Model comparison

Claude Opus 4.7 vs Deepseek Coder v2

Claude Opus 4.7 is the stronger model overall, scoring 58.3 to 35.9 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 17 shared benchmarks.

Claude Opus 4.7 Anthropic

58.3

Rank #19 Confirmed

Deepseek Coder v2 DeepSeek

35.9

Rank #220 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Opus 4.7 scores higher in 8 categories and Deepseek Coder v2 in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Claude Opus 4.7 leads 75.1 to 38.2.
  • Deepseek Coder v2 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude Opus 4.7 and Deepseek Coder v2 specifications
Claude Opus 4.7Deepseek Coder v2
ProviderAnthropicDeepSeek
Noometry Index58.335.9
Released2026-04-142024-06-17
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1M—
Max output128K—
Input $ / M tokens$5—
Output $ / M tokens$25—
Results tracked6624

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Category by category

Coding Claude Opus 4.7 leads

Claude Opus 4.7: 59.6 (#13), Deepseek Coder v2: 38.1 (#183)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.7Deepseek Coder v2
LMArena Coding15181251
SWE-bench Verified83.5%—
FrontierCode38.5%—
LMArena WebDev1558—
SciCode54.5%—
GSO44.1%—
WeirdML76.4%—
BigCodeBench Instruct—48.2%
MirrorCode31.1%—
BigCodeBench Complete—59.7%
ALE-Bench1,323—
HumanEval+—82.3%
MBPP+—75.1%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.7: 47.9 (#10), Deepseek Coder v2: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.7Deepseek Coder v2
Terminal-Bench80.2%—
APEX-Agents49.2%—
OSWorld 2.018.2%—
τ²-bench Banking40.2%—
PostTrainBench28.6%—
ExploitBench26.5%—
GBAEval43.8%—
GDP.pdf21%—
LMArena Search1233—
Vending-Bench 210,937—

Reasoning Claude Opus 4.7 leads

Claude Opus 4.7: 53.8 (#29), Deepseek Coder v2: 23.6 (#176)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.7Deepseek Coder v2
LMArena Hard Prompts15061207
ARC-AGI-275.8%—
SimpleBench61.7%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark80.7%—
NYT Connections (extended)39%—
ARC-AGI-193.5%—
CritPt12%—
Chess Puzzles30%—
Thematic Generalization72.8%—
EBR-Bench19%—
Mystery Game Puzzles28%—
DTBench94.7%—
LMCA52.2%—
Epoch Capabilities Index156.25—
ForecastBench60.3—
WinoGrande—83.7%

Math Claude Opus 4.7 leads

Claude Opus 4.7: 66.7 (#26), Deepseek Coder v2: 34.9 (#190)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.7Deepseek Coder v2
LMArena Math14991241
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)70.2%—
FrontierMath Tier 431.7%—
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions73.6%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202597.8%—
ProofBench54%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)43.8%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)22.9%—
GSM8K—94.5%

Knowledge Claude Opus 4.7 leads

Claude Opus 4.7: 62.6 (#23), Deepseek Coder v2: 32.3 (#212)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.7Deepseek Coder v2
LMArena Expert15211181
GPQA Diamond90.2%—
Humanity's Last Exam36.2%—
SimpleQA Verified51.7%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate12%—
ARC (AI2) Challenge—64.3%

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.7: 41.2 (#38), Deepseek Coder v2: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.7Deepseek Coder v2
LMArena Vision1316—
Blueprint-Bench 224.5%—
Furniture Assembly33.3%—
LMArena Document1495—

Multilingual Claude Opus 4.7 leads

Claude Opus 4.7: 57.3 (#10), Deepseek Coder v2: 36.3 (#240)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.7Deepseek Coder v2
LMArena Non-English14801182
LMArena Chinese15311201
LMArena French15031185
LMArena German14951164
LMArena Japanese14721126
LMArena Korean14641104
LMArena Russian14941188
LMArena Spanish14951153

Instruction Following Claude Opus 4.7 leads

Claude Opus 4.7: 78.4 (#10), Deepseek Coder v2: 61.7 (#242)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.7Deepseek Coder v2
LMArena Instruction Following14981180

Long Context Claude Opus 4.7 leads

Claude Opus 4.7: 46.2 (#25), Deepseek Coder v2: 37.0 (#224)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.7Deepseek Coder v2
LMArena Longer Query15051219

Writing & Preference Claude Opus 4.7 leads

Claude Opus 4.7: 75.1 (#8), Deepseek Coder v2: 38.2 (#253)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.7Deepseek Coder v2
LMArena Text14901191
LMArena Creative Writing14861120
LMArena Multi-Turn15051177
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1914—
EQ-Bench 41311—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Opus 4.7 better than Deepseek Coder v2?

Claude Opus 4.7 is the stronger model overall, scoring 58.3 to 35.9 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude Opus 4.7 or Deepseek Coder v2 better for coding?

Claude Opus 4.7 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 59.6 versus 38.1 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude Opus 4.7 and Deepseek Coder v2 share?

17 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Opus 4.7 has 66 scored results on Noometry and Deepseek Coder v2 has 24.

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