DeepSeek V3 Base and GPT-5.6 Luna don't publish scores on any of the same benchmarks, so there's no direct head-to-head comparison. DeepSeek V3 Base shipped 572 days before GPT-5.6 Luna, so benchmark comparisons should account for the intervening progress.

DeepSeek V3 Base is open weight, while GPT-5.6 Luna is proprietary.

Direct benchmark comparisons are unavailable — DeepSeek V3 Base and GPT-5.6 Luna don't publish scores on any of the same benchmarks.