Model comparison

DeepSeek-V2.5 (Sep 2024) vs GPT-4o mini

DeepSeek-V2.5 (Sep 2024) is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.6 to 25.5 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 22 shared benchmarks.

DeepSeek-V2.5 (Sep 2024) DeepSeek

37.6

Rank #200 Confirmed

GPT-4o mini OpenAI

25.5

Rank #343 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 22 benchmarks with published results for both. DeepSeek-V2.5 (Sep 2024) scores higher in 8 categories and GPT-4o mini in 0 categories; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where DeepSeek-V2.5 (Sep 2024) leads 35.9 to 10.4.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is Aider Polyglot: 17.8% for DeepSeek-V2.5 (Sep 2024) and 3.6% for GPT-4o mini.
  • DeepSeek-V2.5 (Sep 2024) has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

DeepSeek-V2.5 (Sep 2024) and GPT-4o mini specifications
DeepSeek-V2.5 (Sep 2024)GPT-4o mini
ProviderDeepSeekOpenAI
Noometry Index37.625.5
Released2024-09-062024-07-18
WeightsOpenProprietary
Context window—128K
Max output—16K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.15
Output $ / M tokens—$0.60
Results tracked2260

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Category by category

Coding DeepSeek-V2.5 (Sep 2024) leads

DeepSeek-V2.5 (Sep 2024): 31.7 (#281), GPT-4o mini: 22.0 (#335)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek-V2.5 (Sep 2024)GPT-4o mini
Aider Polyglot17.8%3.6%
BigCodeBench Instruct48.6%46.1%
LMArena Coding13091290
BigCodeBench Complete53.2%57.4%
HumanEval+83.5%83.5%
MBPP+74.1%72.2%
WeirdML—11.8%
LiveBench Coding—43.1%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

DeepSeek-V2.5 (Sep 2024): —, GPT-4o mini: 27.5 (#101)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek-V2.5 (Sep 2024)GPT-4o mini
BALROG—17.4%

Reasoning DeepSeek-V2.5 (Sep 2024) leads

DeepSeek-V2.5 (Sep 2024): 25.6 (#145), GPT-4o mini: 8.7 (#347)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek-V2.5 (Sep 2024)GPT-4o mini
LMArena Hard Prompts12891267
ARC-AGI-2—0%
SimpleBench—10.7%
Kagi LLM Benchmark—28.8%
Chess Puzzles—0%
LiveBench Reasoning—32.8%
Mystery Game Puzzles—12%
DTBench—54.4%
LiveBench Data Analysis—50%
LMCA—10.4%
Epoch Capabilities Index—126.56
LiveBench—41.3%
PIQA—88.7%

Math DeepSeek-V2.5 (Sep 2024) leads

DeepSeek-V2.5 (Sep 2024): 35.9 (#177), GPT-4o mini: 10.4 (#314)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek-V2.5 (Sep 2024)GPT-4o mini
LMArena Math12881267
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)—0.7%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—6.9%
Omni-MATH—28%
LiveBench Math—36.3%
MATH Level 5—52.6%
GSM8K—91.3%

Knowledge DeepSeek-V2.5 (Sep 2024) leads

DeepSeek-V2.5 (Sep 2024): 34.8 (#193), GPT-4o mini: 17.7 (#284)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek-V2.5 (Sep 2024)GPT-4o mini
LMArena Expert12661235
GPQA Diamond—37.7%
SimpleQA Verified—8.3%
MMLU-Pro—60.3%
Confabulations—37.2%
GPQA (HELM)—36.8%
BoolQ—88.7%
MMLU—81.8%

Multimodal Not comparable

DeepSeek-V2.5 (Sep 2024): —, GPT-4o mini: 25.9 (#122)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek-V2.5 (Sep 2024)GPT-4o mini
LMArena Vision—1066
Video-MME—64.8%
GeoBench—64%
VPCT—34%

Multilingual Too close to call

DeepSeek-V2.5 (Sep 2024): 42.5 (#193), GPT-4o mini: 42.0 (#199)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek-V2.5 (Sep 2024)GPT-4o mini
LMArena Non-English12731266
LMArena Chinese13181265
LMArena French12891297
LMArena German12581272
LMArena Japanese12281216
LMArena Korean12091195
LMArena Russian12891275
LMArena Spanish12481276

Instruction Following DeepSeek-V2.5 (Sep 2024) leads

DeepSeek-V2.5 (Sep 2024): 67.5 (#194), GPT-4o mini: 61.9 (#239)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek-V2.5 (Sep 2024)GPT-4o mini
LMArena Instruction Following12801258
LiveBench Instruction Following—56.8%
IFEval—78.2%

Long Context Too close to call

DeepSeek-V2.5 (Sep 2024): 39.5 (#174), GPT-4o mini: 39.1 (#186)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek-V2.5 (Sep 2024)GPT-4o mini
LMArena Longer Query13011289

Writing & Preference DeepSeek-V2.5 (Sep 2024) leads

DeepSeek-V2.5 (Sep 2024): 49.8 (#187), GPT-4o mini: 39.5 (#248)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek-V2.5 (Sep 2024)GPT-4o mini
LMArena Text12941286
LMArena Creative Writing12851268
LMArena Multi-Turn12971285
Short-Story Creative Writing—67.2%
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—873
WildBench—79.1%
LiveBench Language—28.6%

Frequently asked questions

Is DeepSeek-V2.5 (Sep 2024) better than GPT-4o mini?

DeepSeek-V2.5 (Sep 2024) is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.6 to 25.5 on the Noometry Index.

Is DeepSeek-V2.5 (Sep 2024) or GPT-4o mini better for coding?

DeepSeek-V2.5 (Sep 2024) scores higher on coding benchmarks: 31.7 versus 22.0 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do DeepSeek-V2.5 (Sep 2024) and GPT-4o mini share?

22 benchmarks have published results for both models. DeepSeek-V2.5 (Sep 2024) has 22 scored results on Noometry and GPT-4o mini has 60.

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