Side-by-side benchmark comparison across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, and math workflows.
Claude 3 Opus is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 47 to 25. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.
Claude 3 Opus's sharpest advantage is in coding, where it averages 84.9 against 42. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is SimpleQA, 59% to 24.9%. DeepSeek V3 does hit back in mathematics, so the answer changes if that is the part of the workload you care about most.
Claude 3 Opus gives you the larger context window at 200K, compared with 128K for DeepSeek V3.
Pick Claude 3 Opus if you want the stronger benchmark profile. DeepSeek V3 only becomes the better choice if mathematics is the priority.
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Claude 3 Opus
84.9
DeepSeek V3
42
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Claude 3 Opus
57.9
DeepSeek V3
24.9
Claude 3 Opus
60.7
DeepSeek V3
69.6
Comparable scores for this category are coming soon. One or both models do not have sourced results here yet.
Comparable scores for this category are coming soon. One or both models do not have sourced results here yet.
Claude 3 Opus
60
DeepSeek V3
90.2
Claude 3 Opus is ahead overall, 47 to 25. The biggest single separator in this matchup is SimpleQA, where the scores are 59% and 24.9%.
DeepSeek V3 has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 69.6 versus 60.7. Inside this category, GPQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Claude 3 Opus has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 84.9 versus 42. DeepSeek V3 stays close enough that the answer can still flip depending on your workload.
DeepSeek V3 has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 90.2 versus 60. Inside this category, AIME 2024 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Claude 3 Opus has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 57.9 versus 24.9. Inside this category, SimpleQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
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