Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
DeepSeek-V3 leads with 12.1% higher average benchmark score. DeepSeek-V3 offers 196.6K more tokens in context window than GPT-4. DeepSeek-V3 is $88.63 cheaper per million tokens. GPT-4 supports multimodal inputs. 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-4 was created as a large multimodal model capable of accepting image and text inputs while producing text outputs. Developed to exhibit human-level performance on various professional and academic benchmarks, it marked a significant advancement in reliability, creativity, and handling of nuanced instructions compared to its predecessors.
1 year newer

GPT-4
OpenAI
2023-06-13

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

DeepSeek-V3

GPT-4
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 3 common benchmarks

DeepSeek-V3

GPT-4
GPT-4
2022-12-31
Available providers and their performance metrics

DeepSeek-V3
DeepSeek

GPT-4

DeepSeek-V3

GPT-4

DeepSeek-V3

GPT-4
Azure
OpenAI