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Claude Opus 5.5 vs DeepSeek V3 (Thinking)

As of October 25, 2026, Claude Opus 5.5 leads DeepSeek V3 (Thinking) on the Analyzer Index, 98.4 to 82.0.

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Claude Opus 5.5
Anthropic
DeepSeek V3 (Thinking)
DeepSeek
At a glanceClaude Opus 5.5DeepSeek V3 (Thinking)
Analyzer Index98.4 (5/13)82.0 (4/13)
Blended price$8.00/M$0.50/M
Cheapest hostmaker's API$0.44/M
Context1.0M128k
Output speed245 tok/s25 tok/s
Time to first token4.00 s1.73 s
BenchmarkClaude Opus 5.5DeepSeek V3 (Thinking)
Chatbot Arena Elo

Arena

SWE-bench Verified

SWE-bench

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Output Speed

Speed

Time to First Token

TTFT

Rolling Contamination-Controlled Average

Rolling Avg

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Rolling Data Analysis

Data Analysis

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SimpleQA Verified

SimpleQA

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OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025

OTIS AIME

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ARC-AGI 2

ARC-AGI 2

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Aider Polyglot

Aider

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Frontier Composite

Frontier

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Output Stability

Stability

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Format Adherence

Format

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Recovery Rate

Recovery

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API Success Rate

API OK

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Safety Handling

Safety

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