Model comparison

DeepSeek-V3.1-Terminus vs GPT-4

DeepSeek-V3.1-Terminus is the stronger model overall, scoring 43.1 to 29.1 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 12 shared benchmarks.

DeepSeek-V3.1-Terminus DeepSeek

43.1

Rank #97 Confirmed

GPT-4 OpenAI

29.1

Rank #316 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 12 benchmarks with published results for both. DeepSeek-V3.1-Terminus scores higher in 7 categories and GPT-4 in 0 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where DeepSeek-V3.1-Terminus leads 38.5 to 10.8.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is DTBench: 81.3% for DeepSeek-V3.1-Terminus and 62.7% for GPT-4.
  • DeepSeek-V3.1-Terminus is cheaper at $0.27 / $1 per million input/output tokens, against $30 / $60 for GPT-4.
  • DeepSeek-V3.1-Terminus accepts more context: 164K tokens versus 8K.
  • DeepSeek-V3.1-Terminus has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

DeepSeek-V3.1-Terminus and GPT-4 specifications
DeepSeek-V3.1-TerminusGPT-4
ProviderDeepSeekOpenAI
Noometry Index43.129.1
Released2025-09-222023-03-14
WeightsOpenProprietary
Context window164K8K
Max output147K8K
Input $ / M tokens$0.27$30
Output $ / M tokens$1$60
Results tracked1638

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Category by category

Coding DeepSeek-V3.1-Terminus leads

DeepSeek-V3.1-Terminus: 42.0 (#113), GPT-4: 31.6 (#283)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek-V3.1-TerminusGPT-4
LMArena Coding14261254
SciCode40.6%—
WeirdML—12.4%
BigCodeBench Instruct—46%
BigCodeBench Complete—57.2%
ALE-Bench745.17—
HumanEval+—79.3%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

DeepSeek-V3.1-Terminus: —, GPT-4: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek-V3.1-TerminusGPT-4
METR Time Horizons—36.1%

Reasoning DeepSeek-V3.1-Terminus leads

DeepSeek-V3.1-Terminus: 26.4 (#133), GPT-4: 17.8 (#289)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek-V3.1-TerminusGPT-4
LMArena Hard Prompts14261241
DTBench81.3%62.7%
LMCA28.6%17.1%
Kagi LLM Benchmark57.4%—
CritPt1.7%—
Chess Puzzles—4%
Mystery Game Puzzles—12%
BIG-Bench Hard—75.1%
Epoch Capabilities Index—125.89
ForecastBench—57.8
HellaSwag—95.3%
WinoGrande—87.5%

Math DeepSeek-V3.1-Terminus leads

DeepSeek-V3.1-Terminus: 38.5 (#137), GPT-4: 10.8 (#309)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek-V3.1-TerminusGPT-4
LMArena Math14021269
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—1.1%
MATH Level 5—23%
GSM8K—92%

Knowledge Not comparable

DeepSeek-V3.1-Terminus: —, GPT-4: 18.4 (#282)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek-V3.1-TerminusGPT-4
GPQA Diamond—35.7%
LMArena Expert—1211
MMLU—86.4%
TriviaQA—84.8%

Multilingual DeepSeek-V3.1-Terminus leads

DeepSeek-V3.1-Terminus: 52.1 (#92), GPT-4: 40.6 (#215)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek-V3.1-TerminusGPT-4
LMArena Non-English14071246
LMArena Russian14361251
LMArena Chinese—1242
LMArena French—1283
LMArena German—1251
LMArena Japanese—1209
LMArena Korean—1184
LMArena Spanish—1261

Instruction Following DeepSeek-V3.1-Terminus leads

DeepSeek-V3.1-Terminus: 74.0 (#106), GPT-4: 65.3 (#222)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek-V3.1-TerminusGPT-4
LMArena Instruction Following14041241

Long Context DeepSeek-V3.1-Terminus leads

DeepSeek-V3.1-Terminus: 43.4 (#97), GPT-4: 37.7 (#212)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek-V3.1-TerminusGPT-4
LMArena Longer Query14211244

Writing & Preference DeepSeek-V3.1-Terminus leads

DeepSeek-V3.1-Terminus: 61.0 (#92), GPT-4: 34.9 (#268)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek-V3.1-TerminusGPT-4
LMArena Text14191263
LMArena Creative Writing14031244
LMArena Multi-Turn14111257
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—752

Frequently asked questions

Is DeepSeek-V3.1-Terminus better than GPT-4?

DeepSeek-V3.1-Terminus is the stronger model overall, scoring 43.1 to 29.1 on the Noometry Index.

Which is cheaper, DeepSeek-V3.1-Terminus or GPT-4?

DeepSeek-V3.1-Terminus is cheaper. It lists at $0.27 per million input tokens and $1 per million output tokens; GPT-4 lists at $30 and $60.

Is DeepSeek-V3.1-Terminus or GPT-4 better for coding?

DeepSeek-V3.1-Terminus scores higher on coding benchmarks: 42.0 versus 31.6 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

DeepSeek-V3.1-Terminus does, with 164K tokens against 8K.

How many benchmarks do DeepSeek-V3.1-Terminus and GPT-4 share?

12 benchmarks have published results for both models. DeepSeek-V3.1-Terminus has 16 scored results on Noometry and GPT-4 has 38.

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