness failures are excluded from every base — a broken cluster node is our fault, not the model's.