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Claude 3.5 Sonnet vs DeepSeek V3 vs GPT-4o (2024-11-20)

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Winner summary

Claude 3.5 Sonnet wins 14 of 28 shared benchmarks. Leads in coding · general · knowledge.

Category leads
coding·Claude 3.5 Sonnetgeneral·Claude 3.5 Sonnetmath·DeepSeek V3knowledge·Claude 3.5 Sonnetlanguage·Claude 3.5 Sonnetreasoning·DeepSeek V3arena·Claude 3.5 Sonnetagentic·Claude 3.5 Sonnetmultimodal·GPT-4o (2024-11-20)
Hype vs Reality
Claude 3.5 Sonnet
#205 by perf·no signal
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DeepSeek V3
#80 by perf·no signal
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GPT-4o (2024-11-20)
#255 by perf·no signal
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Best value
17.9x better value than GPT-4o (2024-11-20)
Claude 3.5 Sonnet
n/a
no price
DeepSeek V3
92.9 pts/$
$0.60/M
GPT-4o (2024-11-20)
5.2 pts/$
$6.25/M
Vendor risk
One or more vendors flagged
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Anthropic
$965.0B·Tier 1
Medium risk
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DeepSeek
$3.4B·Tier 1
Higher risk
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OpenAI
$840.0B·Tier 1
Medium risk
Head to head
Claude 3.5 SonnetDeepSeek V3GPT-4o (2024-11-20)
Aider polyglot
Claude 3.5 Sonnet leads by +3.2
Aider Polyglot · measures how well AI models can edit code across multiple programming languages using the Aider coding assistant framework.
Claude 3.5 Sonnet
51.6
DeepSeek V3
48.4
GPT-4o (2024-11-20)
23.1
Dtbench
Claude 3.5 Sonnet leads by +5.0
Claude 3.5 Sonnet
46.3
DeepSeek V3
41.3
GPT-4o (2024-11-20)
40.9
FrontierMath-2025-02-28-Private
DeepSeek V3 leads by +1.2
FrontierMath (Feb 2025) · original research-level math problems created by mathematicians, testing capabilities at the boundary of current AI mathematical reasoning.
Claude 3.5 Sonnet
1.8
DeepSeek V3
3.0
GPT-4o (2024-11-20)
0.3
GPQA diamond
DeepSeek V3 leads by +5.1
Graduate-Level Google-Proof QA (Diamond set) · expert-crafted questions in physics, biology, and chemistry that are difficult even for domain PhDs.
Claude 3.5 Sonnet
38.7
DeepSeek V3
43.8
GPT-4o (2024-11-20)
30.5
HELM · GPQA
Claude 3.5 Sonnet leads by +2.7
Claude 3.5 Sonnet
56.5
DeepSeek V3
53.8
GPT-4o (2024-11-20)
52.0
HELM · IFEval
Claude 3.5 Sonnet leads by +2.4
Claude 3.5 Sonnet
85.6
DeepSeek V3
83.2
GPT-4o (2024-11-20)
81.7
HELM · MMLU-Pro
Claude 3.5 Sonnet leads by +5.4
Claude 3.5 Sonnet
77.7
DeepSeek V3
72.3
GPT-4o (2024-11-20)
71.3
HELM · Omni-MATH
DeepSeek V3 leads by +11.0
Claude 3.5 Sonnet
27.6
DeepSeek V3
40.3
GPT-4o (2024-11-20)
29.3
HELM · WildBench
DeepSeek V3 leads by +0.3
Claude 3.5 Sonnet
79.2
DeepSeek V3
83.1
GPT-4o (2024-11-20)
82.8
Lech Mazur Writing
GPT-4o (2024-11-20) leads by +1.5
Lech Mazur Writing · evaluates creative writing ability, assessing prose quality, narrative coherence, and stylistic sophistication.
Claude 3.5 Sonnet
80.3
DeepSeek V3
77.0
GPT-4o (2024-11-20)
81.8
MATH level 5
DeepSeek V3 leads by +13.2
MATH Level 5 · the hardest tier of the MATH benchmark, featuring competition-level problems from AMC, AIME, and Olympiad-style mathematics.
