DeepSeek DeepSeek-MoE vs OpenAI o3-pro — side-by-side specs.
DeepSeek DeepSeek-MoE | OpenAI o3-pro | |
|---|---|---|
| Overview | ||
| Company | DeepSeek | OpenAI |
| Release date | Jan 9 2024 | Jun 10 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-MoE shipped 518 days before o3-pro | |
DeepSeek-MoE and o3-pro do not have directly comparable benchmark scores published on GPQA Diamond, SWE-Bench Verified, or MMMU. DeepSeek-MoE shipped 518 days before o3-pro, so benchmark comparisons should account for the intervening progress.
DeepSeek-MoE is an open-source / open-weight model; o3-pro 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.