DeepSeek R1 0528 vs Grok 3
Compare DeepSeek R1 0528 by DeepSeek against Grok 3 by xAI, in 6 community votes, deepseek r1 0528 wins 100% of head-to-head duels, context windows of 164K vs 128K, tested across 52 shared challenges. Updated May 2026.
Which is better, DeepSeek R1 0528 or Grok 3?
DeepSeek R1 0528 is the better choice overall, winning 100% of 6 blind community votes on Rival. Context windows: 164K vs 128K tokens. Compare their real outputs side by side below.
Key Differences Between DeepSeek R1 0528 and Grok 3
DeepSeek R1 0528 is made by deepseek while Grok 3 is from xai. DeepSeek R1 0528 has a 164K token context window compared to Grok 3's 128K. In community voting, In 6 community votes, DeepSeek R1 0528 wins 100% of head-to-head duels.
In 6 community votes, DeepSeek R1 0528 wins 100% of head-to-head duels. DeepSeek R1 0528 leads in Image Generation. Based on blind community voting from the Rival open dataset of 6+ human preference judgments for this pair.
Per 1M tokens
Pick DeepSeek R1 0528. In 6 blind votes, DeepSeek R1 0528 wins 100% of the time. That's not luck.
DeepSeek R1 0528 particularly excels in Image Generation.
Style Comparison
Grok 3 uses 3.9x more emoji