Claude 3.5 Sonnet
51.7
DeepSeek V3
64.8
GPT-4o (2024-11-20)
49.8
Metr Time Horizons
DeepSeek V3 leads by +6.6
Claude 3.5 Sonnet
40.1
DeepSeek V3
47.4
GPT-4o (2024-11-20)
40.8
MMLU
GPT-4o (2024-11-20) leads by +1.2
Massive Multitask Language Understanding · 57 subjects spanning STEM, humanities, social sciences, and more. The standard benchmark for broad knowledge.
Claude 3.5 Sonnet
82.0
DeepSeek V3
82.9
GPT-4o (2024-11-20)
84.1
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025
DeepSeek V3 leads by +9.3
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 · simulated American Invitational Mathematics Examination problems testing advanced problem-solving skills.
Claude 3.5 Sonnet
6.4
DeepSeek V3
15.8
GPT-4o (2024-11-20)
6.2
SimpleBench
Claude 3.5 Sonnet leads by +10.3
SimpleBench · tests fundamental reasoning capabilities with straightforward problems designed to expose gaps in basic logical and spatial thinking.
Claude 3.5 Sonnet
13.0
DeepSeek V3
2.7
GPT-4o (2024-11-20)
1.4
WeirdML
DeepSeek V3 leads by +5.1
WeirdML · tests models on unusual and adversarial machine learning tasks that require creative problem-solving beyond standard patterns.
Claude 3.5 Sonnet
31.0
DeepSeek V3
36.1
GPT-4o (2024-11-20)
25.1
Aider · Code Editing
Claude 3.5 Sonnet leads by +12.8
Claude 3.5 Sonnet
84.2
GPT-4o (2024-11-20)
71.4
Chatbot Arena Elo · Overall
Claude 3.5 Sonnet leads by +15.5
Claude 3.5 Sonnet
1374.0
DeepSeek V3
1358.4
Balrog
Claude 3.5 Sonnet leads by +0.3
Balrog · benchmarks AI agents on text-based adventure games, testing language understanding, strategic planning, and long-horizon reasoning.
Claude 3.5 Sonnet
32.6
GPT-4o (2024-11-20)
32.3
CadEval
Claude 3.5 Sonnet leads by +22.0
CadEval · evaluates the ability to generate and reason about Computer-Aided Design code, testing spatial reasoning and engineering knowledge.
Claude 3.5 Sonnet
48.0
GPT-4o (2024-11-20)
26.0
Cybench
Claude 3.5 Sonnet leads by +5.0
Cybench · evaluates AI on real Capture-The-Flag cybersecurity challenges, testing vulnerability analysis, exploitation, and security reasoning.
Claude 3.5 Sonnet
17.5
GPT-4o (2024-11-20)
12.5
GeoBench
GPT-4o (2024-11-20) leads by +9.0
GeoBench · tests geographic knowledge and spatial reasoning across countries, landmarks, coordinates, and geopolitical understanding.
Claude 3.5 Sonnet
62.0
GPT-4o (2024-11-20)
71.0
GSO-Bench
Claude 3.5 Sonnet leads by +4.6
GSO-Bench · evaluates AI models on real-world open-source software engineering tasks, testing the ability to understand and resolve actual GitHub issues.
Claude 3.5 Sonnet
4.6
GPT-4o (2024-11-20)
0.0
HLE
HLE (Humanity's Last Exam) · a reasoning benchmark designed to be the hardest public evaluation of AI. Questions span mathematics, physics, philosophy, and logic · curated to be at or beyond the frontier of human expert capability. Tested with and without tool augmentation.
Claude 3.5 Sonnet
0.0
GPT-4o (2024-11-20)
0.0
Lmca
GPT-4o (2024-11-20) leads by +1.3
DeepSeek V3
18.2
GPT-4o (2024-11-20)
19.5
The Agent Company
Claude 3.5 Sonnet leads by +15.4
The Agent Company · tests AI agents on realistic corporate tasks like email management, code review, data analysis, and cross-tool workflows.
Claude 3.5 Sonnet
24.0
GPT-4o (2024-11-20)
8.6
VideoMME
GPT-4o (2024-11-20) leads by +15.9
VideoMME · multimodal benchmark testing video understanding across diverse domains, requiring temporal reasoning and cross-frame comprehension.
