Model comparison

Claude 3 Opus vs DeepSeek V4 Pro

DeepSeek V4 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.3 to 29.5 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 26 shared benchmarks.

Claude 3 Opus Anthropic

29.5

Rank #310 Confirmed

DeepSeek V4 Pro DeepSeek

54.3

Rank #31 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 26 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3 Opus scores higher in 0 categories and DeepSeek V4 Pro in 9 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where DeepSeek V4 Pro leads 64.8 to 14.8.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 4.7% for Claude 3 Opus and 98.6% for DeepSeek V4 Pro.
  • DeepSeek V4 Pro has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude 3 Opus and DeepSeek V4 Pro specifications
Claude 3 OpusDeepSeek V4 Pro
ProviderAnthropicDeepSeek
Noometry Index29.554.3
Released2024-02-292026-04-24
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window—1M
Max output—393K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.66
Output $ / M tokens—$1.98
Results tracked4648

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Category by category

Coding DeepSeek V4 Pro leads

Claude 3 Opus: 32.9 (#267), DeepSeek V4 Pro: 52.4 (#34)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusDeepSeek V4 Pro
WeirdML19.2%66.2%
LMArena Coding12641470
SWE-bench Verified—77.6%
FrontierCode—28.6%
LMArena WebDev—1582
SciCode—51%
BigCodeBench Instruct45.5%—
LiveBench Coding38.6%—
BigCodeBench Complete57.4%—
ALE-Bench—1,403
HumanEval+77.4%—
MBPP+73.3%—

Agentic & Tool Use DeepSeek V4 Pro leads

Claude 3 Opus: 24.6 (#116), DeepSeek V4 Pro: 32.8 (#58)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusDeepSeek V4 Pro
APEX-Agents—47.3%
Cybench10%—
METR Time Horizons29.5%—
Vending-Bench 2—3,285

Reasoning DeepSeek V4 Pro leads

Claude 3 Opus: 14.6 (#324), DeepSeek V4 Pro: 56.5 (#24)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusDeepSeek V4 Pro
Chess Puzzles5%47%
LMArena Hard Prompts12451461
DTBench61.6%93.9%
LMCA17%45.5%
Epoch Capabilities Index126.91155.31
ForecastBench58.456.1
ARC-AGI-2—61.3%
SimpleBench23.5%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark—53.5%
NYT Connections (extended)—91.3%
ARC-AGI-1—90.5%
CritPt—18%
EnigmaEval0.8%—
LiveBench Reasoning40.6%—
Mystery Game Puzzles—43%
LiveBench Data Analysis57.9%—
Surface Evolver Bench—40%
LiveBench49.2%—
WinoGrande88.5%—

Math DeepSeek V4 Pro leads

Claude 3 Opus: 14.8 (#299), DeepSeek V4 Pro: 64.8 (#30)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusDeepSeek V4 Pro
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20254.7%98.6%
LMArena Math12731455
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)—64.6%
FrontierMath Tier 4—26.8%
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions—76.6%
ProofBench—50%
LiveBench Math43.6%—
MATH Level 537.5%—

Knowledge DeepSeek V4 Pro leads

Claude 3 Opus: 24.5 (#267), DeepSeek V4 Pro: 59.5 (#31)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusDeepSeek V4 Pro
GPQA Diamond47.2%91.7%
SimpleQA Verified12.6%52.9%
LMArena Expert12231464
Confabulations22.7%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate—8.6%
MMLU84.6%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude 3 Opus: 27.1 (#116), DeepSeek V4 Pro: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusDeepSeek V4 Pro
LMArena Vision1023—

Multilingual DeepSeek V4 Pro leads

Claude 3 Opus: 41.4 (#207), DeepSeek V4 Pro: 54.4 (#45)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusDeepSeek V4 Pro
LMArena Non-English12581439
LMArena Chinese12481486
LMArena French12751472
LMArena German12581458
LMArena Japanese12041445
LMArena Korean11871447
LMArena Russian12801453
LMArena Spanish12461458

Instruction Following DeepSeek V4 Pro leads

Claude 3 Opus: 64.1 (#228), DeepSeek V4 Pro: 76.1 (#47)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusDeepSeek V4 Pro
LMArena Instruction Following12481448
LiveBench Instruction Following63.9%—

Long Context DeepSeek V4 Pro leads

Claude 3 Opus: 38.2 (#202), DeepSeek V4 Pro: 45.0 (#51)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusDeepSeek V4 Pro
LMArena Longer Query12591458
CL-bench Life—13.5%

Writing & Preference DeepSeek V4 Pro leads

Claude 3 Opus: 47.2 (#213), DeepSeek V4 Pro: 65.5 (#46)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusDeepSeek V4 Pro
LMArena Text12621451
LMArena Creative Writing12351446
LMArena Multi-Turn12751467
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—1553
EQ-Bench 4—1166
LiveBench Language50.4%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude 3 Opus better than DeepSeek V4 Pro?

DeepSeek V4 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.3 to 29.5 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude 3 Opus or DeepSeek V4 Pro better for coding?

DeepSeek V4 Pro scores higher on coding benchmarks: 52.4 versus 32.9 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude 3 Opus and DeepSeek V4 Pro share?

26 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3 Opus has 46 scored results on Noometry and DeepSeek V4 Pro has 48.

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