Head-to-head comparison

Claude Opus 4.5 vs. DeepSeek-V4-Pro

Compare published benchmark results from matching versions and cohorts, API pricing, and technical specifications. Any documented test setup differences remain visible.

shared result series: 43
distinct benchmark metrics: 11
latest retrieval: 2026-10-19

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Specifications

General specifications

Release date, availability, context window, architecture, and published parameter counts at a glance. Undisclosed details remain marked as unavailable.

Specifications for Claude Opus 4.5 and DeepSeek-V4-Pro
Attribute	Claude Opus 4.5	DeepSeek-V4-Pro
Provider	Anthropic	DeepSeek
Released	Nov 2025	Apr 24, 2026
Availability	Active	Active
Model type	Proprietary	Open Weights
Parameters	Not published	1.6T, 49B active
Architecture	Not published	Mixture of Experts
Context window	200,000 tokens	1,000,000 tokens
Knowledge cutoff	May 2025	Not published
Technical sources	Model, Context	Model, Context

Pricing

API pricing compared

The table compares official standard API rates per 1M tokens, including published cache pricing. Batch, fast, priority, regional surcharges, tool calls, and cloud platform pricing are excluded.

API pricing for Claude Opus 4.5 and DeepSeek-V4-Pro
Price type	Claude Opus 4.5	DeepSeek-V4-Pro
API input	$5	$0.66 (Off-Peak)
API output	$25	$1.98 (Off-Peak)
Cache read	$0.5	$0.022 (Off-Peak)
Cache write (5 min.)	$6.25	Not listed
Cache write (1 hr.)	$10	Not listed
Price verified	09/22/2026 Source	09/22/2026 Source
DeepSeek-V4-Pro: peak pricing is $1.32 input / $3.96 output per 1M tokens during Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri, 01:00-04:00 UTC; Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri, 06:00-10:00 UTC; off-peak rates apply at all other times.

Claude Opus 4.5DeepSeek-V4-Pro

API inputUSD per 1M tokens, base tier

Claude Opus 4.5$5

DeepSeek-V4-Pro$0.66

API outputUSD per 1M tokens, base tier

Claude Opus 4.5$25

DeepSeek-V4-Pro$1.98

Cache readUSD per 1M tokens, base tier

Claude Opus 4.5$0.5

DeepSeek-V4-Pro$0.022

Key to the marks:better valuebetter, but not conclusivetie

Pricing by provider

Direct developer pricing and provider endpoint tariffs routed through OpenRouter are listed separately. Prices are in USD per 1M tokens. Context-dependent direct tiers plus regional, Flex, Priority, and other OpenRouter tariffs remain individually identifiable.

