AI Model Comparison

Claude Opus 4 vs DeepSeek-V3

Side-by-side comparison of pricing, context window, benchmarks, capabilities, and license. Every figure comes from the developer's own pages, last checked on ; each model's page lists its sources. A figure we could not source shows as a dash.

Quick spec sheet

PropertyClaude Opus 4DeepSeek-V3
ReleasedMay 22, 2025Dec 26, 2024
DeveloperAnthropicDeepSeek
Typereasoningllm
Licenseproprietaryopen-weight
Context window—128,000
Parameters—671B total, 37B active (mixture of experts)
Developer statusRetiredRetired
Input $/M tokens——
Output $/M tokens——

Bold green values indicate the winner on that dimension where comparison is meaningful (lower price wins; bigger context wins; more open license wins; newer date wins). Prices are the ones each developer lists today; a model it no longer prices has none.

Capability map

Only Claude Opus 4

reasoning

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Only DeepSeek-V3

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