DeepSeek V3 0324 vs. Claude 3.5 Sonnet (Oct '24)
Comparison between DeepSeek V3 0324 and Claude 3.5 Sonnet (Oct '24) across intelligence, price, speed, context window and more.
For details relating to our methodology, see our Methodology page.
| Intelligence | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Intelligence Index | 10 | 8* | |
| AA-Briefcase v1.1 | 68 | ||
| GDPval-AA v2.1 | 69 | ||
| AutomationBench-AA | 0% | ||
| Terminal-Bench 4.0 | 0% | ||
| SciCode | 39% | ||
| Humanity's Last Exam | 5% | 4% | |
| GDP.pdf | 2% | ||
| CritPt | 0% | ||
| AA-Omniscience | −41 | ||
| AA-LCR v1.1 | 41% | ||
| Cost | |||
| Price per 1M Tokens | $0.2325 | $2.31 | |
| Input Price per 1M Tokens | $0.24 | $3.00 | |
| Output Price per 1M Tokens | $0.90 | $15.00 | |
| Cache Hit Price per 1M Tokens | $0.135 | $0.30 | |
| Cost per Task | $0.02 | ||
| Cost to Run Intelligence Index | $20 | ||
| Token Use | |||
| Output Tokens per Task | 2k | ||
| Reasoning Tokens per Task | 0 | ||
| Output Tokens to Run Intelligence Index | 4M | ||
| Performance | |||
| Output Speed | 82 tokens/s | ||
| Time to First Token | 0.71s | ||
| Time to First Answer Token | 0.71s | ||
| End-to-End Response Time | 6.80s | ||
| Time per Task | 24.41s | ||
| Technical specifications | |||
| Context Window | 128k tokens~192 A4 pages of size 12 Arial font | 200k tokens~300 A4 pages of size 12 Arial font | |
| Release Date | March 2025 | October 2024 | |
| Knowledge Cutoff | April 2024 | ||
| Total parameters | 671B | ||
| Active parameters | 37B | ||
| Reasoning | No | No | |
| Input modality | Supports: text | Supports: text and image | |
| Output modality | Supports: text | Supports: text | |
| Open Source (Weights) | No | ||
| License | |||
| License Supports Commercial Use Without Restrictions | Yes | ||
* Estimated
Intelligence
Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index
Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index by Open Weights / Proprietary
Intelligence Index vs. Cost per Intelligence Index Task
Cost per Task (USD, Log Scale)
Measures the performance of models on specific capabilities and industries
Artificial Analysis Finance & Accounting Index
Intelligence Evaluations
Agentic knowledge work, (Elo-500)/2000
Agentic real-world work tasks, (Elo-500)/2000
Agentic SaaS workflows
Agentic coding & terminal use
Coding
Reasoning & knowledge
Professional document reasoning, All-pass
Physics reasoning
Knowledge
1 - hallucination rate
Long context reasoning
Legal agentic work, Hallucination-Gated All-Pass Rate
Agentic business operations
Agentic scientific research workflows in a terminal
Agentic software engineering in open-source repositories
Quantitative analysis on spreadsheets & documents
Kubernetes incident root-cause analysis
Visual reasoning
Medical long context reasoning
AA-Briefcase v1.1Updated
AA-Briefcase Elo
AA-Omniscience
AA-Omniscience Index
Openness Index
Artificial Analysis Openness Index: Score
Intelligence Index Comparisons
Intelligence Index vs. Cost per Intelligence Index Task
Cost per Task (USD, Log Scale)
Token Use
Output Tokens per Intelligence Index Task
Cost
Cost per Intelligence Index Task
Cost to Run Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index
Pricing: Cache Hit, Input, and Output
Context Window
Context Window
Speed
Measured by Output Speed (tokens per second)
Output Speed
Time per Intelligence Index Task
Latency
Measured by Time (seconds) to First Token
Latency: Time To First Answer Token
End-to-End Response Time
Seconds to output 500 tokens, calculated based on time to first token, 'thinking' time for reasoning models, and output speed
End-to-End Response Time
Model Size (Open Weights Models Only)
Model Size: Total and Active Parameters
Frequently Asked Questions
DeepSeek V3 0324 is more intelligent. DeepSeek V3 0324 scores 10, compared with Claude 3.5 Sonnet (Oct '24) at 8 (estimated) on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index.
DeepSeek V3 0324 is cheaper. DeepSeek V3 0324 costs $0.23 per 1M tokens, compared with Claude 3.5 Sonnet (Oct '24) at $2.31 per 1M tokens (7:2:1 cache hit/input/output ratio).
Claude 3.5 Sonnet (Oct '24) has a larger context window. Claude 3.5 Sonnet (Oct '24) supports 200k tokens, compared with DeepSeek V3 0324 at 130k tokens.