The Known Good Updated 25 Jul 2026
claude-opus-4-5-20251101 vs DeepSeek: DeepSeek V3 0324 ·Anthropic vs DeepSeek

claude-opus-4-5-20251101 vs DeepSeek: DeepSeek V3 0324 — head-to-head comparison

claude-opus-4-5-20251101 profile DeepSeek: DeepSeek V3 0324 profile All comparisons
claude-opus-4-5-20251101 — Anthropic
Quality
#22 of 61
72based on 5 of 6 evaluations
Known Good Index
Speed
unranked
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Output tokens per second
Price
unranked
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Blended per 1M tokens
Cache hit price
unranked
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per 1M tokens
Context
unranked
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tokens
DeepSeek: DeepSeek V3 0324 — DeepSeek
Quality
#35 of 61
60based on 3 of 6 evaluations
Known Good Index
Speed
#257 of 316
26.1
Output tokens per second
Price
#133 of 340
$0.48
Blended per 1M tokens
In $0.27 · Out $1.12
Cache hit price
#118 of 206
$0.14
per 1M tokens (−50%)
Context
#224 of 345
164k
tokens (~300 pages)
Summary

On the Known Good Index, claude-opus-4-5-20251101 scores 72 and DeepSeek: DeepSeek V3 0324 scores 60 — a 12-point lead for claude-opus-4-5-20251101. They share 2 published evaluations, with claude-opus-4-5-20251101 ahead on 2 and DeepSeek: DeepSeek V3 0324 ahead on 0.

Published pricing is tracked for DeepSeek: DeepSeek V3 0324 only, at $0.48 per 1M tokens blended.

claude-opus-4-5-20251101 is proprietary; DeepSeek: DeepSeek V3 0324 is open weights. 4 tracked hosts serve one or both.

Generated from tracked data on 26 Jul 2026 · how these comparisons are computed →

At a glance
Metricclaude-opus-4-5-20251101DeepSeek: DeepSeek V3 0324
Known Good Index 72 based on 5 of 6 evaluations 60 based on 3 of 6 evaluations
Blended $/1M — $0.48
Output tok/s — 26
Context window — 164k
Providers 0 4
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Quality

Known Good Index and the capability indices, side by side

IndicesComponents
Index scores

Each index is min-max normalised across tracked models and scaled 0–100 from published evaluations. We do not run these evaluations.

Metricclaude-opus-4-5-20251101DeepSeek: DeepSeek V3 0324
Known Good Index 72 60
Coding Index 78 —
Mathematics Index 86 57
Science Index 89 67
Reasoning Index 58 65
Agentic Index 78 —
Openness Index 5 100
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Quality Breakdown

Every evaluation both models report a published score for

Evaluations both models report

Bar = claude-opus-4-5-20251101 · marker = DeepSeek: DeepSeek V3 0324 · scores ingested from Epoch AI (CC-BY 4.0)

GPQA Diamond86 / 68
MATH / AIME86 / 38

Right-hand figures read claude-opus-4-5-20251101 / DeepSeek: DeepSeek V3 0324. claude-opus-4-5-20251101 leads on 2 of 2, DeepSeek: DeepSeek V3 0324 on 0.

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Arena Elo

Human preference rating from blind pairwise votes

Arena ratings

Elo from blind pairwise votes, ingested from Arena. Higher is better.

Metricclaude-opus-4-5-20251101DeepSeek: DeepSeek V3 0324
Text Arena 1,450 1,375
Text Arena (style controlled) 1,469 1,396
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Price & Cost

Published API pricing by token type

Per token typeCache discount
Published pricing

USD per 1M tokens. Blended is a 3:1 input:output mix. Live from OpenRouter, cross-checked against models.dev. Lower is better.

Metricclaude-opus-4-5-20251101DeepSeek: DeepSeek V3 0324
Input $/1M — $0.27
Output $/1M — $1.12
Blended $/1M — $0.48
Cache read $/1M — $0.135
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We publish blended price rather than cost-per-task. Cost-per-task requires token counts from an evaluation suite we do not run. Blended price is computed from published rates and is fully reproducible — see the pricing methodology.

Context Window

Maximum input accepted and maximum output emitted

Context and output limits

Provider-declared limits, from metadata via models.dev and OpenRouter. Higher is better.

Metricclaude-opus-4-5-20251101DeepSeek: DeepSeek V3 0324
Context window — 164k
Max output tokens — 66k
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Speed & Latency

Median throughput and time to first token across hosting providers

Output speedTime to first token
Throughput and latency

Medians across all tracked providers, derived from OpenRouter endpoint telemetry.

Metricclaude-opus-4-5-20251101DeepSeek: DeepSeek V3 0324
Output tokens/s — 26
Time to first token — 1.1s
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Providers

Which hosts serve each model, and at what price and speed

4 hosts
Full provider benchmarks →
Provider claude-opus-4-5-20251101 blendedclaude-opus-4-5-20251101 tok/s DeepSeek: DeepSeek V3 0324 blendedDeepSeek: DeepSeek V3 0324 tok/s
Crusoe — — $0.75 36
Novita — — $0.48 29
SiliconFlow — — $0.44 21
DeepInfra — — $0.41 20

Per-host pricing and telemetry from OpenRouter. A dash means that host does not serve that model.

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