DeepSeek DeepSeek-Math vs OpenAI o3 — side-by-side specs.
DeepSeek DeepSeek-Math | OpenAI o3 | |
|---|---|---|
| Overview | ||
| Company | DeepSeek | OpenAI |
| Release date | Apr 3 2024 | 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-Math shipped 378 days before o3 | |
DeepSeek-Math and o3 do not have directly comparable benchmark scores published on GPQA Diamond, SWE-Bench Verified, or MMMU. DeepSeek-Math shipped 378 days before o3, so benchmark comparisons should account for the intervening progress.
DeepSeek-Math is an open-source / open-weight model; o3 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.