Claude 3.5 Sonnet
46.7
GPT-4o (2024-11-20)
62.5
VPCT
GPT-4o (2024-11-20) leads by +10.0
VPCT (Visual Pattern Completion Test) · tests visual reasoning and pattern recognition by having models complete visual sequences and transformations.
Claude 3.5 Sonnet
0.0
GPT-4o (2024-11-20)
10.0
Full benchmark table
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 SonnetDeepSeek V3GPT-4o (2024-11-20)
Aider polyglot
Aider Polyglot · measures how well AI models can edit code across multiple programming languages using the Aider coding assistant framework.
51.648.423.1
Dtbench
46.341.340.9
FrontierMath-2025-02-28-Private
FrontierMath (Feb 2025) · original research-level math problems created by mathematicians, testing capabilities at the boundary of current AI mathematical reasoning.
1.83.00.3
GPQA diamond
Graduate-Level Google-Proof QA (Diamond set) · expert-crafted questions in physics, biology, and chemistry that are difficult even for domain PhDs.
38.743.830.5
HELM · GPQA
56.553.852.0
HELM · IFEval
85.683.281.7
HELM · MMLU-Pro
77.772.371.3
HELM · Omni-MATH
27.640.329.3
HELM · WildBench
79.283.182.8
Lech Mazur Writing
Lech Mazur Writing · evaluates creative writing ability, assessing prose quality, narrative coherence, and stylistic sophistication.
80.377.081.8
MATH level 5
MATH Level 5 · the hardest tier of the MATH benchmark, featuring competition-level problems from AMC, AIME, and Olympiad-style mathematics.
51.764.849.8
Metr Time Horizons
40.147.440.8
MMLU
Massive Multitask Language Understanding · 57 subjects spanning STEM, humanities, social sciences, and more. The standard benchmark for broad knowledge.
82.082.984.1
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 · simulated American Invitational Mathematics Examination problems testing advanced problem-solving skills.
6.415.86.2
SimpleBench
SimpleBench · tests fundamental reasoning capabilities with straightforward problems designed to expose gaps in basic logical and spatial thinking.
13.02.71.4
WeirdML
WeirdML · tests models on unusual and adversarial machine learning tasks that require creative problem-solving beyond standard patterns.
31.036.125.1
Aider · Code Editing
84.2n/a71.4
Chatbot Arena Elo · Overall
1374.01358.4n/a
Balrog
Balrog · benchmarks AI agents on text-based adventure games, testing language understanding, strategic planning, and long-horizon reasoning.
32.6n/a32.3
CadEval
CadEval · evaluates the ability to generate and reason about Computer-Aided Design code, testing spatial reasoning and engineering knowledge.
48.0n/a26.0
Cybench
Cybench · evaluates AI on real Capture-The-Flag cybersecurity challenges, testing vulnerability analysis, exploitation, and security reasoning.
17.5n/a12.5
GeoBench
GeoBench · tests geographic knowledge and spatial reasoning across countries, landmarks, coordinates, and geopolitical understanding.
62.0n/a71.0
GSO-Bench
GSO-Bench · evaluates AI models on real-world open-source software engineering tasks, testing the ability to understand and resolve actual GitHub issues.
4.6n/a0.0
HLE
HLE (Humanity's Last Exam) · a reasoning benchmark designed to be the hardest public evaluation of AI. Questions span mathematics, physics, philosophy, and logic · curated to be at or beyond the frontier of human expert capability. Tested with and without tool augmentation.
0.0n/a0.0
Lmca
n/a18.219.5
The Agent Company
The Agent Company · tests AI agents on realistic corporate tasks like email management, code review, data analysis, and cross-tool workflows.
24.0n/a8.6
VideoMME
VideoMME · multimodal benchmark testing video understanding across diverse domains, requiring temporal reasoning and cross-frame comprehension.
46.7n/a62.5
VPCT
VPCT (Visual Pattern Completion Test) · tests visual reasoning and pattern recognition by having models complete visual sequences and transformations.
0.0n/a10.0
Pricing · per 1M tokens · projected $/mo at 10M tokens
ModelInputOutputContextProjected $/mo
Anthropic logoClaude 3.5 Sonnetn/an/an/an/a
DeepSeek logoDeepSeek V3$0.32$0.89164K tokens (~82 books)$4.63
OpenAI logoGPT-4o (2024-11-20)$2.50$10.00128K tokens (~64 books)$43.75