Model comparison

Claude 3 Opus vs DeepSeek Coder 33B

Claude 3 Opus has enough public results to be ranked (#310); DeepSeek Coder 33B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Last verified . 7 shared benchmarks.

Claude 3 Opus Anthropic

29.5

Rank #310 Confirmed

DeepSeek Coder 33B DeepSeek

38.9

Unranked Sparse

Summary

  • They share 7 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3 Opus scores higher in 0 categories and DeepSeek Coder 33B in 1 category; one gap is clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in coding, where DeepSeek Coder 33B leads 38.0 to 32.9.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is BigCodeBench Complete: 57.4% for Claude 3 Opus and 51.1% for DeepSeek Coder 33B.
  • DeepSeek Coder 33B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude 3 Opus and DeepSeek Coder 33B specifications
Claude 3 OpusDeepSeek Coder 33B
ProviderAnthropicDeepSeek
Noometry Index29.538.9
Released2024-02-292023-11-02
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window——
Max output——
Input $ / M tokens——
Output $ / M tokens——
Results tracked469

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Category by category

Coding DeepSeek Coder 33B leads

Claude 3 Opus: 32.9 (#267), DeepSeek Coder 33B: 38.0 (#184)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusDeepSeek Coder 33B
BigCodeBench Instruct45.5%42%
BigCodeBench Complete57.4%51.1%
HumanEval+77.4%75%
MBPP+73.3%70.1%
WeirdML19.2%—
LiveBench Coding38.6%—
LMArena Coding1264—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude 3 Opus: 24.6 (#116), DeepSeek Coder 33B: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusDeepSeek Coder 33B
Cybench10%—
METR Time Horizons29.5%—

Reasoning Not comparable

Claude 3 Opus: 14.6 (#324), DeepSeek Coder 33B: —

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusDeepSeek Coder 33B
Epoch Capabilities Index126.9196.32
WinoGrande88.5%62%
SimpleBench23.5%—
Chess Puzzles5%—
EnigmaEval0.8%—
LiveBench Reasoning40.6%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1245—
DTBench61.6%—
LiveBench Data Analysis57.9%—
LMCA17%—
ForecastBench58.4—
LiveBench49.2%—

Math Not comparable

Claude 3 Opus: 14.8 (#299), DeepSeek Coder 33B: —

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusDeepSeek Coder 33B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20254.7%—
LiveBench Math43.6%—
LMArena Math1273—
MATH Level 537.5%—
GSM8K—35.4%

Knowledge Not comparable

Claude 3 Opus: 24.5 (#267), DeepSeek Coder 33B: —

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusDeepSeek Coder 33B
MMLU84.6%39.4%
GPQA Diamond47.2%—
SimpleQA Verified12.6%—
Confabulations22.7%—
LMArena Expert1223—
ARC (AI2) Challenge—42.2%

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude 3 Opus: 27.1 (#116), DeepSeek Coder 33B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusDeepSeek Coder 33B
LMArena Vision1023—

Multilingual Not comparable

Claude 3 Opus: 41.4 (#207), DeepSeek Coder 33B: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusDeepSeek Coder 33B
LMArena Non-English1258—
LMArena Chinese1248—
LMArena French1275—
LMArena German1258—
LMArena Japanese1204—
LMArena Korean1187—
LMArena Russian1280—
LMArena Spanish1246—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Claude 3 Opus: 64.1 (#228), DeepSeek Coder 33B: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusDeepSeek Coder 33B
LiveBench Instruction Following63.9%—
LMArena Instruction Following1248—

Long Context Not comparable

Claude 3 Opus: 38.2 (#202), DeepSeek Coder 33B: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusDeepSeek Coder 33B
LMArena Longer Query1259—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Claude 3 Opus: 47.2 (#213), DeepSeek Coder 33B: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusDeepSeek Coder 33B
LMArena Text1262—
LMArena Creative Writing1235—
LMArena Multi-Turn1275—
LiveBench Language50.4%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude 3 Opus better than DeepSeek Coder 33B?

Claude 3 Opus has enough public results to be ranked (#310); DeepSeek Coder 33B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Is Claude 3 Opus or DeepSeek Coder 33B better for coding?

DeepSeek Coder 33B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 38.0 versus 32.9 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude 3 Opus and DeepSeek Coder 33B share?

7 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3 Opus has 46 scored results on Noometry and DeepSeek Coder 33B has 9.

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