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DeepSeek-V3 (Mar 2025) vs o1-mini

DeepSeek-V3 (Mar 2025) OPEN WEIGHTS · DeepSeek, released 2025-03-24
o1-mini · OpenAI, released 2024-09-12

“Epoch AI, 'AI Benchmarking Hub'. Published online at epoch.ai. Retrieved from 'https://epoch.ai/benchmarks' [online resource].” · epoch.ai/benchmarks · Licensed CC BY 4.0 · data last verified 2026-07-26 · Methodology · Data Sources

Head-to-head

Measured on 4 of 9 tracked benchmarks for both models — DeepSeek-V3 (Mar 2025) leads on 2, o1-mini leads on 2.

Benchmark	DeepSeek-V3 (Mar 2025)	o1-mini	Leads
Epoch Capabilities Index (ECI)	137.1	136.6	DeepSeek-V3 (Mar 2025)
SWE-bench Verified	Not measured	Not measured	Not measured on both
GPQA Diamond	0.676	0.624 (high)	DeepSeek-V3 (Mar 2025)
MATH Level 5	0.755	0.892 (high)	o1-mini
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025	0.378	0.469 (high)	o1-mini
FrontierMath	Not measured	0.017 (medium)	Not measured on both
FrontierMath Tier 4	Not measured	Not measured	Not measured on both
SimpleQA Verified	Not measured	Not measured	Not measured on both
Chess Puzzles	Not measured	Not measured	Not measured on both

Benchmark results measure specific tasks and should not be treated as a universal measure of model quality. A model with no row here for a benchmark has not been measured on it — that is left blank, never estimated.

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