Composer 2 vs DeepSeek-R1

Side-by-side benchmark comparison across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, and math workflows.

Composer 2 is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 62 to 45. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.

Composer 2's sharpest advantage is in agentic, where it averages 61.7 against 44.5. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is Terminal-Bench 2.0, 61.7% to 42%.

Composer 2 is also the more expensive model on tokens at $0.50 input / $2.50 output per 1M tokens, versus $0.55 input / $2.19 output per 1M tokens for DeepSeek-R1. Composer 2 gives you the larger context window at 200K, compared with 128K for DeepSeek-R1.

Quick Verdict

Pick Composer 2 if you want the stronger benchmark profile. DeepSeek-R1 only becomes the better choice if you want the cheaper token bill.

Agentic

Composer 2

Composer 2

61.7

DeepSeek-R1

44.5

61.7%
Terminal-Bench 2.0
42%
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BrowseComp
49%
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OSWorld-Verified
44%

Coding

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73.7%
SWE Multilingual
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97.2%
React Native Evals
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HumanEval
92%
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SWE-bench Verified
49.2%
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LiveCodeBench
19%
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SWE-bench Pro
25%

Multimodal & Grounded

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MMMU-Pro
43%
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OfficeQA Pro
53%

Reasoning

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MuSR
40%
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BBH
66%
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LongBench v2
58%
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MRCRv2
57%
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ARC-AGI-2
1.3%

Knowledge

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MMLU
90.8%
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GPQA
71.5%
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SuperGPQA
41%
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MMLU-Pro
84%
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HLE
14%
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FrontierScience
44%
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SimpleQA
30.1%

Instruction Following

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IFEval
83.3%

Multilingual

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MGSM
61%
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MMLU-ProX
60%

Mathematics

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AIME 2023
44%
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AIME 2024
79.8%
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AIME 2025
45%
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HMMT Feb 2023
40%
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HMMT Feb 2024
42%
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HMMT Feb 2025
41%
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BRUMO 2025
43%
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MATH-500
97.3%

Frequently Asked Questions

Which is better, Composer 2 or DeepSeek-R1?

Composer 2 is ahead overall, 62 to 45. The biggest single separator in this matchup is Terminal-Bench 2.0, where the scores are 61.7% and 42%.

Which is better for agentic tasks, Composer 2 or DeepSeek-R1?

Composer 2 has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 61.7 versus 44.5. Inside this category, Terminal-Bench 2.0 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: March 18, 2026

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