# Claude 3.5 Haiku vs DeepSeek V3

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for Claude 3.5 Haiku and DeepSeek V3 across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/claude-3-5-haiku-vs-deepseek-v3
- Last updated: October 14, 2026

- Shared sourced benchmarks: 5
- HTML indexing: indexable
- Ranking lane: BenchAlign v5.8

## Quick Verdict

Pick Claude 3.5 Haiku if you want the stronger benchmark profile. DeepSeek V3 only makes more sense when its price, context window, or workload-specific category wins matter more than the overall score.

## Summary

- Claude 3.5 Haiku leads overall 47 to 31.95.
- The biggest single benchmark swing is AIME 2024 in Mathematics, with scores of 5.3% and 39.2%.
- Claude 3.5 Haiku also has the larger context window at 200K.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | Claude 3.5 Haiku | DeepSeek V3 |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | Anthropic | DeepSeek |
| Type | Proprietary | Open Weight |
| Reasoning | Non-Reasoning | Non-Reasoning |
| Context | 200K | 128K |
| Overall Score | null | 31.95 |
| Benchmarks Covered | 10 | 9 |
| Pricing (input/output) | N/A | $0.27 / $1.10 |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Not comparable
- Claude 3.5 Haiku public-lane score: Coming soon
- DeepSeek V3 public-lane score: 10.9 (Estimated · #118/124)

### Coding

- Winner: Not comparable
- Claude 3.5 Haiku public-lane score: Coming soon
- DeepSeek V3 public-lane score: 14.7 (Estimated · #133/148)

| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Haiku | DeepSeek V3 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| HumanEval | 88.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench Verified | 40.6% | 42% | DeepSeek V3 |
| LiveCodeBench | Coming soon | 37.6% | Coming soon |

### Reasoning

- Winner: Not comparable
- Claude 3.5 Haiku public-lane score: Coming soon
- DeepSeek V3 public-lane score: 26.3 (Unranked · 3 rankable rows)

| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Haiku | DeepSeek V3 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| BBH | 86.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| DROP | 83.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| LongBench v2 | Coming soon | 48.7% | Coming soon |

### Knowledge

- Winner: Not comparable
- Claude 3.5 Haiku public-lane score: Coming soon
- DeepSeek V3 public-lane score: 32.2 (Supported · #143/181)

| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Haiku | DeepSeek V3 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| GPQA | 41.6% | 59.1% | DeepSeek V3 |
| MMLU-Pro | 65% | 75.9% | DeepSeek V3 |
| MMLU | 80.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SimpleQA | Coming soon | 24.9% | Coming soon |

### Multilingual

- Winner: Not comparable
- Claude 3.5 Haiku public-lane score: Coming soon
- DeepSeek V3 public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Haiku | DeepSeek V3 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MGSM | 85.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Not comparable
- Claude 3.5 Haiku public-lane score: Coming soon
- DeepSeek V3 public-lane score: 39.6 (#105/128)

| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Haiku | DeepSeek V3 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| IFEval | 85.9% | 86.1% | DeepSeek V3 |

### Mathematics

- Winner: Not comparable
- Claude 3.5 Haiku public-lane score: Coming soon
- DeepSeek V3 public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Haiku | DeepSeek V3 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| AIME 2024 | 5.3% | 39.2% | DeepSeek V3 |
| MATH-500 | Coming soon | 90.2% | Coming soon |

## FAQ

### Which is better overall, Claude 3.5 Haiku or DeepSeek V3?

Claude 3.5 Haiku is ahead overall on BenchLM right now.

### How many benchmarks does Claude 3.5 Haiku cover on BenchLM?

Claude 3.5 Haiku currently has 10 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

### How many benchmarks does DeepSeek V3 cover on BenchLM?

DeepSeek V3 currently has 9 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

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