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DeepSeek V3 vs All Models

Detailed head-to-head fact sheets comparing DeepSeek V3 (DeepSeek) against every indexable model in the benchmark catalog.

Elo Rating1,310
SWE-bench48.6%
Out $/1M$1.0287
Context Window164k
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DeepSeek V3 vs Claude Opus 5Anthropic
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Anthropic current default flagship. Official API $5/$25 per 1M tokens and a 1M context window (Anthropic, Jul 24 2026).

Elo: −314SWE: −30.6%
DeepSeek V3 vs Claude Fable 5Anthropic
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Anthropic top-tier long-horizon model. Official API $10/$50 per 1M tokens (Claude Platform pricing, Aug 2026).

Elo: −306SWE: −31.4%
DeepSeek V3 vs GPT-5.6 SolOpenAI
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OpenAI 5.6 flagship tier. Official API $5/$30 per 1M tokens (OpenAI pricing, Jul 30 2026 update left Sol unchanged).

Elo: −298SWE: −29%
DeepSeek V3 vs Claude Opus 4.8Anthropic
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Prior Opus generation still billed at $5/$25. Kept as a compare baseline against Opus 5.

Elo: −288SWE: −29.8%
DeepSeek V3 vs Grok 4.6xAI
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xAI Aug 12 2026 post-training refresh of Grok 4.5. Same $2/$6 API price, 500k context, stronger agentic traces.

Elo: −282SWE: −20.5%
DeepSeek V3 vs Claude Opus 4.6Anthropic
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Follow-on Opus release. Slightly behind 4.5 on official SWE-bench bash-only in the last published sweep; stronger long-horizon agent traces.

Elo: −264SWE: −27.3%
DeepSeek V3 vs Gemini 3.6 ProGoogle
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Current Google Pro-class multimodal model. Long context, strong coding, billed like the 3.x Pro tier.

Elo: −260SWE: −26%
DeepSeek V3 vs Claude Opus 4.5Anthropic
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Anthropic frontier coding and computer-use model. SWE-bench leader on the official mini-SWE-agent harness in the Feb 2026 refresh.

Elo: −258SWE: −28.2%
DeepSeek V3 vs OpenAI: o3 MiniOpenAI
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Auto-discovered from OpenRouter (openai/o3-mini). Preview until a second source matches.

Elo: −250SWE: −29.9%
DeepSeek V3 vs GPT-5OpenAI
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OpenAI flagship reasoning model for 2025–26. Strong general preference Elo and multimodal coverage.

Elo: −248SWE: −19.8%
DeepSeek V3 vs GLM-5.3Zhipu
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Z.ai Aug 14 2026 post-train of the GLM-5.2 744B base. Coding-plan live; open weights promised after a two-week safety review (z.ai/blog/glm-5.3).

Elo: −248SWE: −27.8%
DeepSeek V3 vs Claude Sonnet 5Anthropic
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Anthropic workhorse. Official $2/$10 per 1M tokens made permanent on Aug 10 2026.

Elo: −246SWE: −25.2%
DeepSeek V3 vs Gemini 3 ProGoogle
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Google frontier multimodal model with a multi-million-token context window.

Elo: −242SWE: −23.8%
DeepSeek V3 vs GPT-5.6 TerraOpenAI
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OpenAI 5.6 mid tier. Official API $2/$12 per 1M after the Jul 30 2026 price cut.

Elo: −238SWE: −21.8%
DeepSeek V3 vs GPT-4.5 OrionOpenAI
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OpenAI largest dense non-reasoning model with expansive world knowledge and reduced hallucinations.

Elo: −230SWE: −22.4%
DeepSeek V3 vs DeepSeek V4 ProDeepSeek
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Open-weight-adjacent DeepSeek flagship. High reasoning density per dollar.

Elo: −226SWE: −23%
DeepSeek V3 vs Gemini 3.7 FlashGoogle
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Google Aug 13 2026 workhorse. Official intro price $0.75/$3.75 per 1M through Dec 31 2026; 1,048,576-token context (Google blog).

Elo: −220SWE: −23.8%
DeepSeek V3 vs Kimi K3Moonshot
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Moonshot AI frontier flagship reasoning and agent swarm model with 256k context and top-tier SWE-bench coding capability.

Elo: −218SWE: −25.2%
DeepSeek V3 vs Claude Sonnet 4.5Anthropic
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Workhorse Anthropic model: most of Opus coding quality at a mid-tier price.

Elo: −214SWE: −21.5%
DeepSeek V3 vs Qwen 3 MaxAlibaba
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Alibaba flagship. Strong math and multilingual code.

