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Comparison2 AI assistants

Claude or DeepSeek

Claude is ahead of DeepSeek on Celsius score: 74 against 35 out of 100. Claude is ahead on performance and ethics, with a gap of less than 3 points on environment.

ClaudeAnthropic ↗74-35Celsius score out of 100DeepSeekDeepSeek ↗
First assistant
ClaudeGeminiChatGPTCopilotMeta AIVibeQwenPerplexityDeepSeekGrok
Second assistant
ClaudeGeminiChatGPTCopilotMeta AIVibeQwenPerplexityDeepSeekGrok

Gaps by category

  1. Performance98430out of 100100

    Claude is ahead of DeepSeek on performance: 98 against 43 out of 100.

  2. Ethics77180out of 100100

    Claude is ahead of DeepSeek on ethics: 77 against 18 out of 100. Largest gap: "Safety", Claude 83 against 8.

  3. Environment47450out of 100100

    Environment score: Claude 47, DeepSeek 45 out of 100, a gap of 2 points; the method does not treat a gap of less than 3 points as significant. Largest gap: "Low-carbon electricity", Claude 33 against 17.

  4. Use9.6 %3.4 %0% of AI sites' web traffic60

    Claude has 2.8 times more web traffic than DeepSeek: 9.6% against 3.4% of visits to AI sites. Among developers (OpenRouter): 5.7% for Claude, 29.8% for DeepSeek.

  5. Price20 $3.96 $0$ per million output tokens, API50

    DeepSeek's API costs 5.1 times less for output: $3.96 against $20 per million tokens. Subscriptions: €21.60 (Claude) and free (DeepSeek).

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