Model comparison

Claude Opus 4.7 vs DeepSeek-V2.5 (Sep 2024)

Claude Opus 4.7 is the stronger model overall, scoring 58.3 to 37.6 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 17 shared benchmarks.

Claude Opus 4.7 Anthropic

58.3

Rank #19 Confirmed

DeepSeek-V2.5 (Sep 2024) DeepSeek

37.6

Rank #200 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Opus 4.7 scores higher in 8 categories and DeepSeek-V2.5 (Sep 2024) in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Claude Opus 4.7 leads 66.7 to 35.9.
  • DeepSeek-V2.5 (Sep 2024) has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude Opus 4.7 and DeepSeek-V2.5 (Sep 2024) specifications
Claude Opus 4.7DeepSeek-V2.5 (Sep 2024)
ProviderAnthropicDeepSeek
Noometry Index58.337.6
Released2026-04-142024-09-06
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1M—
Max output128K—
Input $ / M tokens$5—
Output $ / M tokens$25—
Results tracked6622

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Category by category

Coding Claude Opus 4.7 leads

Claude Opus 4.7: 59.6 (#13), DeepSeek-V2.5 (Sep 2024): 31.7 (#281)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.7DeepSeek-V2.5 (Sep 2024)
LMArena Coding15181309
SWE-bench Verified83.5%—
FrontierCode38.5%—
Aider Polyglot—17.8%
LMArena WebDev1558—
SciCode54.5%—
GSO44.1%—
WeirdML76.4%—
BigCodeBench Instruct—48.6%
MirrorCode31.1%—
BigCodeBench Complete—53.2%
ALE-Bench1,323—
HumanEval+—83.5%
MBPP+—74.1%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.7: 47.9 (#10), DeepSeek-V2.5 (Sep 2024): —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.7DeepSeek-V2.5 (Sep 2024)
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-V2.5 (Sep 2024): 25.6 (#145)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.7DeepSeek-V2.5 (Sep 2024)
LMArena Hard Prompts15061289
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—

Math Claude Opus 4.7 leads

Claude Opus 4.7: 66.7 (#26), DeepSeek-V2.5 (Sep 2024): 35.9 (#177)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.7DeepSeek-V2.5 (Sep 2024)
LMArena Math14991288
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%—

Knowledge Claude Opus 4.7 leads

Claude Opus 4.7: 62.6 (#23), DeepSeek-V2.5 (Sep 2024): 34.8 (#193)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.7DeepSeek-V2.5 (Sep 2024)
LMArena Expert15211266
GPQA Diamond90.2%—
Humanity's Last Exam36.2%—
SimpleQA Verified51.7%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate12%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.7: 41.2 (#38), DeepSeek-V2.5 (Sep 2024): —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.7DeepSeek-V2.5 (Sep 2024)
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-V2.5 (Sep 2024): 42.5 (#193)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.7DeepSeek-V2.5 (Sep 2024)
LMArena Non-English14801273
LMArena Chinese15311318
LMArena French15031289
LMArena German14951258
LMArena Japanese14721228
LMArena Korean14641209
LMArena Russian14941289
LMArena Spanish14951248

Instruction Following Claude Opus 4.7 leads

Claude Opus 4.7: 78.4 (#10), DeepSeek-V2.5 (Sep 2024): 67.5 (#194)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.7DeepSeek-V2.5 (Sep 2024)
LMArena Instruction Following14981280

Long Context Claude Opus 4.7 leads

Claude Opus 4.7: 46.2 (#25), DeepSeek-V2.5 (Sep 2024): 39.5 (#174)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.7DeepSeek-V2.5 (Sep 2024)
LMArena Longer Query15051301

Writing & Preference Claude Opus 4.7 leads

Claude Opus 4.7: 75.1 (#8), DeepSeek-V2.5 (Sep 2024): 49.8 (#187)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.7DeepSeek-V2.5 (Sep 2024)
LMArena Text14901294
LMArena Creative Writing14861285
LMArena Multi-Turn15051297
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1914—
EQ-Bench 41311—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Opus 4.7 better than DeepSeek-V2.5 (Sep 2024)?

Claude Opus 4.7 is the stronger model overall, scoring 58.3 to 37.6 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude Opus 4.7 or DeepSeek-V2.5 (Sep 2024) better for coding?

Claude Opus 4.7 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 59.6 versus 31.7 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude Opus 4.7 and DeepSeek-V2.5 (Sep 2024) share?

17 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Opus 4.7 has 66 scored results on Noometry and DeepSeek-V2.5 (Sep 2024) has 22.

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