Elo: −208SWE: −19.2%
DeepSeek V3 vs MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.5Moonshot
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Auto-discovered from OpenRouter (moonshotai/kimi-k2.5). Preview until a second source matches.

Elo: −205SWE: −22.7%
DeepSeek V3 vs OpenAI: o1OpenAI
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Auto-discovered from OpenRouter (openai/o1). Preview until a second source matches.

Elo: −202SWE: −0.3%
DeepSeek V3 vs Gemini 3.6 FlashGoogle
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Google Jul 21 workhorse. Now shares the 3.7 Flash introductory $0.75/$3.75 rate through Dec 31 2026.

Elo: −196SWE: −22.2%
DeepSeek V3 vs Gemini 3 FlashGoogle
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Fast Google frontier-adjacent model. Near-top official SWE-bench at a fraction of Opus price.

Elo: −185SWE: −27.2%
DeepSeek V3 vs Qwen QwQ 32BAlibaba
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Alibaba specialized open reasoning model competing with frontier closed reasoning models.

Elo: −185SWE: −18.9%
DeepSeek V3 vs GLM-5.2Zhipu
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Zhipu flagship. Strong Chinese/English coding and agents.

Elo: −182SWE: −20.7%
DeepSeek V3 vs Gemini 2.0 Flash ThinkingGoogle
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Google experimental reasoning model that visualizes thoughts in real-time.

Elo: −180SWE: −18.2%
DeepSeek V3 vs DeepSeek V4 FlashDeepSeek
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DeepSeek Jul 31 2026 price-performance SKU. Public listings put it near $0.14/$0.28 per 1M tokens.

Elo: −180SWE: −22.6%
DeepSeek V3 vs Claude Opus 4Anthropic
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First Claude 4 Opus generation. Baseline for opus 4 vs opus 5.

Elo: −180SWE: −23.9%
DeepSeek V3 vs Grok 4xAI
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Previous xAI flagship.

Elo: −178SWE: −10%
DeepSeek V3 vs MiniMax M2.5MiniMax
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MiniMax coding model. Tied near the top of official SWE-bench bash-only in Feb 2026.

Elo: −168SWE: −27.2%
DeepSeek V3 vs Yi-Lightning01.AI
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01.AI ultra-fast reasoning model delivering top LiveBench efficiency.

Elo: −165SWE: −14.8%
DeepSeek V3 vs Seed 2.1 TurboByteDance
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ByteDance Seed 2.1 Turbo, listed on public model timelines as an Aug 10 2026 API drop.

Elo: −162SWE: −14.6%
DeepSeek V3 vs Doubao Pro 1.5ByteDance
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ByteDance flagship enterprise model with ultra-low token cost and 128k context.

Elo: −160SWE: −13.5%
DeepSeek V3 vs Llama 4 MaverickMeta
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Meta natively multimodal open-weight flagship.

Elo: −158SWE: −8.5%
DeepSeek V3 vs GPT-5.6 LunaOpenAI
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OpenAI 5.6 fast/cheap tier. Official API $0.20/$1.20 per 1M after the Jul 30 80% Luna cut.

Elo: −156SWE: −13.2%
DeepSeek V3 vs MoonshotAI: Kimi K2 0711Moonshot
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Auto-discovered from OpenRouter (moonshotai/kimi-k2). Preview until a second source matches.

Elo: −155SWE: −17.2%
DeepSeek V3 vs Mistral Large 3Mistral
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Mistral European flagship with strong function calling.

Elo: −146SWE: −6.8%
DeepSeek V3 vs Claude Sonnet 4Anthropic
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First Sonnet 4 generation. Bridge between 3.5/3.7 and Sonnet 5.

Elo: −145SWE: −14.2%
DeepSeek V3 vs Ernie 4.5 TurboBaidu
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Baidu current multimodal enterprise foundation model with broad Chinese knowledge.

Elo: −140SWE: −8.4%
DeepSeek V3 vs Qwen 2.5 PlusAlibaba
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Alibaba balanced flagship API model with high-throughput general reasoning.

Elo: −135SWE: −10.6%
DeepSeek V3 vs OpenAI o1-miniOpenAI
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OpenAI high-speed, cost-effective reasoning model optimized for STEM, math, and code generation.

Elo: −135SWE: −7.8%
DeepSeek V3 vs Qwen3 235BAlibaba
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Open-weight Qwen3 mixture-of-experts.

Elo: −130SWE: −10.8%
DeepSeek V3 vs Claude Haiku 4.5Anthropic
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Anthropic cheap/fast Claude SKU. Official Claude Platform list price $1/$5 per 1M tokens (Anthropic Haiku page).

