Model comparison

Claude 3.5 Haiku vs DeepSeek-R1

DeepSeek-R1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.0 to 28.9 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 41 shared benchmarks.

Claude 3.5 Haiku Anthropic

28.9

Rank #309 Confirmed

DeepSeek-R1 DeepSeek

42.0

Rank #110 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 41 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3.5 Haiku scores higher in 0 categories and DeepSeek-R1 in 9 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where DeepSeek-R1 leads 42.0 to 13.7.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 4.3% for Claude 3.5 Haiku and 66.4% for DeepSeek-R1.

Side by side

Claude 3.5 Haiku and DeepSeek-R1 specifications
Claude 3.5 HaikuDeepSeek-R1
ProviderAnthropicDeepSeek
Noometry Index28.942.0
Released2024-10-222025-01-20
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window—164K
Max output—64K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.50
Output $ / M tokens—$2.15
Results tracked4952

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Category by category

Coding DeepSeek-R1 leads

Claude 3.5 Haiku: 32.6 (#258), DeepSeek-R1: 45.9 (#63)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 HaikuDeepSeek-R1
Aider Polyglot28%71.4%
SciCode27.4%35.7%
WeirdML30.7%41.6%
LiveBench Coding51.4%66.7%
LMArena Coding12871427
BigCodeBench Instruct46.1%—
BigCodeBench Complete59%—
CadEval32%—
ALE-Bench—804.12
AlgoTune—1.7

Agentic & Tool Use DeepSeek-R1 leads

Claude 3.5 Haiku: 27.7 (#90), DeepSeek-R1: 30.4 (#68)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 HaikuDeepSeek-R1
BALROG19.3%34.9%
DeepResearch Bench—35.1%
METR Time Horizons—53.8%

Reasoning DeepSeek-R1 leads

Claude 3.5 Haiku: 17.1 (#286), DeepSeek-R1: 18.7 (#253)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 HaikuDeepSeek-R1
CritPt0%1.1%
LiveBench Reasoning28.1%83.2%
LMArena Hard Prompts12511415
LiveBench Data Analysis48.5%69.8%
Epoch Capabilities Index127.15141.3
LiveBench43.5%71.6%
ARC-AGI-2—1.3%
SimpleBench—40.8%
Kagi LLM Benchmark—69.4%
ARC-AGI-1—21.2%
DTBench56.7%—
ForecastBench—60

Math DeepSeek-R1 leads

Claude 3.5 Haiku: 13.7 (#294), DeepSeek-R1: 42.0 (#70)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 HaikuDeepSeek-R1
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20254.3%66.4%
Omni-MATH22.4%42.4%
LiveBench Math35.5%80.7%
LMArena Math12441401
MATH Level 546.4%96.6%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)0.3%—

Knowledge DeepSeek-R1 leads

Claude 3.5 Haiku: 18.7 (#276), DeepSeek-R1: 44.3 (#81)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 HaikuDeepSeek-R1
GPQA Diamond38.1%76.3%
MMLU-Pro60.5%79.3%
Confabulations36.7%12.7%
GPQA (HELM)36.3%66.6%
LMArena Expert12081394
Vectara Hallucination Rate—11.3%
MMLU74.3%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude 3.5 Haiku: 26.3 (#113), DeepSeek-R1: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 HaikuDeepSeek-R1
LMArena Vision1092—
GeoBench34%—

Multilingual DeepSeek-R1 leads

Claude 3.5 Haiku: 40.2 (#213), DeepSeek-R1: 52.6 (#80)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 HaikuDeepSeek-R1
LMArena Non-English12381412
LMArena Chinese12291443
LMArena French12621415
LMArena German12371405
LMArena Japanese11751394
LMArena Korean11721359
LMArena Russian12531423
LMArena Spanish12611410

Instruction Following DeepSeek-R1 leads

Claude 3.5 Haiku: 63.1 (#229), DeepSeek-R1: 72.2 (#138)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 HaikuDeepSeek-R1
LiveBench Instruction Following61.9%80.5%
IFEval79.2%78.4%
LMArena Instruction Following12411382

Long Context DeepSeek-R1 leads

Claude 3.5 Haiku: 38.3 (#195), DeepSeek-R1: 45.4 (#36)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 HaikuDeepSeek-R1
LMArena Longer Query12611391
Fiction.LiveBench—75%

Writing & Preference DeepSeek-R1 leads

Claude 3.5 Haiku: 42.9 (#228), DeepSeek-R1: 61.5 (#84)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 HaikuDeepSeek-R1
LMArena Text12551428
LMArena Creative Writing12331406
Short-Story Creative Writing73.5%83%
EQ-Bench Creative Writing11461500
WildBench76%82.8%
LMArena Multi-Turn12651404
LiveBench Language35.4%48.5%

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude 3.5 Haiku better than DeepSeek-R1?

DeepSeek-R1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.0 to 28.9 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude 3.5 Haiku or DeepSeek-R1 better for coding?

DeepSeek-R1 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 45.9 versus 32.6 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude 3.5 Haiku and DeepSeek-R1 share?

41 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3.5 Haiku has 49 scored results on Noometry and DeepSeek-R1 has 52.

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