Claude 3.5 Sonnet vs DeepSeek V3-0324
Anthropic Claude 3.5 Sonnet | DeepSeek DeepSeek V3-0324 | |
|---|---|---|
| Overview | ||
| Company | Anthropic | DeepSeek |
| Release date | Jun 20 2024 | Mar 24 2025 |
| Access | Proprietary | Open Weight |
| Benchmarks | ||
Nonsense detection BullshitBench v2Given a confidently-worded but nonsensical prompt, does the AI spot that it makes no sense and push back — instead of playing along and inventing an answer? The score is how often it clearly called out the nonsense. Higher is better. | 45% | — |
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 | |
Which is better: Claude 3.5 Sonnet or 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.
Claude 3.5 Sonnet is proprietary, while DeepSeek V3-0324 is open weight.
Direct benchmark comparisons are unavailable — Claude 3.5 Sonnet and DeepSeek V3-0324 don't publish scores on any of the same benchmarks.
Frequently asked questions
Claude 3.5 Sonnet was released by Anthropic on Jun 20 2024.
DeepSeek V3-0324 was released by DeepSeek on Mar 24 2025.
Claude 3.5 Sonnet is a proprietary model released by Anthropic. DeepSeek V3-0324 is an open weight model released by DeepSeek.
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