Provider pricing for Claude Opus 4.5 and DeepSeek-V4-Pro
Model	Provider	Purchase route and tariff	Input per 1M tokens	Output per 1M tokens	Source
Claude Opus 4.5	Anthropic	Direct from developerStandard API	Lowest listed price: $5	Lowest listed price: $25	Source09/22/2026
	Amazon Bedrock	Via OpenRouteramazon-bedrock	Lowest listed price: $5	Lowest listed price: $25	Source10/26/2026
	Amazon Bedrock	Via OpenRouteramazon-bedrock/eu-west-1	$5.5	$27.5	Source10/26/2026
	Anthropic	Via OpenRouteranthropic	Lowest listed price: $5	Lowest listed price: $25	Source10/26/2026
	Azure	Via OpenRouterazure/global	Lowest listed price: $5	Lowest listed price: $25	Source10/26/2026
	Claude Platform on AWS	Via OpenRouterclaude-on-aws	Lowest listed price: $5	Lowest listed price: $25	Source10/26/2026
	Google	Via OpenRoutergoogle-vertex/global	Lowest listed price: $5	Lowest listed price: $25	Source10/26/2026
DeepSeek-V4-Pro	DeepSeek	Direct from developerStandard API	$0.66	$1.98	Source09/22/2026
	Alibaba	Via OpenRouteralibaba	$1.122	$3.366	Source10/26/2026
	Alibaba	Via OpenRouteralibaba/us-east-1	$1.32	$3.96	Source10/26/2026
	AtlasCloud	Via OpenRouteratlas-cloud/fp8	$1.32	$3.96	Source10/26/2026
	Baidu	Via OpenRouterbaidu/fp8	$1.32	$3.96	Source10/26/2026
	BaseTen	Via OpenRouterbaseten/fp4	$1.32	$3.96	Source10/26/2026
	Cloudflare	Via OpenRoutercloudflare	$1.32	$3.96	Source10/26/2026
	CoreWeave	Via OpenRoutercoreweave/fp8	$1.31	$3.96	Source10/26/2026
	DeepInfra	Via OpenRouterdeepinfra/fp8	$1.3	$2.6	Source10/26/2026
	DeepSeek	Via OpenRouterdeepseek	$0.66	$1.98	Source10/26/2026
	DekaLLM	Via OpenRouterdekallm	$1.08	$3.8	Source10/26/2026
	DigitalOcean	Via OpenRouterdigitalocean	$1.32	$3.96	Source10/26/2026
	GMICloud	Via OpenRoutergmicloud/fp8	$1.056	$3.168	Source10/26/2026
	Ionstream	Via OpenRouterionstream	$0.37	$2.93	Source10/26/2026
	Novita	Via OpenRouternovita/fp8	$0.99	$2.97	Source10/26/2026
	Parasail	Via OpenRouterparasail/fp8	$1.32	$3.96	Source10/26/2026
	Phala	Via OpenRouterphala	$0.957	$2.8776	Source10/26/2026
	Relace	Via OpenRouterrelace/fp4	Lowest listed price: $0.2565	$8	Source10/26/2026
	Sail Research	Via OpenRoutersail-research/fp4	$0.45	Lowest listed price: $0.8	Source10/26/2026
	Sail Research	Via OpenRoutersail-research/us	$0.45	Lowest listed price: $0.8	Source10/26/2026
	SiliconFlow	Via OpenRoutersiliconflow/fp8	$1.32	$3.96	Source10/26/2026
	StreamLake	Via OpenRouterstreamlake	$0.66	$1.98	Source10/26/2026
	Together	Via OpenRoutertogether	$1.32	$3.96	Source10/26/2026
	Venice	Via OpenRoutervenice	$1.65	$4.95	Source10/26/2026
	Wafer	Via OpenRouterwafer/mxfp4	$0.285	$4.3	Source10/26/2026

Benchmark index

Benchmark index compared

The index combines independent benchmarks on a scale from 0 to 100. A lead only counts when a model comes first in at least 95% of 200 recalculations with randomly redrawn test families. Otherwise both count as level.

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Claude Opus 4.5

Overall index

12.1tied

DeepSeek-V4-Pro

Overall index

19.1tied

DeepSeek-V4-Pro leads in 3 of 7 shared areas. 4 areas are tied.

Area	Claude Opus 4.5	DeepSeek-V4-Pro
Codingtied	8.1	23.7
Reasoning	7.0	20.3
Knowledge	10.8	23.2
Agents	12.3	35.6
Financetied	19.8	12.8
Legaltied	15.3	10.9
Healthtied	19.6	9.4

Performance

Shared benchmarks

Only published results with the same benchmark version, task, metric, and comparison cohort are paired. Different reasoning levels, agents, harnesses, or output limits appear directly in the table.

Capability profile from matched benchmarks

Each axis averages directly matched benchmark families. A value of 100 means the stronger value within this pair, not a universal quality score.

Not enough directly matched categories for a reliable radar

Only 1 of at least 5 categories have comparable, direct model measurements. The benchmark tables below show the available evidence without filling missing axes.

Claude Opus 4.5DeepSeek-V4-Pro

AA-Omniscience AccuracyOverall. Higher is better. No documented setup difference

Claude Opus 4.540.9%

DeepSeek-V4-Pro41.4%

AA-Omniscience Hallucination RateOverall. Lower is better. No documented setup difference

Claude Opus 4.576.2%

DeepSeek-V4-Pro91.9%

CorpFin v2Overall. Higher is better. Test setup not documented as identical

Claude Opus 4.561.305 %

DeepSeek-V4-Pro61.383 %

GPQA DiamondOverall. Higher is better. Test setup not documented as identical

Claude Opus 4.579.546 %

DeepSeek-V4-Pro89.394 %

LegalBenchOverall. Higher is better. Test setup not documented as identical

Claude Opus 4.582.837 %

DeepSeek-V4-Pro80.323 %

LiveCodeBench v6Overall. Higher is better. Test setup not documented as identical

