Claude Opus 4.8 vs DeepSeek V3 0324
Updated October 21, 2026. 22 benchmarks have a result for both. Coding is ranked on the Vibe Coding Index; every other board is shown as published.
vs boards won of 22 shared
Decision reading
Pick Claude Opus 4.8 for coding: it scores 66.0 on the Vibe Coding Index against 42.0 for DeepSeek V3 0324.
Pick DeepSeek V3 0324 when output tokens cost 21.9x less.
Model AClaude Opus 4.8Anthropic66.0/1002 independent benchmarks$2.17 per solved taskModel BDeepSeek V3 0324DeepSeek42.0/1001 independent benchmarkNo cost per solved task
- Shared results
- 22
- Claude Opus 4.8 only
- 104
- DeepSeek V3 0324 only
- 13
- Like-for-like categories
- 7 of 9
Shared results can support a head-to-head reading. Results only one model has describe coverage, not superiority.
Which one for your work
Each card is decided by one number both models carry. Where only one has it, the card says so and makes no call.
Coding
Vibe Coding Index, four public coding benchmarks
Claude Opus 4.8
Claude Opus 4.8 scores 66.0 against 42.0.
2 and 1 benchmarks behind the scores
Intelligence
AA Intelligence Index
Claude Opus 4.8
Claude Opus 4.8 leads, 41.8 against 9.7.
Same board, both measured
Agentic work
AA Agentic Index
Claude Opus 4.8
Claude Opus 4.8 leads, 41.9 against 0.8.
Same board, both measured
Reasoning
GPQA Diamond
Claude Opus 4.8
Claude Opus 4.8 leads, 92.4% against 61.6%.
Same board, both measured
Math
AIME
No call
Only DeepSeek V3 0324 has a AIME result, 52.2%.
Directional only
Knowledge
MMLU Pro
Claude Opus 4.8
Claude Opus 4.8 leads, 89.6% against 79.5%.
Same board, both measured
Web design
Design Arena: websites
No call
Only Claude Opus 4.8 has a Design Arena: websites result, 1258.
Directional only
Long documents
Listed context window
Claude Opus 4.8
Claude Opus 4.8 takes 1M tokens against 164K.
Listed by OpenRouter
Everyday cost
1K input + 500 output tokens
DeepSeek V3 0324
Claude Opus 4.8 $0.018, DeepSeek V3 0324 $0.0009 per turn.
List prices
Cost per solved task
One SWE-bench Verified task, solved
No call
Only Claude Opus 4.8 has the number, $2.17.
Directional only
At a glance
- Coding index
- Claude Opus 4.8 66.0 from 2 benchmarks, DeepSeek V3 0324 42.0 from 1 benchmark.
- Widest category
- Math, 60.6 points apart on average over 1 shared benchmark.
- Widest single gap
- OTIS Mock AIME: Claude Opus 4.8 98.3% against DeepSeek V3 0324 37.8%, 60.6 points apart on a 0 to 100 scale.
- Output price
- Claude Opus 4.8 $25.00 against DeepSeek V3 0324 $1.14 per million output tokens, 21.9x apart.
- Context window
- Claude Opus 4.8 takes 1M tokens, DeepSeek V3 0324 164K.
Benchmark by benchmark
First the score: boards each model leads, per category, where both have a result. Then every board, a category to a fold; bars are each result on a 0 to 100 scale, so compare the two in a row, not one row with another.
| Category | Claude Opus 4.8 | Bars | DeepSeek V3 0324 | Ties |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coding | 5 | 0 | ||
| Intelligence | 1 | 0 | ||
| Agentic work | 2 | 0 | ||
| Reasoning | 5 | 0 | ||
| Math | 1 | 0 | ||
| Knowledge | 4 | 0 | ||
| General | 4 | 0 | ||
| All shared boards | 22 | 0 |
CodingLike-for-likeFour of these boards feed the Vibe Coding Index50
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.8 | DeepSeek V3 0324 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| SWE-bench Verified | Not measured | 42.0% | Only DeepSeek V3 0324 measured |
| LiveBench coding | 77.3% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| LMArena WebDev | 1556 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| AA Coding Index | 74.3 | 21.2 | Claude Opus 4.8 |
| LiveCodeBench (Vals AI) | 87.8% | 65.5% | Claude Opus 4.8 |
| SWE-bench Verified (Vals AI) | 88.6% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| Terminal-Bench 4 (Vals AI) | 23.2% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| Vibe Code Bench (Vals AI) | 82.7% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| Code migration (Vals AI) | 47.3% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| ProgramBench (Vals AI) | 1.0% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals AI) | 71.9% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| SkillsBench (Vals AI) | 59.2% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| LiveCodeBench (Artificial Analysis run) | Not measured | 40.5% | Only DeepSeek V3 0324 measured |
| SciCode | 54.4% | 39.0% | Claude Opus 4.8 |
| Terminal-Bench Hard (Artificial Analysis run) | 58.3% | 15.2% | Claude Opus 4.8 |
| FrontierCode | 46.5% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| GSO-Bench | 47.1% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| WeirdML | 82.9% | 36.1% | Claude Opus 4.8 |
| LMArena Text: coding | 1490 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| LMArena Text: software and IT | 1488 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| LMArena WebDev: React | 1557 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| LMArena WebDev: HTML | 1543 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 16 boards here | |||
IntelligenceLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index10
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.8 | DeepSeek V3 0324 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA Intelligence Index | 41.8 | 9.7 | Claude Opus 4.8 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 159.0 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
Agentic workLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index20
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.8 | DeepSeek V3 0324 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA Agentic Index | 41.9 | 0.8 | Claude Opus 4.8 |