Elo: −128SWE: −9.6%
DeepSeek V3 vs Yi-Large01.AI
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01.AI full-scale dense model for complex instruction following.

Elo: −120SWE: −5.2%
DeepSeek V3 vs Qwen 2.5 Coder 32BAlibaba
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Alibaba dedicated open-weight code generation model with near-frontier SWE-bench Verified coding capability.

Elo: −115SWE: −16.6%
DeepSeek V3 vs Kimi Chat 1.5Moonshot
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Moonshot ultra-long context model supporting up to 2 million tokens per request.

Elo: −110SWE: −2.4%
DeepSeek V3 vs Llama 4 ScoutMeta
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Meta open-weight Llama 4 long-context sibling of Maverick. Common public API lists sit near $0.08–$0.30 / $0.30–$0.70 per 1M; we store a conservative hosted list until OpenRouter overwrites.

Elo: −102SWE: −3.8%
DeepSeek V3 vs GPT-5 miniOpenAI
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Cost-efficient GPT-5 distill for high-volume agents.

Elo: −100SWE: −3.8%
DeepSeek V3 vs Grok 3xAI
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Previous xAI generation before Grok 4. Kept for grok 3 vs grok 4.

Elo: −95SWE: −2.8%
DeepSeek V3 vs Qwen3.8 27BAlibaba
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Alibaba open-weight 27B drop dated Aug 14 2026. Dense enough to self-host; not a frontier MoE.

Elo: −88SWE: −10.2%
DeepSeek V3 vs Llama 3.1 405BMeta
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Meta flagship open-weight 405B dense foundation model with 128k context window.

Elo: −60SWE: −9.8%
DeepSeek V3 vs DeepSeek Coder V2DeepSeek
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DeepSeek open-weight Mixture-of-Experts coding model supporting 338 programming languages and 128k context.

Elo: −55SWE: −11.9%
DeepSeek V3 vs Claude 3.7 SonnetAnthropic
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Hybrid-reasoning Sonnet from 2025. Kept for historical compare pages.

Elo: −52SWE: −21.7%
DeepSeek V3 vs Doubao Lite 1.5ByteDance
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ByteDance high-speed lightweight model priced at sub-cent levels.

Elo: −50SWE: +2.6%
DeepSeek V3 vs DeepSeek R1DeepSeek
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Open-weights reasoning model trained with large-scale RL.

Elo: −48SWE: −16.6%
DeepSeek V3 vs Gemini 2.5 ProGoogle
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Previous Google long-context flagship.

Elo: −40SWE: −15.2%
DeepSeek V3 vs Command ACohere
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Cohere enterprise RAG and tool-use model.

Elo: −34SWE: +6%
DeepSeek V3 vs GPT-4oOpenAI
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Previous OpenAI flagship. Still a common compare baseline on legacy pages.

Elo: −25SWE: −6.2%
DeepSeek V3 vs Codestral 25.01Mistral
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Mistral code-specialist model.

Elo: −10SWE: −3.2%
DeepSeek V3 vs Gemini 2.5 FlashGoogle
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Previous Google speed workhorse.

Elo: +15SWE: +0.6%
DeepSeek V3 vs Llama 3.3 70BMeta
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Previous Meta 70B open-weight workhorse.

Elo: +25SWE: +3.5%
DeepSeek V3 vs Claude 3.5 SonnetAnthropic
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2024 workhorse. Still a high-intent compare against GPT-4o.

Elo: +30SWE: −0.4%
DeepSeek V3 vs GPT-4o miniOpenAI
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Legacy small OpenAI model. Useful as a cheap baseline.

Elo: +38SWE: +7.4%
DeepSeek V3 vs Gemini 1.5 ProGoogle
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First million-token Gemini Pro. Baseline for 1.5 vs 2.5 vs 3.x Pro.

Elo: +50SWE: +10.6%
DeepSeek V3 vs GPT-4 TurboOpenAI
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GPT-4 Turbo 128k. Historical flagship for gpt-4 turbo vs gpt-4o / gpt-5.

Elo: +55SWE: +15.4%
DeepSeek V3 vs Claude 3 OpusAnthropic
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Original Claude 3 flagship. Kept so opus 3 vs later Opus and vs GPT-4o still resolve.

Elo: +62SWE: +10.2%
DeepSeek V3 vs Llama 3.1 70BMeta
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Llama 3.1 70B instruct. Predecessor to 3.3 70B and Llama 4.

Elo: +70SWE: +8.4%
DeepSeek V3 vs Claude 3.5 HaikuAnthropic
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Previous cheap Claude. Haiku 4.5 is the current $1/$5 SKU.

Elo: +86SWE: +12.4%