Claude Opus 4.575.034 %

DeepSeek-V4-Pro87.484 %

MedCodeOverall. Higher is better. Test setup not documented as identical

Claude Opus 4.545.174 %

DeepSeek-V4-Pro40.455 %

MedScribeOverall. Higher is better. Test setup not documented as identical

Claude Opus 4.583.246 %

DeepSeek-V4-Pro75.144 %

MMLU-ProOverall. Higher is better. Test setup not documented as identical

Claude Opus 4.585.59 %

DeepSeek-V4-Pro87.249 %

TaxEval v2Overall. Higher is better. Test setup not documented as identical

Claude Opus 4.574.325 %

DeepSeek-V4-Pro72.077 %

Terminal-Bench 2.0Overall. Higher is better. Test setup not documented as identical

Claude Opus 4.558.427 %

DeepSeek-V4-Pro56.18 %

CorpFin v2Exact Pages. Higher is better. Test setup not documented as identical

Claude Opus 4.560.839 %

DeepSeek-V4-Pro59.207 %

Key to the marks:better valuebetter, but not conclusivetie

Benchmark scores for Claude Opus 4.5 and DeepSeek-V4-Pro
Benchmark and task	Claude Opus 4.5	DeepSeek-V4-Pro	Source
AA-Omniscience AccuracyOverall Test details No documented difference in the test setupVersion: AA Omniscience diagnosticMetric: AA-Omniscience AccuracyScoring: Higher is betterClaude Opus 4.5: Snapshot: Claude Opus 4.5 (Non-reasoning), Reasoning: Non-reasoning, Attempts: AA-reported aggregate; diagnostic-specific run count is not stated on the leaderboard DeepSeek-V4-Pro: Snapshot: DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 (Non-reasoning), Reasoning: Non-reasoning, Attempts: AA-reported aggregate; diagnostic-specific run count is not stated on the leaderboardClaude Opus 4.5: Exact AA configuration: Claude Opus 4.5 (Non-reasoning) (release claude-opus-4-5, row claude-opus-4-5, UUID 4077490a-bbfb-404e-979a-a97a20e3b5de, reasoning=false, source reasoning-token configuration budget=0, suffix=Non-reasoning). This configured value is not measured token consumption. Proportion of all questions answered correctly, regardless of whether the model answers or abstains on other questions.DeepSeek-V4-Pro: Exact AA configuration: DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 (Non-reasoning) (release deepseek-v4-pro, row deepseek-v4-pro-non-reasoning, UUID d4f5b250-be37-4801-85e6-32fda4179337, reasoning=false, source reasoning-token configuration budget=0, suffix=Non-reasoning). This configured value is not measured token consumption. Proportion of all questions answered correctly, regardless of whether the model answers or abstains on other questions.	40.9% This is the separately published accuracy diagnostic, not the AA-Omniscience Index. AA identifies higher values as better.	Winner41.4% This is the separately published accuracy diagnostic, not the AA-Omniscience Index. AA identifies higher values as better.	Artificial Analysis Source details Data as of: 10/19/2026
AA-Omniscience Hallucination RateOverall Test details No documented difference in the test setupVersion: AA Omniscience diagnosticMetric: AA-Omniscience Hallucination RateScoring: Lower is betterClaude Opus 4.5: Snapshot: Claude Opus 4.5 (Non-reasoning), Reasoning: Non-reasoning, Attempts: AA-reported aggregate; diagnostic-specific run count is not stated on the leaderboard DeepSeek-V4-Pro: Snapshot: DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 (Non-reasoning), Reasoning: Non-reasoning, Attempts: AA-reported aggregate; diagnostic-specific run count is not stated on the leaderboardClaude Opus 4.5: Exact AA configuration: Claude Opus 4.5 (Non-reasoning) (release claude-opus-4-5, row claude-opus-4-5, UUID 4077490a-bbfb-404e-979a-a97a20e3b5de, reasoning=false, source reasoning-token configuration budget=0, suffix=Non-reasoning). This configured value is not measured token consumption. Proportion of incorrect answers among all non-correct responses: incorrect / (incorrect + partial answers + not attempted).DeepSeek-V4-Pro: Exact AA configuration: DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 (Non-reasoning) (release deepseek-v4-pro, row deepseek-v4-pro-non-reasoning, UUID d4f5b250-be37-4801-85e6-32fda4179337, reasoning=false, source reasoning-token configuration budget=0, suffix=Non-reasoning). This configured value is not measured token consumption. Proportion of incorrect answers among all non-correct responses: incorrect / (incorrect + partial answers + not attempted).	Winner76.2% This is the separately published hallucination-rate diagnostic, not the AA-Omniscience Index. AA identifies lower values as better.	91.9% This is the separately published hallucination-rate diagnostic, not the AA-Omniscience Index. AA identifies lower values as better.	Artificial Analysis Source details Data as of: 10/19/2026
