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Claude Opus 5.5vsDeepSeek V3.1-Terminus

Claude Opus 5.5 leads 1 of 1 shared benchmark. Claude Opus 5.5 has the larger context window (1M tokens).

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Shared benchmarks
1 – 0
Claude Opus 5.5 leads
Cheaper per token
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list price, input + output
Larger context
Claude Opus 5.5
1M tokens
Providers
2 providers
Anthropic · DeepSeek
Claude Opus 5.5
Anthropic · released 2026-09-22
textvision
Context
1M
Max out
128K
Input /1M
$4 ↗
Output /1M
$20 ↗
Cached /1M
$0.2
Scores
34 · 9 core
DeepSeek V3.1-Terminus
DeepSeek · released 2025-09-22
text
Context
128K
Max out
—
Input /1M
—
Output /1M
—
Cached /1M
—
Scores
12 · 5 core
Quality

Benchmark matrix

BenchmarkClaude Opus 5.5DeepSeek V3.1-TerminusΔEdge
Reported by both · 1
LMArena Elo1503.7 ↗1417.2 ↗+86.5Claude Opus 5.5
Only Claude Opus 5.5 reports · 33
GPQA Diamond90.6% ↗epoch runnot reported——
APEX-Agents (Mercor)73.5% ↗not reported——
AutomationBench 1.0.640% ↗not reported——
Chartography (with tools)89% ↗not reported——
CursorBench 4.057.8% ↗not reported——
EBR-bench (Epoch AI run)71.4% ↗epoch runnot reported——
FrontierCode v1.1 (Main)54.4% ↗not reported——
FrontierMath Tier 4 v2 (Epoch AI run)95% ↗epoch runnot reported——
FrontierMath Tiers 1-3 v2 (Epoch AI run)91.2% ↗epoch runnot reported——
FrontierSWE V2 (Proximal Labs)62.3% ↗not reported——
Furniture Assembly (Epoch AI run)83.3% ↗epoch runnot reported——
GDPval-AA v2.11846 ↗not reported——
Humanity's Last Exam (with tools)67.7% ↗not reported——
LiveBench Agentic Coding (LiveBench)71.7% ↗not reported——
LiveBench Coding (LiveBench)89.3% ↗not reported——
LiveBench Data Analysis (LiveBench)80.3% ↗not reported——
LiveBench Instruction Following (LiveBench)67% ↗not reported——
LiveBench Language (LiveBench)86.3% ↗not reported——
LiveBench Mathematics (LiveBench)97.1% ↗not reported——
LiveBench Reasoning (LiveBench)92.2% ↗not reported——
LMArena Agent (LMArena)0.1382 ↗not reported——
LMArena WebDev (LMArena)1815.4 ↗not reported——
MirrorCode (Epoch AI run)77.4% ↗epoch runnot reported——
Mystery Game Puzzles (Epoch AI run)71% ↗epoch runnot reported——
OSWorld 2.0 (partial)81.8% ↗not reported——
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 (Epoch AI run)100% ↗epoch runnot reported——
SAGE (Vals AI)45.8% ↗not reported——
SimpleBench (SimpleBench)88.4% ↗not reported——
SimpleQA Verified72.2% ↗epoch runnot reported——
Terminal-Bench 4.066.4% ↗not reported——
Terminal-Bench 4.0 (Vals AI)65.2% ↗not reported——
Terminal-Bench Science 0.158.7% ↗not reported——
Vending-Bench 2 (Andon Labs)9235.25 ↗not reported——
Only DeepSeek V3.1-Terminus reports · 11
MMLU-Pronot reported85% ↗——
Humanity's Last Exam (no tools)not reported21.7% ↗——
Aider-Polyglotnot reported76.1% ↗——
BrowseCompnot reported38.5% ↗——
BrowseComp-zhnot reported45% ↗——
GPQA-Diamondnot reported80.7% ↗——
LiveCodeBenchnot reported74.9% ↗——
SimpleQA (agentic tool use)not reported96.8% ↗——
SWE Verifiednot reported68.4% ↗——
SWE-bench Multilingualnot reported57.8% ↗——
Terminal-benchnot reported36.7% ↗——
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 5.5 minus DeepSeek V3.1-Terminus 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

SpecClaude Opus 5.5DeepSeek V3.1-TerminusEdge
Context window1M tokens128K tokensClaude Opus 5.5
Max output128K tokens——
Input price / 1M$4 ↗——
Output price / 1M$20 ↗——
Cached input / 1M$0.2 ↗——
Input + output / 1M
Lower is cheaper. List prices; batch, tool and regional fees excluded.
$24——
Modalitiestext · visiontextClaude Opus 5.5
Released2026-09-222025-09-22—
Cited benchmark scores3412—
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