Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
DeepSeek-V3 leads with 22.8% higher average benchmark score. DeepSeek-V3 offers 241.7K more tokens in context window than GPT-3.5 Turbo. DeepSeek-V3 is $0.63 cheaper per million tokens. Overall, DeepSeek-V3 is the stronger choice for coding tasks.
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.
OpenAI
GPT-3.5 Turbo was developed as an optimized version of GPT-3.5, designed to provide a balance of capability and efficiency for conversational and completion tasks. Built to serve as a cost-effective option for applications requiring reliable language understanding and generation, it became widely adopted for chatbots, content generation, and general-purpose AI assistance.
1 year newer

GPT-3.5 Turbo
OpenAI
2023-03-21

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

DeepSeek-V3

GPT-3.5 Turbo
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 3 common benchmarks

DeepSeek-V3

GPT-3.5 Turbo
GPT-3.5 Turbo
2021-09-30
Available providers and their performance metrics

DeepSeek-V3
DeepSeek

GPT-3.5 Turbo

DeepSeek-V3

GPT-3.5 Turbo

DeepSeek-V3

GPT-3.5 Turbo
Azure
OpenAI