CorpFin v2Overall Test details Test setup not documented as identicalNo direct winnerVersion: 2Metric: accuracyScoring: Higher is betterClaude Opus 4.5: Snapshot: claude-opus-4-5-20251101, Compute: high, Temperature: 1, Output limit: 64,000 tokens DeepSeek-V4-Pro: Reasoning: max, Output limit: 128,000 tokens	61.305 %	Higher measured value61.383 %	Vals AI Source details Data as of: 08/12/2026
GPQA DiamondOverall Test details Test setup not documented as identicalNo direct winnerVersion: 1Metric: accuracyScoring: Higher is betterClaude Opus 4.5: Snapshot: claude-opus-4-5-20251101, Compute: high, Temperature: 1, Output limit: 64,000 tokens DeepSeek-V4-Pro: Reasoning: max, Output limit: 256,000 tokens	79.546 %	Higher measured value89.394 %	Vals AI Source details Data as of: 09/01/2026
LegalBenchOverall Test details Test setup not documented as identicalNo direct winnerVersion: 1Metric: accuracyScoring: Higher is betterClaude Opus 4.5: Snapshot: claude-opus-4-5-20251101, Compute: high, Temperature: 1, Output limit: 64,000 tokens DeepSeek-V4-Pro: Reasoning: max, Output limit: 256,000 tokens	Higher measured value82.837 %	80.323 %	Vals AI Source details Data as of: 10/13/2026
LiveCodeBench v6Overall Test details Test setup not documented as identicalNo direct winnerVersion: 1Metric: accuracyScoring: Higher is betterClaude Opus 4.5: Snapshot: claude-opus-4-5-20251101, Compute: high, Temperature: 1, Output limit: 64,000 tokens DeepSeek-V4-Pro: Reasoning: max, Output limit: 128,000 tokens	75.034 %	Higher measured value87.484 %	Vals AI Source details Data as of: 09/01/2026
MedCodeOverall Test details Test setup not documented as identicalNo direct winnerVersion: 1Metric: accuracyScoring: Higher is betterClaude Opus 4.5: Snapshot: claude-opus-4-5-20251101, Compute: high, Temperature: 1, Output limit: 30,000 tokens DeepSeek-V4-Pro: Reasoning: max, Output limit: 128,000 tokens	Higher measured value45.174 %	40.455 %	Vals AI Source details Data as of: 10/13/2026
MedScribeOverall Test details Test setup not documented as identicalNo direct winnerVersion: 1Metric: accuracyScoring: Higher is betterClaude Opus 4.5: Snapshot: claude-opus-4-5-20251101, Compute: high, Temperature: 1, Output limit: 30,000 tokens DeepSeek-V4-Pro: Reasoning: max, Output limit: 128,000 tokens	Higher measured value83.246 %	75.144 %	Vals AI Source details Data as of: 10/13/2026
MMLU-ProOverall Test details Test setup not documented as identicalNo direct winnerVersion: 1Metric: accuracyScoring: Higher is betterClaude Opus 4.5: Snapshot: claude-opus-4-5-20251101, Compute: high, Temperature: 1, Output limit: 64,000 tokens DeepSeek-V4-Pro: Reasoning: max, Output limit: 256,000 tokens	85.59 %	Higher measured value87.249 %	Vals AI Source details Data as of: 09/01/2026
TaxEval v2Overall Test details Test setup not documented as identicalNo direct winnerVersion: 2Metric: accuracyScoring: Higher is betterClaude Opus 4.5: Snapshot: claude-opus-4-5-20251101, Compute: high, Temperature: 1, Output limit: 64,000 tokens DeepSeek-V4-Pro: Reasoning: max, Output limit: 128,000 tokens	Higher measured value74.325 %	72.077 %	Vals AI Source details Data as of: 09/01/2026
Terminal-Bench 2.0Overall Test details Test setup not documented as identicalNo direct winnerVersion: 2.0Metric: accuracyScoring: Higher is betterClaude Opus 4.5: Snapshot: claude-opus-4-5-20251101, Compute: high, Temperature: 1, Output limit: 64,000 tokens DeepSeek-V4-Pro: Output limit: 128,000 tokens	Higher measured value58.427 %	56.18 %	Vals AI Source details Data as of: 06/04/2026