| Design Arena: agents building web apps | 1233 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| Design Arena: agents building full-stack apps | 1249 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| Design Arena: agents building mobile apps | 1222 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| Design Arena: agents building Android apps | 1237 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| Design Arena: agents building Godot games | 1231 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| Design Arena: agents building games | 1238 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| Design Arena: HTML slides | 1221 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| Design Arena: PowerPoint slides | 1227 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| LiveBench research | 81.8% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| LiveBench browser | 96.0% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| LiveBench long agentic | 48.3% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| Finance Agent (Vals AI) | 53.9% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| Tax Agent Bench (Vals AI) | 30.0% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| Legal Research Bench (Vals AI) | 43.8% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| Excel Modeling Benchmark (Vals AI) | 69.4% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| Terminal-Bench-Science (Vals AI) | 4.3% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| Time Horizon Index (Vals AI) | 11.8% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| τ²-Bench Telecom | 94.4% | 47.1% | Claude Opus 4.8 |
| APEX-Agents | 48.9% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| METR time horizons | Not measured | 49.6% | Only DeepSeek V3 0324 measured |
| Remote Labor Index | 8.3% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| OSWorld 2.0 | 20.6% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| DeepResearch Bench | 50.2% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| PostTrainBench | 33.8% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| Vending-Bench 2 | $5,787 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| LMArena Search | 1204 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 12 boards here | |||
ReasoningLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index50
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.8 | DeepSeek V3 0324 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 92.4% | 61.6% | Claude Opus 4.8 |
| LiveBench reasoning | 89.2% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| MMMU Pro (Vals AI) | 86.6% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| GPQA Diamond (Artificial Analysis run) | 92.0% | 65.5% | Claude Opus 4.8 |
| Humanity's Last Exam (Artificial Analysis run) | 48.7% | 4.7% | Claude Opus 4.8 |
| GPQA Diamond (Epoch AI run) | 91.0% | 67.6% | Claude Opus 4.8 |
| ARC-AGI | 92.5% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 72.1% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| SimpleBench | 64.8% | 27.2% | Claude Opus 4.8 |
| Chess puzzles | 52.0% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| Mystery game puzzles | 36.0% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| EBR-bench | 28.6% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| LMArena Text: hard prompts | 1482 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| LMArena Text: expert | 1503 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| LMArena Text: hard prompts in English | 1487 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| LMArena Vision: diagrams | 1315 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| LMArena Vision: homework | 1337 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 4 boards here | |||
MathLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index10
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.8 | DeepSeek V3 0324 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AIME | Not measured | 52.2% | Only DeepSeek V3 0324 measured |
| MATH 500 (Vals AI) | Not measured | 88.6% | Only DeepSeek V3 0324 measured |
| MGSM (Vals AI) | Not measured | 91.7% | Only DeepSeek V3 0324 measured |
| AA Math Index | Not measured | 41.0 | Only DeepSeek V3 0324 measured |
| AIME 2025 (Artificial Analysis run) | Not measured | 41.0% | Only DeepSeek V3 0324 measured |
| OTIS Mock AIME | 98.3% | 37.8% | Claude Opus 4.8 |
| FrontierMath, tiers 1 to 3 | 80.0% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| FrontierMath, tier 4 | 56.1% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| ProofBench | 69.0% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| MATH level 5 | Not measured | 75.5% | Only DeepSeek V3 0324 measured |
| LMArena Text: math | 1486 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| LMArena Text: mathematical work | 1497 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 1 board here | |||
KnowledgeLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index40
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.8 | DeepSeek V3 0324 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| MMLU Pro | 89.6% | 79.5% | Claude Opus 4.8 |
| LegalBench (Vals AI) | 83.6% | 77.7% | Claude Opus 4.8 |
| CorpFin (Vals AI) | 66.7% | 54.7% | Claude Opus 4.8 |
| TaxEval (Vals AI) | 75.6% | 71.1% | Claude Opus 4.8 |
| MortgageTax (Vals AI) | 69.9% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| MedQA (Vals AI) | Not measured | 82.0% | Only DeepSeek V3 0324 measured |
| MedCode (Vals AI) | 53.2% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| MMLU Pro (Artificial Analysis run) | Not measured | 81.9% | Only DeepSeek V3 0324 measured |
| SimpleQA Verified | 53.0% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| LMArena Text: science | 1477 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| LMArena Text: medicine and healthcare | 1464 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| LMArena Text: legal and government | 1477 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| LMArena Text: business and finance | 1458 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 4 boards here | |||
Web designDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index9 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.8 | DeepSeek V3 0324 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Design Arena: websites | 1258 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| Design Arena: UI components | 1256 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| Design Arena: game dev | 1264 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| Design Arena: data viz | 1240 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| Design Arena: 3D | 1223 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| Design Arena: all code categories | 1255 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| Design Arena: SVG | 1194 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| Design Arena: ASCII art | 1276 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| LiveBench design | 78.8% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
GeneralLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index40
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.8 | DeepSeek V3 0324 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| LiveBench data analysis | 66.0% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| Public Benefits Bench (Vals AI) | 68.1% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| SAGE (Vals AI) | 54.8% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| MedScribe (Vals AI) | 85.8% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| Vals Multimodal Index | 70.9% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| IFBench | 62.2% | 41.0% | Claude Opus 4.8 |
| Long context reasoning (AA-LCR) | 77.7% | 40.7% | Claude Opus 4.8 |
| DTBench | 94.9% | 64.8% | Claude Opus 4.8 |
| LMCA | 57.5% | 15.5% | Claude Opus 4.8 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | Not measured | 50.0% | Only DeepSeek V3 0324 measured |
| Creative writing (Lech Mazur) | Not measured | 77.0% | Only DeepSeek V3 0324 measured |
| Surface Evolver Bench | 87.5% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| Furniture assembly | 42.5% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| LMArena Text | 1461 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| LMArena Text: instruction following | 1476 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| LMArena Text: creative writing | 1454 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| LMArena Vision | 1294 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| LMArena Text: English | 1468 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| LMArena Text: non-English | 1450 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| LMArena Text: Chinese | 1506 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| LMArena Text: German | 1472 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| LMArena Text: Japanese | 1442 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| LMArena Text: Korean | 1431 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| LMArena Text: French | 1481 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| LMArena Text: Spanish | 1465 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| LMArena Text: Russian | 1474 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| LMArena Text: Polish | 1459 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| LMArena Text: multi-turn | 1476 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| LMArena Text: longer queries | 1483 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| LMArena Text: writing and language | 1461 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| LMArena Text: entertainment and media | 1440 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| LMArena Vision: English | 1293 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| LMArena Vision: Chinese | 1346 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| LMArena Vision: reading text | 1303 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| LMArena Vision: humor | 1282 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| LMArena Vision: creative writing | 1301 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| LMArena Document | 1475 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 9 boards here | |||
Image generationNot comparablePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index0 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.8 | DeepSeek V3 0324 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Neither model has a result on 5 boards here | |||
What each workload costs
Three fixed token mixes at each model's listed price, so per-token rates become a bill.
Chat turn
1K input + 500 output tokens
Claude Opus 4.8$0.018Fits in one request
DeepSeek V3 0324$0.0009Fits in one request
DeepSeek V3 0324 costs less
Repository review
50K input + 3K output tokens
Claude Opus 4.8$0.325Fits in one request
DeepSeek V3 0324$0.018Fits in one request
DeepSeek V3 0324 costs less
Agent loop
200K input + 10K output tokens
Claude Opus 4.8$1.25Fits in one request
DeepSeek V3 0324$0.069Exceeds the context window
DeepSeek V3 0324 costs less
Listed OpenRouter rates, without cache or batch discounts. A workload that does not fit a model's context window would need splitting.
Specification differences
The leading value in a row is marked; a row with a missing value names no leader. Our two rows are marked in red.
| Specification | Anthropic Claude Opus 4.8 | DeepSeek V3 0324 |
|---|---|---|
| Maker | Anthropic | DeepSeek |
| Weights | No public weights listed | Open weights |
| Released | May 27, 2026 | March 24, 2025 |
| Context window | 1M | 164K |
| Input $/Mtok | $5.00 | $0.29 |
| Output $/Mtok | $25.00 | $1.14 |
| Coding index | 66.0 | 42.0 |
| Independent measurements behind it | 2 | 1 |
| Cost per solved task | $2.17 | Not computable |
| Source | OpenRouter listing | OpenRouter listing |
Questions
Is Claude Opus 4.8 better than DeepSeek V3 0324 for coding?
Pick Claude Opus 4.8 for coding: it scores 66.0 on the Vibe Coding Index against 42.0 for DeepSeek V3 0324. Pick DeepSeek V3 0324 when output tokens cost 21.9x less.
Which is cheaper, Claude Opus 4.8 or DeepSeek V3 0324?
Claude Opus 4.8 costs $5.00 per million input tokens and $25.00 per million output tokens; DeepSeek V3 0324 costs $0.29 and $1.14. Cost per solved task is known for Claude Opus 4.8 only.
Which has the bigger context window, Claude Opus 4.8 or DeepSeek V3 0324?
Claude Opus 4.8, with 1M tokens against 164K.
How many benchmarks is the Claude Opus 4.8 vs DeepSeek V3 0324 comparison based on?
22 benchmarks have a result for both models as of October 21, 2026. Claude Opus 4.8's coding index rests on 2 independent benchmarks and DeepSeek V3 0324's on 1. Where only one model has a result, the page says so instead of naming a winner.