# BTL-4 vs DeepSeek V3

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for BTL-4 and DeepSeek V3 across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/btl-4-vs-deepseek-v3
- Last updated: September 24, 2026

- Shared sourced benchmarks: 1
- HTML indexing: indexable
- Ranking lane: BenchAlign v5.7

## Quick Verdict

Evidence is too thin for a benchmark verdict: BTL-4 and DeepSeek V3 share only 1 sourced benchmark row.

## Summary

- Only 1 shared sourced benchmark row is available. That is not enough for a broad capability verdict, so this mirror does not name an overall winner.
- BTL-4 has the lower published output-token price.
- BTL-4 has the larger published context window at 262K.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | BTL-4 | DeepSeek V3 |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | Bad Theory Labs | DeepSeek |
| Type | Open Weight | Open Weight |
| Reasoning | Reasoning | Non-Reasoning |
| Context | 262K | 128K |
| Independent public score (not head-to-head) | null | 31.9 |
| Benchmarks Covered | 3 | 6 |
| Pricing (input/output) | $0.00 / $0.00 | $0.27 / $1.10 |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- BTL-4 public-lane score: Coming soon
- DeepSeek V3 public-lane score: 11.1 (Estimated · #102/105)

| Benchmark | BTL-4 | DeepSeek V3 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| BFCL v4 | 73.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Coding

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- BTL-4 public-lane score: Coming soon
- DeepSeek V3 public-lane score: 18.9 (Estimated · #123/135)

| Benchmark | BTL-4 | DeepSeek V3 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| SWE-bench Verified | 78.4% | 42% | BTL-4 |
| LiveCodeBench v6 | 66.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| LiveCodeBench | Coming soon | 37.6% | Coming soon |

### Reasoning

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- BTL-4 public-lane score: Coming soon
- DeepSeek V3 public-lane score: 42.2 (Unranked · 2 rankable rows)

### Knowledge

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- BTL-4 public-lane score: Coming soon
- DeepSeek V3 public-lane score: 30 (Estimated · #130/158)

| Benchmark | BTL-4 | DeepSeek V3 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| GPQA | Coming soon | 59.1% | Coming soon |
| MMLU-Pro | Coming soon | 75.9% | Coming soon |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- BTL-4 public-lane score: Coming soon
- DeepSeek V3 public-lane score: 38.2 (#103/124)

| Benchmark | BTL-4 | DeepSeek V3 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| IFEval | Coming soon | 86.1% | Coming soon |

### Mathematics

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- BTL-4 public-lane score: Coming soon
- DeepSeek V3 public-lane score: 26 (Unranked · 1 rankable row)

| Benchmark | BTL-4 | DeepSeek V3 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| FrontierMath v2 (Tiers 1-3) | Coming soon | 1.724% | Coming soon |

## FAQ

### Is there enough evidence to pick between BTL-4 and DeepSeek V3?

Not yet. The models share only 1 sourced benchmark row, so this mirror reports the available measurements and metadata without naming a broad winner.

### What can I compare safely on this page?

Published pricing, context windows, model type, and individual shared benchmark rows are directly comparable. Independent overall scores and non-overlapping benchmark coverage are labeled separately and should not be read as a controlled head-to-head result.

## Related Comparisons

- [BTL-4 vs BTL-3](/compare/btl-3-vs-btl-4)
- [DeepSeek V3 vs BTL-3](/compare/btl-3-vs-deepseek-v3)
- [BTL-4 vs BTL-4 Compact](/compare/btl-4-vs-btl-4-compact)
- [DeepSeek V3 vs BTL-4 Compact](/compare/btl-4-compact-vs-deepseek-v3)

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