CorpFin v2Exact Pages Test details Test setup not documented as identicalNo direct winnerVersion: 2Metric: accuracyScoring: Higher is betterClaude Opus 4.5: Snapshot: claude-opus-4-5-20251101, Compute: high, Temperature: 1, Output limit: 64,000 tokens DeepSeek-V4-Pro: Reasoning: max, Output limit: 128,000 tokens	Higher measured value60.839 %	59.207 %	Vals AI Source details Data as of: 08/12/2026
GPQA DiamondFew-Shot CoT Test details Test setup not documented as identicalNo direct winnerVersion: 1Metric: accuracyScoring: Higher is betterClaude Opus 4.5: Snapshot: claude-opus-4-5-20251101, Compute: high, Temperature: 1, Output limit: 64,000 tokens DeepSeek-V4-Pro: Reasoning: max, Output limit: 256,000 tokens	79.293 %	Higher measured value90.404 %	Vals AI Source details Data as of: 09/01/2026
LegalBenchConclusion Tasks Test details Test setup not documented as identicalNo direct winnerVersion: 1Metric: accuracyScoring: Higher is betterClaude Opus 4.5: Snapshot: claude-opus-4-5-20251101, Compute: high, Temperature: 1, Output limit: 64,000 tokens DeepSeek-V4-Pro: Reasoning: max, Output limit: 256,000 tokens	87.7 %	Higher measured value89.117 %	Vals AI Source details Data as of: 10/13/2026
LiveCodeBench v6Easy Test details Test setup not documented as identicalNo direct winnerVersion: 1Metric: accuracyScoring: Higher is betterClaude Opus 4.5: Snapshot: claude-opus-4-5-20251101, Compute: high, Temperature: 1, Output limit: 64,000 tokens DeepSeek-V4-Pro: Reasoning: max, Output limit: 128,000 tokens	Higher measured value99.068 %	98.758 %	Vals AI Source details Data as of: 09/01/2026
MMLU-ProBiology Test details Test setup not documented as identicalNo direct winnerVersion: 1Metric: accuracyScoring: Higher is betterClaude Opus 4.5: Snapshot: claude-opus-4-5-20251101, Compute: high, Temperature: 1, Output limit: 64,000 tokens DeepSeek-V4-Pro: Reasoning: max, Output limit: 256,000 tokens	Higher measured value94.003 %	92.887 %	Vals AI Source details Data as of: 09/01/2026
TaxEval v2Correctness Test details Test setup not documented as identicalNo direct winnerVersion: 2Metric: accuracyScoring: Higher is betterClaude Opus 4.5: Snapshot: claude-opus-4-5-20251101, Compute: high, Temperature: 1, Output limit: 64,000 tokens DeepSeek-V4-Pro: Reasoning: max, Output limit: 128,000 tokens	Higher measured value63.123 %	60.589 %	Vals AI Source details Data as of: 09/01/2026
Terminal-Bench 2.0Easy Test details Test setup not documented as identicalNo direct winnerVersion: 2.0Metric: accuracyScoring: Higher is betterClaude Opus 4.5: Snapshot: claude-opus-4-5-20251101, Compute: high, Temperature: 1, Output limit: 64,000 tokens DeepSeek-V4-Pro: Output limit: 128,000 tokens	Higher measured value100 %	75 %	Vals AI Source details Data as of: 06/04/2026
CorpFin v2Max Fitting Context Test details Test setup not documented as identicalNo direct winnerVersion: 2Metric: accuracyScoring: Higher is betterClaude Opus 4.5: Snapshot: claude-opus-4-5-20251101, Compute: high, Temperature: 1, Output limit: 64,000 tokens DeepSeek-V4-Pro: Reasoning: max, Output limit: 128,000 tokens	60.723 %	Higher measured value63.054 %	Vals AI Source details Data as of: 08/12/2026
GPQA DiamondZero-Shot CoT Test details Test setup not documented as identicalNo direct winnerVersion: 1Metric: accuracyScoring: Higher is betterClaude Opus 4.5: Snapshot: claude-opus-4-5-20251101, Compute: high, Temperature: 1, Output limit: 64,000 tokens DeepSeek-V4-Pro: Reasoning: max, Output limit: 256,000 tokens	79.798 %	Higher measured value88.384 %	Vals AI Source details Data as of: 09/01/2026
LegalBenchInterpretation Tasks Test details Test setup not documented as identicalNo direct winnerVersion: 1Metric: accuracyScoring: Higher is betterClaude Opus 4.5: Snapshot: claude-opus-4-5-20251101, Compute: high, Temperature: 1, Output limit: 64,000 tokens DeepSeek-V4-Pro: Reasoning: max, Output limit: 256,000 tokens	Higher measured value82.235 %	75.169 %	Vals AI Source details Data as of: 10/13/2026
LiveCodeBench v6Hard Test details Test setup not documented as identicalNo direct winnerVersion: 1Metric: accuracyScoring: Higher is betterClaude Opus 4.5: Snapshot: claude-opus-4-5-20251101, Compute: high, Temperature: 1, Output limit: 64,000 tokens DeepSeek-V4-Pro: Reasoning: max, Output limit: 128,000 tokens	44.571 %	Higher measured value72.571 %	Vals AI Source details Data as of: 09/01/2026
