Anthropic Claude 2 vs DeepSeek DeepSeek-V4-Pro — side-by-side specs.
Anthropic Claude 2 | DeepSeek DeepSeek-V4-Pro | |
|---|---|---|
| Overview | ||
| Company | Anthropic | DeepSeek |
| Release date | Jul 11 2023 | Apr 24 2026 |
| Model type | — | — |
| Open source | No | Yes |
| Specifications | ||
Parameters | — | — |
Context window | — | — |
| Benchmarks | ||
Science GPQA DiamondGraduate-level science questions in biology, physics, and chemistry — hard enough that subject-matter PhDs score around 65%. Higher is better. | — | 90.1% |
| Timeline | ||
| Release gap | Claude 2 shipped 1018 days before DeepSeek-V4-Pro | |
Claude 2 and DeepSeek-V4-Pro don't publish scores on any of the same benchmarks, so there's no direct head-to-head comparison. Claude 2 shipped 1018 days before DeepSeek-V4-Pro, so benchmark comparisons should account for the intervening progress.
DeepSeek-V4-Pro is an open-source / open-weight model; Claude 2 is proprietary.
Direct benchmark comparisons are unavailable — Claude 2 and DeepSeek-V4-Pro don't publish scores on any of the same benchmarks.