Model comparison

Claude Opus 4.8 vs DeepSeek Coder 6.7B

Claude Opus 4.8 has enough public results to be ranked (#13); DeepSeek Coder 6.7B 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 6.7B DeepSeek

37.6

Unranked Sparse

Summary

  • They share 1 benchmark with published results for both. Claude Opus 4.8 scores higher in 1 category and DeepSeek Coder 6.7B 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 35.8.
  • DeepSeek Coder 6.7B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude Opus 4.8 and DeepSeek Coder 6.7B specifications
Claude Opus 4.8DeepSeek Coder 6.7B
ProviderAnthropicDeepSeek
Noometry Index60.737.6
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 6.7B: 35.8 (#219)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8DeepSeek Coder 6.7B
DeepSWE59%—
FrontierCode46.5%—
LMArena WebDev1556—
SciCode53.5%—
GSO47.1%—
WeirdML82.9%—
BigCodeBench Instruct—35.5%
LMArena Coding1490—
BigCodeBench Complete—43.8%
ALE-Bench1,564—
HumanEval+—71.3%
MBPP+—65.6%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.8: 47.6 (#11), DeepSeek Coder 6.7B: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8DeepSeek Coder 6.7B
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 6.7B: —

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8DeepSeek Coder 6.7B
Epoch Capabilities Index158.2189.62
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—57.6%

Math Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.8: 78.4 (#13), DeepSeek Coder 6.7B: —

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8DeepSeek Coder 6.7B
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—21.3%

Knowledge Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.8: 61.3 (#29), DeepSeek Coder 6.7B: —

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8DeepSeek Coder 6.7B
GPQA Diamond91%—
SimpleQA Verified53%—
LMArena Expert1502—
ARC (AI2) Challenge—36.4%
MMLU—36.4%

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.8: 42.9 (#26), DeepSeek Coder 6.7B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8DeepSeek Coder 6.7B
LMArena Vision1294—
Blueprint-Bench 214.5%—
Furniture Assembly42.5%—
LMArena Document1475—

Multilingual Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.8: 55.2 (#33), DeepSeek Coder 6.7B: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8DeepSeek Coder 6.7B
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 6.7B: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8DeepSeek Coder 6.7B
LMArena Instruction Following1476—

Long Context Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.8: 45.4 (#35), DeepSeek Coder 6.7B: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8DeepSeek Coder 6.7B
LMArena Longer Query1483—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.8: 72.0 (#16), DeepSeek Coder 6.7B: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8DeepSeek Coder 6.7B
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 6.7B?

Claude Opus 4.8 has enough public results to be ranked (#13); DeepSeek Coder 6.7B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Is Claude Opus 4.8 or DeepSeek Coder 6.7B better for coding?

Claude Opus 4.8 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 59.9 versus 35.8 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude Opus 4.8 and DeepSeek Coder 6.7B share?

1 benchmark has published results for both models. Claude Opus 4.8 has 65 scored results on Noometry and DeepSeek Coder 6.7B has 9.

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