Model comparison

DeepSeek V4 Pro vs Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct

DeepSeek V4 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.3 to 30.6 on the Noometry Index. Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct costs 6.4× less per token, which makes it the better buy when DeepSeek V4 Pro's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Last verified . 27 shared benchmarks.

DeepSeek V4 Pro DeepSeek

54.3

Rank #31 Confirmed

Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct Meta

30.6

Rank #291 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 27 benchmarks with published results for both. DeepSeek V4 Pro scores higher in 9 categories and Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct in 0 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where DeepSeek V4 Pro leads 64.8 to 15.3.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 98.6% for DeepSeek V4 Pro and 5.1% for Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct.
  • Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct is cheaper at $0.10 / $0.32 per million input/output tokens, against $0.66 / $1.98 for DeepSeek V4 Pro.
  • DeepSeek V4 Pro accepts more context: 1M tokens versus 128K.

Side by side

DeepSeek V4 Pro and Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct specifications
DeepSeek V4 ProLlama-3.3-70B-Instruct
ProviderDeepSeekMeta
Noometry Index54.330.6
Released2026-04-242024-12-06
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window1M128K
Max output393K4K
Input $ / M tokens$0.66$0.10
Output $ / M tokens$1.98$0.32
Results tracked4843

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Category by category

Coding DeepSeek V4 Pro leads

DeepSeek V4 Pro: 52.4 (#34), Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct: 31.0 (#290)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek V4 ProLlama-3.3-70B-Instruct
SciCode51%26%
WeirdML66.2%14.4%
LMArena Coding14701268
SWE-bench Verified77.6%—
FrontierCode28.6%—
LMArena WebDev1582—
BigCodeBench Instruct—46.9%
LiveBench Coding—36.6%
BigCodeBench Complete—57.5%
ALE-Bench1,403—

Agentic & Tool Use DeepSeek V4 Pro leads

DeepSeek V4 Pro: 32.8 (#58), Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct: 25.8 (#105)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek V4 ProLlama-3.3-70B-Instruct
APEX-Agents47.3%—
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—31.9%
BALROG—23%
Vending-Bench 23,285—

Reasoning DeepSeek V4 Pro leads

DeepSeek V4 Pro: 56.5 (#24), Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct: 14.1 (#327)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek V4 ProLlama-3.3-70B-Instruct
CritPt18%0%
LMArena Hard Prompts14611257
DTBench93.9%59.5%
LMCA45.5%17.5%
Epoch Capabilities Index155.31127.33
ForecastBench56.158.6
ARC-AGI-261.3%—
SimpleBench—19.9%
Kagi LLM Benchmark53.5%—
NYT Connections (extended)91.3%—
ARC-AGI-190.5%—
Chess Puzzles47%—
LiveBench Reasoning—50.8%
Mystery Game Puzzles43%—
LiveBench Data Analysis—49.5%
Surface Evolver Bench40%—
LiveBench—50.2%

Math DeepSeek V4 Pro leads

DeepSeek V4 Pro: 64.8 (#30), Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct: 15.3 (#298)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek V4 ProLlama-3.3-70B-Instruct
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202598.6%5.1%
LMArena Math14551267
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)64.6%—
FrontierMath Tier 426.8%—
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions76.6%—
ProofBench50%—
LiveBench Math—42.2%
MATH Level 5—41.6%

Knowledge DeepSeek V4 Pro leads

DeepSeek V4 Pro: 59.5 (#31), Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct: 30.6 (#226)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek V4 ProLlama-3.3-70B-Instruct
GPQA Diamond91.7%47.4%
Vectara Hallucination Rate8.6%4.1%
LMArena Expert14641225
SimpleQA Verified52.9%—
Confabulations—22.8%
MMLU—86.3%

Multilingual DeepSeek V4 Pro leads

DeepSeek V4 Pro: 54.4 (#45), Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct: 39.9 (#220)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek V4 ProLlama-3.3-70B-Instruct
LMArena Non-English14391236
LMArena Chinese14861217
LMArena French14721281
LMArena German14581251
LMArena Japanese14451150
LMArena Korean14471143
LMArena Russian14531252
LMArena Spanish14581270

Instruction Following DeepSeek V4 Pro leads

DeepSeek V4 Pro: 76.1 (#47), Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct: 71.1 (#157)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek V4 ProLlama-3.3-70B-Instruct
LMArena Instruction Following14481242
LiveBench Instruction Following—82.7%

Long Context DeepSeek V4 Pro leads

DeepSeek V4 Pro: 45.0 (#51), Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct: 26.4 (#295)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek V4 ProLlama-3.3-70B-Instruct
LMArena Longer Query14581256
Fiction.LiveBench—33.3%
CL-bench Life13.5%—

Writing & Preference DeepSeek V4 Pro leads

DeepSeek V4 Pro: 65.5 (#46), Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct: 47.6 (#207)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek V4 ProLlama-3.3-70B-Instruct
LMArena Text14511274
LMArena Creative Writing14461250
LMArena Multi-Turn14671280
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1553—
EQ-Bench 41166—
LiveBench Language—39.2%

Frequently asked questions

Is DeepSeek V4 Pro better than Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct?

DeepSeek V4 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.3 to 30.6 on the Noometry Index. Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct costs 6.4× less per token, which makes it the better buy when DeepSeek V4 Pro's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Which is cheaper, DeepSeek V4 Pro or Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct?

Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct is cheaper. It lists at $0.10 per million input tokens and $0.32 per million output tokens; DeepSeek V4 Pro lists at $0.66 and $1.98.

Is DeepSeek V4 Pro or Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct better for coding?

DeepSeek V4 Pro scores higher on coding benchmarks: 52.4 versus 31.0 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

DeepSeek V4 Pro does, with 1M tokens against 128K.

How many benchmarks do DeepSeek V4 Pro and Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct share?

27 benchmarks have published results for both models. DeepSeek V4 Pro has 48 scored results on Noometry and Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct has 43.

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