MMLU-ProBusiness Test details Test setup not documented as identicalNo direct winnerVersion: 1Metric: accuracyScoring: Higher is betterClaude Opus 4.5: Snapshot: claude-opus-4-5-20251101, Compute: high, Temperature: 1, Output limit: 64,000 tokens DeepSeek-V4-Pro: Reasoning: max, Output limit: 256,000 tokens	80.862 %	Higher measured value91.888 %	Vals AI Source details Data as of: 09/01/2026
TaxEval v2Stepwise Reasoning Test details Test setup not documented as identicalNo direct winnerVersion: 2Metric: accuracyScoring: Higher is betterClaude Opus 4.5: Snapshot: claude-opus-4-5-20251101, Compute: high, Temperature: 1, Output limit: 64,000 tokens DeepSeek-V4-Pro: Reasoning: max, Output limit: 128,000 tokens	Higher measured value85.527 %	83.565 %	Vals AI Source details Data as of: 09/01/2026
Terminal-Bench 2.0Hard Test details Test setup not documented as identicalNo direct winnerVersion: 2.0Metric: accuracyScoring: Higher is betterClaude Opus 4.5: Snapshot: claude-opus-4-5-20251101, Compute: high, Temperature: 1, Output limit: 64,000 tokens DeepSeek-V4-Pro: Output limit: 128,000 tokens	No direct winner33.333 %	No direct winner33.333 %	Vals AI Source details Data as of: 06/04/2026
CorpFin v2Shared Max Context Test details Test setup not documented as identicalNo direct winnerVersion: 2Metric: accuracyScoring: Higher is betterClaude Opus 4.5: Snapshot: claude-opus-4-5-20251101, Compute: high, Temperature: 1, Output limit: 64,000 tokens DeepSeek-V4-Pro: Reasoning: max, Output limit: 128,000 tokens	Higher measured value62.354 %	61.888 %	Vals AI Source details Data as of: 08/12/2026
LegalBenchIssue Tasks Test details Test setup not documented as identicalNo direct winnerVersion: 1Metric: accuracyScoring: Higher is betterClaude Opus 4.5: Snapshot: claude-opus-4-5-20251101, Compute: high, Temperature: 1, Output limit: 64,000 tokens DeepSeek-V4-Pro: Reasoning: max, Output limit: 256,000 tokens	84.152 %	Higher measured value84.587 %	Vals AI Source details Data as of: 10/13/2026
LiveCodeBench v6Medium Test details Test setup not documented as identicalNo direct winnerVersion: 1Metric: accuracyScoring: Higher is betterClaude Opus 4.5: Snapshot: claude-opus-4-5-20251101, Compute: high, Temperature: 1, Output limit: 64,000 tokens DeepSeek-V4-Pro: Reasoning: max, Output limit: 128,000 tokens	81.462 %	Higher measured value91.123 %	Vals AI Source details Data as of: 09/01/2026
MMLU-ProChemistry Test details Test setup not documented as identicalNo direct winnerVersion: 1Metric: accuracyScoring: Higher is betterClaude Opus 4.5: Snapshot: claude-opus-4-5-20251101, Compute: high, Temperature: 1, Output limit: 64,000 tokens DeepSeek-V4-Pro: Reasoning: max, Output limit: 256,000 tokens	89.488 %	Higher measured value92.491 %	Vals AI Source details Data as of: 09/01/2026
Terminal-Bench 2.0Medium Test details Test setup not documented as identicalNo direct winnerVersion: 2.0Metric: accuracyScoring: Higher is betterClaude Opus 4.5: Snapshot: claude-opus-4-5-20251101, Compute: high, Temperature: 1, Output limit: 64,000 tokens DeepSeek-V4-Pro: Output limit: 128,000 tokens	Higher measured value69.091 %	67.273 %	Vals AI Source details Data as of: 06/04/2026
LegalBenchRhetoric Tasks Test details Test setup not documented as identicalNo direct winnerVersion: 1Metric: accuracyScoring: Higher is betterClaude Opus 4.5: Snapshot: claude-opus-4-5-20251101, Compute: high, Temperature: 1, Output limit: 64,000 tokens DeepSeek-V4-Pro: Reasoning: max, Output limit: 256,000 tokens	Higher measured value79.777 %	75.316 %	Vals AI Source details Data as of: 10/13/2026
MMLU-ProComputer Science Test details Test setup not documented as identicalNo direct winnerVersion: 1Metric: accuracyScoring: Higher is betterClaude Opus 4.5: Snapshot: claude-opus-4-5-20251101, Compute: high, Temperature: 1, Output limit: 64,000 tokens DeepSeek-V4-Pro: Reasoning: max, Output limit: 256,000 tokens	84.146 %	Higher measured value89.024 %	Vals AI Source details Data as of: 09/01/2026
