Model comparison
DeepSeek-R1 vs o3-pro
DeepSeek-R1 and o3-pro score almost the same on the Noometry Index (42.3 vs 42.9), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Last verified . 10 shared benchmarks.
DeepSeekSummary
- They share 10 benchmarks with published results for both. DeepSeek-R1 scores higher in 2 categories and o3-pro in 3 categories; 5 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in long context, where o3-pro leads 72.2 to 45.4.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is ARC-AGI-1: 21.2% for DeepSeek-R1 and 59.3% for o3-pro.
- DeepSeek-R1 is cheaper at $0.50 / $2.15 per million input/output tokens, against $20 / $80 for o3-pro.
- o3-pro accepts more context: 200K tokens versus 164K.
Side by side
| DeepSeek-R1 | o3-pro | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | DeepSeek | OpenAI |
| Noometry Index | 42.3 | 42.9 |
| Released | 2025-01-20 | 2025-06-10 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| Context window | 164K | 200K |
| Max output | 64K | 100K |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.50 | $20 |
| Output $ / M tokens | $2.15 | $80 |
| Results tracked | 52 | 12 |
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Category by category
Coding o3-pro leads
DeepSeek-R1: 46.3 (#68), o3-pro: 55.5 (#24)
| Benchmark | DeepSeek-R1 | o3-pro |
|---|---|---|
| Aider Polyglot | 71.4% | 84.9% |
| WeirdML | 41.6% | 58.2% |
| SciCode | 35.7% | — |
| LiveBench Coding | 66.7% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1427 | — |
| ALE-Bench | 804.12 | — |
| AlgoTune | 1.7 | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
DeepSeek-R1: 30.7 (#75), o3-pro: —
| Benchmark | DeepSeek-R1 | o3-pro |
|---|---|---|
| DeepResearch Bench | 35.1% | — |
| BALROG | 34.9% | — |
| METR Time Horizons | 53.8% | — |
Reasoning o3-pro leads
DeepSeek-R1: 18.6 (#278), o3-pro: 23.8 (#171)
| Benchmark | DeepSeek-R1 | o3-pro |
|---|---|---|
| ARC-AGI-2 | 1.3% | 4.9% |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 69.4% | 72.1% |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 21.2% | 59.3% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 141.29 | 147.42 |
| SimpleBench | 40.8% | — |
| CritPt | 1.1% | — |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 83.2% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1416 | — |
| DTBench | — | 86.9% |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 69.8% | — |
| LMCA | — | 38.5% |
| ForecastBench | 60 | — |
| LiveBench | 71.6% | — |
Math Not comparable
DeepSeek-R1: 43.8 (#79), o3-pro: —
| Benchmark | DeepSeek-R1 | o3-pro |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 66.4% | — |
| Omni-MATH | 42.4% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 80.7% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1400 | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 96.6% | — |
Knowledge DeepSeek-R1 leads
DeepSeek-R1: 44.5 (#87), o3-pro: 29.5 (#238)
| Benchmark | DeepSeek-R1 | o3-pro |
|---|---|---|
| Confabulations | 12.7% | 14.2% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 11.3% | 23.3% |
| GPQA Diamond | 76.3% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | 79.3% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 66.6% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1394 | — |
Multilingual Not comparable
DeepSeek-R1: 52.4 (#85), o3-pro: —
| Benchmark | DeepSeek-R1 | o3-pro |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1412 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1442 | — |
| LMArena French | 1417 | — |
| LMArena German | 1404 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1391 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1360 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1423 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1411 | — |
Instruction Following Not comparable
DeepSeek-R1: 72.0 (#143), o3-pro: —
| Benchmark | DeepSeek-R1 | o3-pro |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 80.5% | — |
| IFEval | 78.4% | — |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1382 | — |
Long Context o3-pro leads
DeepSeek-R1: 45.4 (#36), o3-pro: 72.2 (#1)
| Benchmark | DeepSeek-R1 | o3-pro |
|---|---|---|
| Fiction.LiveBench | 75% | 97.2% |
| LMArena Longer Query | 1391 | — |
Writing & Preference DeepSeek-R1 leads
DeepSeek-R1: 61.4 (#88), o3-pro: 57.1 (#133)
| Benchmark | DeepSeek-R1 | o3-pro |
|---|---|---|
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 83% | 84.4% |
| LMArena Text | 1428 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1405 | — |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1500 | — |
| WildBench | 82.8% | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1405 | — |
| LiveBench Language | 48.5% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is DeepSeek-R1 better than o3-pro?
DeepSeek-R1 and o3-pro score almost the same on the Noometry Index (42.3 vs 42.9), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Which is cheaper, DeepSeek-R1 or o3-pro?
DeepSeek-R1 is cheaper. It lists at $0.50 per million input tokens and $2.15 per million output tokens; o3-pro lists at $20 and $80.
Is DeepSeek-R1 or o3-pro better for coding?
o3-pro scores higher on coding benchmarks: 55.5 versus 46.3 in the Noometry coding category.
Which has the bigger context window?
o3-pro does, with 200K tokens against 164K.
How many benchmarks do DeepSeek-R1 and o3-pro share?
10 benchmarks have published results for both models. DeepSeek-R1 has 52 scored results on Noometry and o3-pro has 12.