Anthropic Claude 3.5 Sonnet vs DeepSeek DeepSeek V3-0324 — side-by-side specs.
Anthropic Claude 3.5 Sonnet | DeepSeek DeepSeek V3-0324 | |
|---|---|---|
| Overview | ||
| Company | Anthropic | DeepSeek |
| Release date | Jun 20 2024 | Mar 24 2025 |
| Model type | — | — |
| Open source | No | Yes |
| Specifications | ||
Parameters | — | — |
Context window | — | — |
| Benchmarks | ||
Coding SWE-Bench VerifiedReal coding tasks pulled from open-source projects — the AI has to find and fix actual bugs. A human-checked version of the original SWE-Bench. Higher is better. | 33.4% | — |
Science GPQA DiamondGraduate-level science questions in biology, physics, and chemistry — hard enough that subject-matter PhDs score around 65%. Higher is better. | 59.4% | — |
| Timeline | ||
| Release gap | Claude 3.5 Sonnet shipped 277 days before DeepSeek V3-0324 | |
Claude 3.5 Sonnet and DeepSeek V3-0324 don't publish scores on any of the same benchmarks, so there's no direct head-to-head comparison. Claude 3.5 Sonnet shipped 277 days before DeepSeek V3-0324, so benchmark comparisons should account for the intervening progress.
DeepSeek V3-0324 is an open-source / open-weight model; Claude 3.5 Sonnet is proprietary.
Direct benchmark comparisons are unavailable — Claude 3.5 Sonnet and DeepSeek V3-0324 don't publish scores on any of the same benchmarks.