DeepSeek DeepSeek Coder vs OpenAI o4-mini — side-by-side specs.
DeepSeek DeepSeek Coder | OpenAI o4-mini | |
|---|---|---|
| Overview | ||
| Company | DeepSeek | OpenAI |
| Release date | Nov 2 2023 | Apr 16 2025 |
| Model type | — | — |
| Open source | Yes | No |
| Specifications | ||
Parameters | — | — |
Context window | — | — |
| Benchmarks | ||
Science reasoning GPQA Diamond | — | — |
Software engineering SWE-Bench Verified | — | — |
Multimodal understanding MMMU | — | — |
| Timeline | ||
| Release gap | DeepSeek Coder shipped 531 days before o4-mini | |
DeepSeek Coder and o4-mini do not have directly comparable benchmark scores published on GPQA Diamond, SWE-Bench Verified, or MMMU. DeepSeek Coder shipped 531 days before o4-mini, so benchmark comparisons should account for the intervening progress.
DeepSeek Coder is an open-source / open-weight model; o4-mini 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.