# Claude 2 vs DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024)

> Claude 2 has enough public results to be ranked (#342); DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/claude-2-vs-deepseek-v2
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 3

## Summary

- They share 3 benchmarks with published results for both.
- DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Claude 2 | DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | DeepSeek |
| Noometry Index | 24.7 | 39.7 |
| Rank | 342 | — |
| Context | — | — |
| Input $/M | — | — |
| Output $/M | — | — |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- Claude 2: —
- DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024): 39.8 (#141)

| Benchmark | Claude 2 | DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 48.9% |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 59.4% |
| HumanEval+ | 61.6% | — |

## Reasoning

- Claude 2: 20.8 (#213)
- DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024): —

| Benchmark | Claude 2 | DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 120.08 | 124.78 |
| DTBench | 51.9% | — |
| BIG-Bench Hard | — | 78.8% |
| HellaSwag | — | 87.1% |
| PIQA | — | 83.9% |
| WinoGrande | — | 86.3% |

## Math

- Claude 2: 8.7 (#314)
- DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024): —

| Benchmark | Claude 2 | DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 2.5% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 11.7% | — |

## Knowledge

- Claude 2: 17.0 (#282)
- DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024): —

| Benchmark | Claude 2 | DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| MMLU | 78.5% | 78.4% |
| TriviaQA | 87.5% | 80% |
| GPQA Diamond | 34.7% | — |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | — | 92.2% |

## FAQ

### Is Claude 2 better than DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024)?

Claude 2 has enough public results to be ranked (#342); DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

### How many benchmarks do Claude 2 and DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) share?

3 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 2 has 8 scored results on Noometry and DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) has 10.