Model comparison

Claude Opus 4.8 vs DeepSeek Coder 33B

Claude Opus 4.8 has enough public results to be ranked (#13); DeepSeek Coder 33B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Last verified . 1 shared benchmarks.

Claude Opus 4.8 Anthropic

60.7

Rank #13 Confirmed

DeepSeek Coder 33B DeepSeek

38.9

Unranked Sparse

Summary

  • They share 1 benchmark with published results for both. Claude Opus 4.8 scores higher in 1 category and DeepSeek Coder 33B in 0 categories; one gap is clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in coding, where Claude Opus 4.8 leads 59.9 to 38.0.
  • DeepSeek Coder 33B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude Opus 4.8 and DeepSeek Coder 33B specifications
Claude Opus 4.8DeepSeek Coder 33B
ProviderAnthropicDeepSeek
Noometry Index60.738.9
Released2026-05-282023-11-02
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1M—
Max output128K—
Input $ / M tokens$5—
Output $ / M tokens$25—
Results tracked659

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Category by category

Coding Claude Opus 4.8 leads

Claude Opus 4.8: 59.9 (#12), DeepSeek Coder 33B: 38.0 (#184)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8DeepSeek Coder 33B
DeepSWE59%—
FrontierCode46.5%—
LMArena WebDev1556—
SciCode53.5%—
GSO47.1%—
WeirdML82.9%—
BigCodeBench Instruct—42%
LMArena Coding1490—
BigCodeBench Complete—51.1%
ALE-Bench1,564—
HumanEval+—75%
MBPP+—70.1%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.8: 47.6 (#11), DeepSeek Coder 33B: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8DeepSeek Coder 33B
APEX-Agents48.9%—
OSWorld 2.020.6%—
Remote Labor Index8.3%—
τ²-bench Banking39.7%—
DeepResearch Bench50.2%—
PostTrainBench33.8%—
GBAEval70.9%—
GDP.pdf24%—
LMArena Search1204—
Vending-Bench 25,787—

Reasoning Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.8: 64.7 (#16), DeepSeek Coder 33B: —

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8DeepSeek Coder 33B
Epoch Capabilities Index158.2196.32
ARC-AGI-272.1%—
SimpleBench64.8%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark88.8%—
NYT Connections (extended)91.1%—
ARC-AGI-192.5%—
CritPt20.9%—
Chess Puzzles34%—
EnigmaEval23.5%—
EBR-Bench28.6%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1482—
Mystery Game Puzzles36%—
DTBench94.9%—
LMCA57.5%—
Surface Evolver Bench87.5%—
Bench to the Future 30.14—
ForecastBench59.9—
WinoGrande—62%

Math Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.8: 78.4 (#13), DeepSeek Coder 33B: —

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8DeepSeek Coder 33B
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)80%—
FrontierMath Tier 456.1%—
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions91.8%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202598.3%—
ProofBench69%—
LMArena Math1487—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)47.2%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)31.3%—
GSM8K—35.4%

Knowledge Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.8: 61.3 (#29), DeepSeek Coder 33B: —

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8DeepSeek Coder 33B
GPQA Diamond91%—
SimpleQA Verified53%—
LMArena Expert1502—
ARC (AI2) Challenge—42.2%
MMLU—39.4%

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.8: 42.9 (#26), DeepSeek Coder 33B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8DeepSeek Coder 33B
LMArena Vision1294—
Blueprint-Bench 214.5%—
Furniture Assembly42.5%—
LMArena Document1475—

Multilingual Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.8: 55.2 (#33), DeepSeek Coder 33B: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8DeepSeek Coder 33B
LMArena Non-English1450—
LMArena Chinese1507—
LMArena French1481—
LMArena German1472—
LMArena Japanese1440—
LMArena Korean1432—
LMArena Russian1474—
LMArena Spanish1466—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.8: 77.4 (#24), DeepSeek Coder 33B: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8DeepSeek Coder 33B
LMArena Instruction Following1476—

Long Context Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.8: 45.4 (#35), DeepSeek Coder 33B: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8DeepSeek Coder 33B
LMArena Longer Query1483—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.8: 72.0 (#16), DeepSeek Coder 33B: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8DeepSeek Coder 33B
LMArena Text1461—
LMArena Creative Writing1454—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1840—
EQ-Bench 41281—
LMArena Multi-Turn1476—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Opus 4.8 better than DeepSeek Coder 33B?

Claude Opus 4.8 has enough public results to be ranked (#13); DeepSeek Coder 33B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Is Claude Opus 4.8 or DeepSeek Coder 33B better for coding?

Claude Opus 4.8 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 59.9 versus 38.0 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude Opus 4.8 and DeepSeek Coder 33B share?

1 benchmark has published results for both models. Claude Opus 4.8 has 65 scored results on Noometry and DeepSeek Coder 33B has 9.

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