Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
DeepSeek-V3 leads with 6.6% higher average benchmark score. Claude 3 Opus offers 137.9K more tokens in context window than DeepSeek-V3. DeepSeek-V3 is $88.63 cheaper per million tokens. Claude 3 Opus supports multimodal inputs. Claude 3 Opus is available on 3 providers. Overall, DeepSeek-V3 is the stronger choice for coding tasks.
Anthropic
Claude 3 Opus was developed as the most capable model in the Claude 3 family, designed to set new industry benchmarks across a wide range of cognitive tasks. Built to handle complex analysis and extended tasks requiring deep reasoning, it balanced frontier intelligence with careful safety considerations, representing the flagship tier of the Claude 3 generation.
DeepSeek
DeepSeek-V3 was introduced as a major architectural advancement, developed with 671B mixture-of-experts parameters and trained on 14.8 trillion tokens. Built to be three times faster than V2 while maintaining open-source availability, it demonstrates competitive performance against frontier closed-source models and represents a significant leap in efficient large-scale model design.
10 months newer

Claude 3 Opus
Anthropic
2024-02-29

DeepSeek-V3
DeepSeek
2024-12-25
Cost per million tokens (USD)

Claude 3 Opus

DeepSeek-V3
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 4 common benchmarks

Claude 3 Opus

DeepSeek-V3
Available providers and their performance metrics

Claude 3 Opus
Anthropic
Bedrock

Claude 3 Opus

DeepSeek-V3

Claude 3 Opus

DeepSeek-V3

DeepSeek-V3
DeepSeek