LegalBenchRule Tasks Test details Test setup not documented as identicalNo direct winnerVersion: 1Metric: accuracyScoring: Higher is betterClaude Opus 4.5: Snapshot: claude-opus-4-5-20251101, Compute: high, Temperature: 1, Output limit: 64,000 tokens DeepSeek-V4-Pro: Reasoning: max, Output limit: 256,000 tokens	Higher measured value80.32 %	77.425 %	Vals AI Source details Data as of: 10/13/2026
MMLU-ProEconomics Test details Test setup not documented as identicalNo direct winnerVersion: 1Metric: accuracyScoring: Higher is betterClaude Opus 4.5: Snapshot: claude-opus-4-5-20251101, Compute: high, Temperature: 1, Output limit: 64,000 tokens DeepSeek-V4-Pro: Reasoning: max, Output limit: 256,000 tokens	Higher measured value89.573 %	88.863 %	Vals AI Source details Data as of: 09/01/2026
MMLU-ProEngineering Test details Test setup not documented as identicalNo direct winnerVersion: 1Metric: accuracyScoring: Higher is betterClaude Opus 4.5: Snapshot: claude-opus-4-5-20251101, Compute: high, Temperature: 1, Output limit: 64,000 tokens DeepSeek-V4-Pro: Reasoning: max, Output limit: 256,000 tokens	76.161 %	Higher measured value86.687 %	Vals AI Source details Data as of: 09/01/2026
MMLU-ProHealth Test details Test setup not documented as identicalNo direct winnerVersion: 1Metric: accuracyScoring: Higher is betterClaude Opus 4.5: Snapshot: claude-opus-4-5-20251101, Compute: high, Temperature: 1, Output limit: 64,000 tokens DeepSeek-V4-Pro: Reasoning: max, Output limit: 256,000 tokens	Higher measured value83.985 %	82.396 %	Vals AI Source details Data as of: 09/01/2026
MMLU-ProHistory Test details Test setup not documented as identicalNo direct winnerVersion: 1Metric: accuracyScoring: Higher is betterClaude Opus 4.5: Snapshot: claude-opus-4-5-20251101, Compute: high, Temperature: 1, Output limit: 64,000 tokens DeepSeek-V4-Pro: Reasoning: max, Output limit: 256,000 tokens	Higher measured value78.478 %	77.69 %	Vals AI Source details Data as of: 09/01/2026
MMLU-ProLaw Test details Test setup not documented as identicalNo direct winnerVersion: 1Metric: accuracyScoring: Higher is betterClaude Opus 4.5: Snapshot: claude-opus-4-5-20251101, Compute: high, Temperature: 1, Output limit: 64,000 tokens DeepSeek-V4-Pro: Reasoning: max, Output limit: 256,000 tokens	Higher measured value78.292 %	74.024 %	Vals AI Source details Data as of: 09/01/2026
MMLU-ProMath Test details Test setup not documented as identicalNo direct winnerVersion: 1Metric: accuracyScoring: Higher is betterClaude Opus 4.5: Snapshot: claude-opus-4-5-20251101, Compute: high, Temperature: 1, Output limit: 64,000 tokens DeepSeek-V4-Pro: Reasoning: max, Output limit: 256,000 tokens	92.302 %	Higher measured value95.337 %	Vals AI Source details Data as of: 09/01/2026
MMLU-ProOthers Test details Test setup not documented as identicalNo direct winnerVersion: 1Metric: accuracyScoring: Higher is betterClaude Opus 4.5: Snapshot: claude-opus-4-5-20251101, Compute: high, Temperature: 1, Output limit: 64,000 tokens DeepSeek-V4-Pro: Reasoning: max, Output limit: 256,000 tokens	Higher measured value84.632 %	84.199 %	Vals AI Source details Data as of: 09/01/2026
MMLU-ProPhilosophy Test details Test setup not documented as identicalNo direct winnerVersion: 1Metric: accuracyScoring: Higher is betterClaude Opus 4.5: Snapshot: claude-opus-4-5-20251101, Compute: high, Temperature: 1, Output limit: 64,000 tokens DeepSeek-V4-Pro: Reasoning: max, Output limit: 256,000 tokens	Higher measured value87.776 %	84.569 %	Vals AI Source details Data as of: 09/01/2026
MMLU-ProPhysics Test details Test setup not documented as identicalNo direct winnerVersion: 1Metric: accuracyScoring: Higher is betterClaude Opus 4.5: Snapshot: claude-opus-4-5-20251101, Compute: high, Temperature: 1, Output limit: 64,000 tokens DeepSeek-V4-Pro: Reasoning: max, Output limit: 256,000 tokens	89.838 %	Higher measured value93.457 %	Vals AI Source details Data as of: 09/01/2026
MMLU-ProPsychology Test details Test setup not documented as identicalNo direct winnerVersion: 1Metric: accuracyScoring: Higher is betterClaude Opus 4.5: Snapshot: claude-opus-4-5-20251101, Compute: high, Temperature: 1, Output limit: 64,000 tokens DeepSeek-V4-Pro: Reasoning: max, Output limit: 256,000 tokens	Higher measured value88.722 %	87.97 %	Vals AI Source details Data as of: 09/01/2026
Key to the marks:better valuebetter, but not conclusivetie

