Noometry

Model comparison

Claude 3 Sonnet vs Deepseek Coder v2

Deepseek Coder v2 is the stronger model overall, scoring 35.9 to 29.0 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 22 shared benchmarks.

Claude 3 Sonnet Anthropic

29.0

Rank #319 Confirmed

Deepseek Coder v2 DeepSeek

35.9

Rank #220 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 22 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3 Sonnet scores higher in 3 categories and Deepseek Coder v2 in 5 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Deepseek Coder v2 leads 34.9 to 10.7.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is BigCodeBench Complete: 53.8% for Claude 3 Sonnet and 59.7% for Deepseek Coder v2.
  • Deepseek Coder v2 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude 3 SonnetDeepseek Coder v2
ProviderAnthropicDeepSeek
Noometry Index29.035.9
Released2024-02-292024-06-17
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window——
Max output——
Input $ / M tokens——
Output $ / M tokens——
Results tracked3024

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Category by category

Coding Deepseek Coder v2 leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 29.6 (#302), Deepseek Coder v2: 38.1 (#183)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetDeepseek Coder v2
BigCodeBench Instruct42.7%48.2%
LMArena Coding12231251
BigCodeBench Complete53.8%59.7%
HumanEval+64%82.3%
MBPP+69.3%75.1%
WeirdML10.2%—

Reasoning Deepseek Coder v2 leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 20.5 (#237), Deepseek Coder v2: 23.6 (#176)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetDeepseek Coder v2
LMArena Hard Prompts11971207
WinoGrande75.1%83.7%
DTBench53.6%—
Epoch Capabilities Index120.7—

Math Deepseek Coder v2 leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 10.7 (#310), Deepseek Coder v2: 34.9 (#190)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetDeepseek Coder v2
LMArena Math12131241
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20252.5%—
MATH Level 518.2%—
GSM8K—94.5%

Knowledge Deepseek Coder v2 leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 21.1 (#276), Deepseek Coder v2: 32.3 (#212)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetDeepseek Coder v2
LMArena Expert11731181
GPQA Diamond40.6%—
ARC (AI2) Challenge—64.3%
MMLU75.9%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude 3 Sonnet: 25.2 (#125), Deepseek Coder v2: —

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetDeepseek Coder v2
LMArena Vision984—

Multilingual Claude 3 Sonnet leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 37.8 (#234), Deepseek Coder v2: 36.3 (#240)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetDeepseek Coder v2
LMArena Non-English12051182
LMArena Chinese11891201
LMArena French12291185
LMArena German12041164
LMArena Japanese11311126
LMArena Korean11281104
LMArena Russian12271188
LMArena Spanish12041153

Instruction Following Claude 3 Sonnet leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 62.8 (#235), Deepseek Coder v2: 61.7 (#242)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetDeepseek Coder v2
LMArena Instruction Following11991180

Long Context Too close to call

Claude 3 Sonnet: 36.7 (#228), Deepseek Coder v2: 37.0 (#224)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetDeepseek Coder v2
LMArena Longer Query12111219

Writing & Preference Claude 3 Sonnet leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 42.1 (#238), Deepseek Coder v2: 38.2 (#253)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetDeepseek Coder v2
LMArena Text12181191
LMArena Creative Writing11861120
LMArena Multi-Turn12271177

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude 3 Sonnet better than Deepseek Coder v2?

Deepseek Coder v2 is the stronger model overall, scoring 35.9 to 29.0 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude 3 Sonnet or Deepseek Coder v2 better for coding?

Deepseek Coder v2 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 38.1 versus 29.6 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude 3 Sonnet and Deepseek Coder v2 share?

22 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3 Sonnet has 30 scored results on Noometry and Deepseek Coder v2 has 24.

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