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Claude Opus 4.6vsDeepSeek V3
Claude Opus 4.6 leads 4 of 4 shared benchmarks. Claude Opus 4.6 has the larger context window (1M tokens).
Benchmarks from cited public sources; pricing from official pages; status from official provider feeds.
Shared benchmarks
4 – 0
Claude Opus 4.6 leads
Cheaper per token
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list price, input + output
Larger context
Claude Opus 4.6
1M tokens
Provider uptime (30d)
100% · 100%
Anthropic · DeepSeek
Claude Opus 4.6
Anthropic · released 2026-02-05
textvision
DeepSeek V3
DeepSeek · released 2024-12-26
text
- Context
- 128K
- Max out
- 8K
- Input /1M
- —
- Output /1M
- —
- Cached /1M
- —
- Scores
- 8 · 7 core
Quality
Benchmark matrix
4 shared · 14 only Claude Opus 4.6 · 3 only DeepSeek V3| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.6 | DeepSeek V3 | Δ | Edge |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reported by both · 4 | ||||
| SWE-bench Verified | 80.8% ↗ | 42% ↗ | +38.8 pt | Claude Opus 4.6 |
| GPQA Diamond | 91.3% ↗ | 59.1% ↗ | +32.2 pt | Claude Opus 4.6 |
| LMArena Elo | 1497.5 ↗ | 1332.4 ↗ | +165.1 | Claude Opus 4.6 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 (Epoch AI run) | 94.4% ↗epoch | 15.8% ↗epoch | +78.6 pt | Claude Opus 4.6 |
| Only Claude Opus 4.6 reports · 14 | ||||
| AIME 2026 | 96.7% ↗matharena | not reported | — | — |
| ARC-AGI-2 (Verified) | 68.8% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 v2 (Epoch AI run) | 26.8% ↗epoch | not reported | — | — |
| FrontierMath Tiers 1-3 v2 (Epoch AI run) | 66% ↗epoch | not reported | — | — |
| MCP Atlas | 59.5% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| MMMLU | 91.1% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| MMMU-Pro (no tools) | 73.9% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| MMMU-Pro (with tools) | 77.3% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| OSWorld-Verified | 72.7% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| SimpleQA Verified | 47% ↗epoch | not reported | — | — |
| SWE-bench Verified (Epoch AI run) | 78.7% ↗epoch | not reported | — | — |
| Tau2-bench Retail | 91.9% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| Tau2-bench Telecom | 99.3% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | 65.4% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| Only DeepSeek V3 reports · 3 | ||||
| MMLU | not reported | 88.5% ↗ | — | — |
| MMLU-Pro | not reported | 75.9% ↗ | — | — |
| AIME 2025 | not reported | 25% ↗matharena | — | — |
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 Claude Opus 4.6 minus DeepSeek V3 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
Official pricing pages and model cards| Spec | Claude Opus 4.6 | DeepSeek V3 | Edge |
|---|---|---|---|
| Context window | 1M tokens | 128K tokens | Claude Opus 4.6 |
| Max output | 128K tokens | 8K tokens | Claude Opus 4.6 |
| Input price / 1M | $5 ↗ | — | — |
| Output price / 1M | $25 ↗ | — | — |
| Cached input / 1M | $0.5 ↗ | — | — |
| Input + output / 1M Lower is cheaper. List prices; batch, tool and regional fees excluded. | $30 | — | — |
| Modalities | text · vision | text | Claude Opus 4.6 |
| Released | 2026-02-05 | 2024-12-26 | — |
| Cited benchmark scores | 19 | 8 | — |
Reliability
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