Our model tests

Our tests

SVG short test

One SVG prompt and fixed output settings. Captures are shown only with 0 reported reasoning tokens or documented lack of reasoning controls. Identical test conditions do not make the models' internal compute identical.

Shared test round: 43b8c5c46830

Claude Opus 4.5

Unavailable in this round

DeepSeek-V4-Pro

Earlier tests

Pelican on a bicycle

A community classic for free-form SVG drawing.

Claude Opus 4.5

Reasoning (requested): high

Current attempt

Run date: Oct 1, 2026
API provider: openrouter
Requested API model: anthropic/claude-opus-4.5
API model reported in response: anthropic/claude-opus-4.5
Reasoning setting: high
Pinned endpoint: Anthropic | anthropic/claude-4.5-opus-20251124
Temperature: Provider default
Token limit including reasoning: 8,192 tokens
Test protocol: community-visual-tests-v1
Technical checks: Passed, not a quality rating
Response time: 21.6 s

Visually reviewed. This individual test does not establish overall model quality.

DeepSeek-V4-Pro

The response reached the token limit. No complete recording is available.

Reasoning (requested): high

Current attempt

Run date: Oct 5, 2026
API provider: openrouter
Requested API model: deepseek/deepseek-v4-pro-0813
API model reported in response: deepseek/deepseek-v4-pro-0813
Reasoning setting: high
Pinned endpoint: DeepSeek | deepseek/deepseek-v4-pro-20260813
Temperature: Provider default
Token limit including reasoning: 8,192 tokens
Test protocol: community-visual-tests-v1
Technical checks: Failed
Response time: 67.6 s

Not yet visually reviewed. A successful recording does not confirm correct physics or full compliance with the prompt.

Earlier attempts (3)

Oct 2, 2026API request failedReasoning setting: high
Oct 1, 2026API request failedReasoning setting: high
Sep 7, 2026API request failedReasoning setting: high

Prompt and test conditions

Generate an SVG of a pelican riding a bicycle

Token limit including reasoning: 8,192 tokens

Task origin (Simon Willison)

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