Anthropic Claude Instant 1.2 vs DeepSeek DeepSeek V3 Base — side-by-side specs.
Anthropic Claude Instant 1.2 | DeepSeek DeepSeek V3 Base | |
|---|---|---|
| Overview | ||
| Company | Anthropic | DeepSeek |
| Release date | Aug 9 2023 | Dec 2024 |
| Model type | — | — |
| Open source | No | Yes |
| Specifications | ||
Parameters | — | — |
Context window | — | — |
| Benchmarks | ||
Science reasoning GPQA Diamond | — | — |
Software engineering SWE-Bench Verified | — | — |
Multimodal understanding MMMU | — | — |
| Timeline | ||
| Release gap | Claude Instant 1.2 shipped 480 days before DeepSeek V3 Base | |
Claude Instant 1.2 and DeepSeek V3 Base do not have directly comparable benchmark scores published on GPQA Diamond, SWE-Bench Verified, or MMMU. Claude Instant 1.2 shipped 480 days before DeepSeek V3 Base, so benchmark comparisons should account for the intervening progress.
DeepSeek V3 Base is an open-source / open-weight model; Claude Instant 1.2 is proprietary.
Direct benchmark comparisons are unavailable — at least one of these models has not published scores on GPQA Diamond, SWE-Bench Verified, or MMMU.