Side-by-side benchmark comparison across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, and math workflows.
Claude 4.1 Opus is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 50 to 25. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.
Claude 4.1 Opus's sharpest advantage is in reasoning, where it averages 72.9 against 24.9. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is SimpleQA, 74% 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 4.1 Opus gives you the larger context window at 200K, compared with 128K for DeepSeek V3.
Pick Claude 4.1 Opus if you want the stronger benchmark profile. DeepSeek V3 only becomes the better choice if mathematics is the priority.
Comparable scores for this category are coming soon. One or both models do not have sourced results here yet.
Claude 4.1 Opus
71.3
DeepSeek V3
42
Benchmark data for this category is coming soon.
Claude 4.1 Opus
72.9
DeepSeek V3
24.9
Claude 4.1 Opus
77.5
DeepSeek V3
69.6
Benchmark data for this category is coming soon.
Benchmark data for this category is coming soon.
Claude 4.1 Opus
75
DeepSeek V3
90.2
Claude 4.1 Opus is ahead overall, 50 to 25. The biggest single separator in this matchup is SimpleQA, where the scores are 74% and 24.9%.
Claude 4.1 Opus has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 77.5 versus 69.6. Inside this category, GPQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Claude 4.1 Opus has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 71.3 versus 42. Inside this category, SWE-bench Verified is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
DeepSeek V3 has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 90.2 versus 75. Inside this category, AIME 2024 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Claude 4.1 Opus has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 72.9 versus 24.9. Inside this category, SimpleQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
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