Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
DeepSeek-V3 leads with 1.5% higher average benchmark score. DeepSeek-V3 offers 126.1K more tokens in context window than Grok-2. DeepSeek-V3 is $10.63 cheaper per million tokens. Grok-2 supports multimodal inputs. Both models have their strengths depending on your specific coding needs.
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.
xAI
Grok 2 was developed as the second generation of xAI's language model family, designed to provide enhanced reasoning, knowledge, and conversational abilities. Built with architectural improvements and expanded training, it represents a significant advancement in xAI's model capabilities.
4 months newer

Grok-2
xAI
2024-08-13

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

DeepSeek-V3

Grok-2
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 3 common benchmarks

DeepSeek-V3

Grok-2
Available providers and their performance metrics

DeepSeek-V3
DeepSeek

Grok-2

DeepSeek-V3

Grok-2

DeepSeek-V3

Grok-2
xAI