# DeepSeek-V3 vs GPT-4

> DeepSeek-V3 is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.2 to 28.9 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/deepseek-v3-vs-gpt-4
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 35

## Summary

- They share 35 benchmarks with published results for both. DeepSeek-V3 scores higher in 7 categories and GPT-4 in 1 category; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where DeepSeek-V3 leads 57.6 to 35.0.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is MATH Level 5: 75.5% for DeepSeek-V3 and 23% for GPT-4.
- DeepSeek-V3 is cheaper at $0.24 / $0.90 per million input/output tokens, against $30 / $60 for GPT-4.
- DeepSeek-V3 accepts more context: 164K tokens versus 8K.
- DeepSeek-V3 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | DeepSeek-V3 | GPT-4 |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | DeepSeek | OpenAI |
| Noometry Index | 39.2 | 28.9 |
| Rank | 157 | 308 |
| Context | 164K | 8K |
| Input $/M | $0.24 | $30 |
| Output $/M | $0.90 | $60 |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |

## Coding

- DeepSeek-V3: 41.9 (#99)
- GPT-4: 31.2 (#277)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek-V3 | GPT-4 |
|---|---|---|
| WeirdML | 36.1% | 12.4% |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 50% | 46% |
| LMArena Coding | 1368 | 1254 |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 62.2% | 57.2% |
| HumanEval+ | 86.6% | 79.3% |
| Aider Polyglot | 55.1% | — |
| SciCode | 35.8% | — |
| LiveBench Coding | 70.9% | — |
| MBPP+ | 73% | — |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- DeepSeek-V3: —
- GPT-4: —

| Benchmark | DeepSeek-V3 | GPT-4 |
|---|---|---|
| METR Time Horizons | 49.6% | 36.1% |

## Reasoning

- DeepSeek-V3: 20.0 (#226)
- GPT-4: 17.3 (#285)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek-V3 | GPT-4 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1365 | 1241 |
| DTBench | 64.8% | 62.7% |
| LMCA | 15.5% | 17.1% |
| BIG-Bench Hard | 87.5% | 75.1% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 135.95 | 125.88 |
| ForecastBench | 59.1 | 57.8 |
| HellaSwag | 88.9% | 95.3% |
| WinoGrande | 85.2% | 87.5% |
| SimpleBench | 27.2% | — |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 52.3% | — |
| CritPt | 0% | — |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 4% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 65.8% | — |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | — | 12% |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 60.9% | — |
| LiveBench | 66.9% | — |
| PIQA | 84.7% | — |

## Math

- DeepSeek-V3: 30.4 (#208)
- GPT-4: 10.1 (#304)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek-V3 | GPT-4 |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 37.8% | 1.1% |
| LMArena Math | 1373 | 1269 |
| MATH Level 5 | 75.5% | 23% |
| Omni-MATH | 40.3% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 73.5% | — |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 1.7% | — |
| GSM8K | — | 92% |

## Knowledge

- DeepSeek-V3: 37.5 (#147)
- GPT-4: 18.4 (#277)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek-V3 | GPT-4 |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 67.6% | 35.7% |
| LMArena Expert | 1352 | 1211 |
| MMLU | 87.2% | 86.4% |
| TriviaQA | 82.9% | 84.8% |
| MMLU-Pro | 72.3% | — |
| Confabulations | 26.1% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 6.1% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 53.8% | — |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 95.3% | — |

## Multilingual

- DeepSeek-V3: 48.8 (#138)
- GPT-4: 40.8 (#210)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek-V3 | GPT-4 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1358 | 1246 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1390 | 1242 |
| LMArena French | 1386 | 1282 |
| LMArena German | 1374 | 1251 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1333 | 1209 |
| LMArena Korean | 1321 | 1184 |
| LMArena Russian | 1372 | 1251 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1358 | 1261 |

## Instruction Following

- DeepSeek-V3: 73.0 (#125)
- GPT-4: 65.5 (#217)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek-V3 | GPT-4 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1345 | 1241 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 81.5% | — |
| IFEval | 83.2% | — |

## Long Context

- DeepSeek-V3: 34.0 (#248)
- GPT-4: 37.7 (#207)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek-V3 | GPT-4 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1353 | 1244 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | 50% | — |

## Writing & Preference

- DeepSeek-V3: 57.6 (#124)
- GPT-4: 35.0 (#263)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek-V3 | GPT-4 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1375 | 1263 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1364 | 1244 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1472 | 752 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1389 | 1257 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 77% | — |
| WildBench | 83% | — |
| LiveBench Language | 49.1% | — |

## FAQ

### Is DeepSeek-V3 better than GPT-4?

DeepSeek-V3 is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.2 to 28.9 on the Noometry Index.

### Which is cheaper, DeepSeek-V3 or GPT-4?

DeepSeek-V3 is cheaper. It lists at $0.24 per million input tokens and $0.90 per million output tokens; GPT-4 lists at $30 and $60.

### Is DeepSeek-V3 or GPT-4 better for coding?

DeepSeek-V3 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 41.9 versus 31.2 in the Noometry coding category.

### Which has the bigger context window?

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

### How many benchmarks do DeepSeek-V3 and GPT-4 share?

35 benchmarks have published results for both models. DeepSeek-V3 has 60 scored results on Noometry and GPT-4 has 38.