Noometry

Model comparison

Claude Opus 4.7 vs DeepSeek-V3

Claude Opus 4.7 is the stronger model overall, scoring 58.3 to 39.5 on the Noometry Index. DeepSeek-V3 costs 25× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Claude Opus 4.7's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Last verified . 31 shared benchmarks.

Claude Opus 4.7 Anthropic

58.3

Rank #19 Confirmed

DeepSeek-V3 DeepSeek

39.5

Rank #166 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 31 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Opus 4.7 scores higher in 8 categories and DeepSeek-V3 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 32.1.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 97.8% for Claude Opus 4.7 and 37.8% for DeepSeek-V3.
  • DeepSeek-V3 is cheaper at $0.24 / $0.90 per million input/output tokens, against $5 / $25 for Claude Opus 4.7.
  • Claude Opus 4.7 accepts more context: 1M tokens versus 164K.
  • DeepSeek-V3 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude Opus 4.7DeepSeek-V3
ProviderAnthropicDeepSeek
Noometry Index58.339.5
Released2026-04-142024-12-26
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1M164K
Max output128K164K
Input $ / M tokens$5$0.24
Output $ / M tokens$25$0.90
Results tracked6660

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Category by category

Coding Claude Opus 4.7 leads

Claude Opus 4.7: 59.6 (#13), DeepSeek-V3: 42.3 (#106)

BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.7DeepSeek-V3
SciCode54.5%35.8%
WeirdML76.4%36.1%
LMArena Coding15181368
SWE-bench Verified83.5%—
FrontierCode38.5%—
Aider Polyglot—55.1%
LMArena WebDev1558—
GSO44.1%—
BigCodeBench Instruct—50%
LiveBench Coding—70.9%
MirrorCode31.1%—
BigCodeBench Complete—62.2%
ALE-Bench1,323—
HumanEval+—86.6%
MBPP+—73%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.7: 47.9 (#10), DeepSeek-V3: —

BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.7DeepSeek-V3
Terminal-Bench80.2%—
APEX-Agents49.2%—
OSWorld 2.018.2%—
τ²-bench Banking40.2%—
PostTrainBench28.6%—
ExploitBench26.5%—
GBAEval43.8%—
GDP.pdf21%—
LMArena Search1233—
METR Time Horizons—49.6%
Vending-Bench 210,937—

Reasoning Claude Opus 4.7 leads

Claude Opus 4.7: 53.8 (#29), DeepSeek-V3: 20.5 (#236)

BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.7DeepSeek-V3
SimpleBench61.7%27.2%
Kagi LLM Benchmark80.7%52.3%
CritPt12%0%
LMArena Hard Prompts15061365
DTBench94.7%64.8%
LMCA52.2%15.5%
Epoch Capabilities Index156.25135.94
ForecastBench60.359.1
ARC-AGI-275.8%—
NYT Connections (extended)39%—
ARC-AGI-193.5%—
Chess Puzzles30%—
Thematic Generalization72.8%—
EBR-Bench19%—
LiveBench Reasoning—65.8%
Mystery Game Puzzles28%—
LiveBench Data Analysis—60.9%
BIG-Bench Hard—87.5%
HellaSwag—88.9%
LiveBench—66.9%
PIQA—84.7%
WinoGrande—85.2%

Math Claude Opus 4.7 leads

Claude Opus 4.7: 66.7 (#26), DeepSeek-V3: 32.1 (#219)

BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.7DeepSeek-V3
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202597.8%37.8%
LMArena Math14991373
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)43.8%1.7%
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)70.2%—
FrontierMath Tier 431.7%—
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions73.6%—
ProofBench54%—
Omni-MATH—40.3%
LiveBench Math—73.5%
MATH Level 5—75.5%
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)22.9%—

Knowledge Claude Opus 4.7 leads

Claude Opus 4.7: 62.6 (#23), DeepSeek-V3: 37.5 (#155)

BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.7DeepSeek-V3
GPQA Diamond90.2%67.6%
Vectara Hallucination Rate12%6.1%
LMArena Expert15211351
Humanity's Last Exam36.2%—
SimpleQA Verified51.7%—
MMLU-Pro—72.3%
Confabulations—26.1%
GPQA (HELM)—53.8%
ARC (AI2) Challenge—95.3%
MMLU—87.2%
TriviaQA—82.9%

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.7: 41.2 (#38), DeepSeek-V3: —

BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.7DeepSeek-V3
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-V3: 48.5 (#143)

BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.7DeepSeek-V3
LMArena Non-English14801358
LMArena Chinese15311391
LMArena French15031385
LMArena German14951374
LMArena Japanese14721333
LMArena Korean14641319
LMArena Russian14941373
LMArena Spanish14951358

Instruction Following Claude Opus 4.7 leads

Claude Opus 4.7: 78.4 (#10), DeepSeek-V3: 72.8 (#130)

BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.7DeepSeek-V3
LMArena Instruction Following14981345
LiveBench Instruction Following—81.5%
IFEval—83.2%

Long Context Claude Opus 4.7 leads

Claude Opus 4.7: 46.2 (#25), DeepSeek-V3: 34.0 (#253)

BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.7DeepSeek-V3
LMArena Longer Query15051352
Fiction.LiveBench—50%

Writing & Preference Claude Opus 4.7 leads

Claude Opus 4.7: 75.1 (#8), DeepSeek-V3: 57.4 (#130)

BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.7DeepSeek-V3
LMArena Text14901375
LMArena Creative Writing14861364
EQ-Bench Creative Writing19141472
LMArena Multi-Turn15051389
Short-Story Creative Writing—77%
WildBench—83%
EQ-Bench 41311—
LiveBench Language—49.1%

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Opus 4.7 better than DeepSeek-V3?

Claude Opus 4.7 is the stronger model overall, scoring 58.3 to 39.5 on the Noometry Index. DeepSeek-V3 costs 25× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Claude Opus 4.7's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Which is cheaper, Claude Opus 4.7 or DeepSeek-V3?

DeepSeek-V3 is cheaper. It lists at $0.24 per million input tokens and $0.90 per million output tokens; Claude Opus 4.7 lists at $5 and $25.

Is Claude Opus 4.7 or DeepSeek-V3 better for coding?

Claude Opus 4.7 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 59.6 versus 42.3 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Claude Opus 4.7 does, with 1M tokens against 164K.

How many benchmarks do Claude Opus 4.7 and DeepSeek-V3 share?

31 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Opus 4.7 has 66 scored results on Noometry and DeepSeek-V3 has 60.

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