Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Claude Opus 4 leads with 25.5% higher average benchmark score. Claude Opus 4 offers 65.9K more tokens in context window than DeepSeek-V3. DeepSeek-V3 is $88.63 cheaper per million tokens. Claude Opus 4 supports multimodal inputs. Claude Opus 4 is available on 4 providers. Overall, Claude Opus 4 is the stronger choice for coding tasks.
Anthropic
Claude Opus 4 was developed as the flagship model in the Claude 4 generation, designed to push the boundaries of AI capability in complex reasoning, analysis, and multi-step problem-solving. Built to handle the most demanding enterprise tasks, it represents Anthropic's highest tier of intelligence and capability.
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.
4 months newer

DeepSeek-V3
DeepSeek
2024-12-25

Claude Opus 4
Anthropic
2025-05-22
Cost per million tokens (USD)

Claude Opus 4

DeepSeek-V3
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 2 common benchmarks

Claude Opus 4

DeepSeek-V3
Performance comparison across key benchmark categories

Claude Opus 4

DeepSeek-V3
Available providers and their performance metrics

Claude Opus 4
Anthropic
Bedrock
ZeroEval

Claude Opus 4

DeepSeek-V3

Claude Opus 4

DeepSeek-V3

DeepSeek-V3
DeepSeek