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DeepSeek V3vsGPT-5

GPT-5 leads 8 of 8 shared benchmarks. GPT-5 has the larger context window (400K tokens).

Benchmarks from cited public sources; pricing from official pages; status from official provider feeds.

Shared benchmarks
0 – 8
GPT-5 leads
Cheaper per token
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list price, input + output
Larger context
GPT-5
400K tokens
Providers
2 providers
DeepSeek · OpenAI
DeepSeek V3
DeepSeek · released 2024-12-26
text
Context
128K
Max out
8K
Input /1M
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Output /1M
—
Cached /1M
—
Scores
14 · 7 core
GPT-5
OpenAI · released 2025-08-07
textvision
Context
400K
Max out
128K
Input /1M
$1.25 ↗
Output /1M
$10 ↗
Cached /1M
$0.125
Scores
27 · 11 core
Quality

Benchmark matrix

BenchmarkDeepSeek V3GPT-5ΔEdge
Reported by both · 8
SWE-bench Verified42% ↗74.9% ↗-32.9 ptGPT-5
GPQA Diamond59.1% ↗86.2% ↗epoch run-27.1 ptGPT-5
AIME 202525% ↗matharena94.6% ↗-69.6 ptGPT-5
LMArena Elo1332.4 ↗1434.5 ↗-102.1GPT-5
MATH Level 5 (Epoch AI run)75.5% ↗epoch run98.1% ↗epoch run-22.6 ptGPT-5
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 (Epoch AI run)15.8% ↗epoch run91.4% ↗epoch run-75.6 ptGPT-5
SimpleBench (SimpleBench)18.9% ↗56.7% ↗-37.8 ptGPT-5
WeirdML (Håvard Tveit Ihle)36.1% ↗60.7% ↗-24.6 ptGPT-5
Only DeepSeek V3 reports · 2
MMLU88.5% ↗not reported——
MMLU-Pro75.9% ↗not reported——
Only GPT-5 reports · 12
BALROG (BALROG)not reported32.8% ↗——
Chess Puzzles (Epoch AI run)not reported37% ↗epoch run——
EBR-bench (Epoch AI run)not reported12.7% ↗epoch run——
FrontierMath Tier 4 v2 (Epoch AI run)not reported22% ↗epoch run——
FrontierMath Tiers 1-3 v2 (Epoch AI run)not reported55.4% ↗epoch run——
GSO Opt@1 (GSO)not reported5.9% ↗——
LMArena Vision (LMArena)not reported1210.2 ↗——
LMArena WebDev (LMArena)not reported1417.1 ↗——
Mystery Game Puzzles (Epoch AI run)not reported23% ↗epoch run——
SAGE (Vals AI)not reported43.7% ↗——
SimpleQA Verifiednot reported50.1% ↗epoch run——
SWE-bench Verified (Epoch AI run)not reported73.6% ↗epoch run——
Scores tagged "epoch" or "matharena" are independent runs, used only where the lab has not published its own; ⚠ marks rows MathArena flags as released after the competition. Higher is better on every row. Δ is DeepSeek V3 minus GPT-5 in the benchmark's own unit. "Not reported" means the lab has not published that figure; it is not a zero. ↗ opens the source.
Specs & pricing

Side by side

SpecDeepSeek V3GPT-5Edge
Context window128K tokens400K tokensGPT-5
Max output8K tokens128K tokensGPT-5
Input price / 1M—$1.25 ↗—
Output price / 1M—$10 ↗—
Cached input / 1M—$0.125 ↗—
Input + output / 1M
Lower is cheaper. List prices; batch, tool and regional fees excluded.
—$11.25—
Modalitiestexttext · visionGPT-5
Released2024-12-262025-08-07—
Cited benchmark scores1427—
Reliability

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