DeepSeek DeepSeek-LLM vs OpenAI GPT-5 — side-by-side specs.
DeepSeek DeepSeek-LLM | OpenAI GPT-5 | |
|---|---|---|
| Overview | ||
| Company | DeepSeek | OpenAI |
| Release date | Nov 29 2023 | Aug 7 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-LLM shipped 617 days before GPT-5 | |
DeepSeek-LLM and GPT-5 do not have directly comparable benchmark scores published on GPQA Diamond, SWE-Bench Verified, or MMMU. DeepSeek-LLM shipped 617 days before GPT-5, so benchmark comparisons should account for the intervening progress.
DeepSeek-LLM is an open-source / open-weight model; GPT-5 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.