Claude Fable 5.5 (Leaked Checkpoint) vs DeepSeek V4.1 Flash

A direct, empirical evaluation of Claude Fable 5.5 (Leaked Checkpoint) (Anthropic) against DeepSeek V4.1 Flash (DeepSeek-AI).

Claude Fable 5.5 (Leaked Checkpoint)

Developed by Anthropic · Proprietary Frontier Dynamic Reasoner parameters

Terminal-Bench 4.0 autonomous shell execution (78.5% target), recursive self-critique, and 1.5M-token repository refactoring.

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash

Developed by DeepSeek-AI · 552B parameters

High-throughput software engineering, autonomous coding loops, terminal agents, 1M long-context retrieval, and low-cost production inference.

Metric Claude Fable 5.5 (Leaked Checkpoint) DeepSeek V4.1 Flash
SWE-bench Verified 84.2% 67.2%
MMLU-Pro 94.6% 78.4%
MATH-500 98.4% 92.6%
Context Window 1,500,000 tokens 1,000,000 tokens
Input Pricing (per 1M) $3.50 $0.06
Output Pricing (per 1M) $17.50 $0.22