Claude Fable 5.5 (Leaked Checkpoint) vs DeepSeek V5 (Leaked Staging)

A direct, empirical evaluation of Claude Fable 5.5 (Leaked Checkpoint) (Anthropic) against DeepSeek V5 (Leaked Staging) (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 V5 (Leaked Staging)

Developed by DeepSeek AI · 1.8 Trillion (Sparse MoE) parameters

Autonomous coding agents scoring 81.4% on SWE-bench Verified, zero-telemetry self-hosting, sub-cent 1M-token processing, and formal mathematical proofs.

Metric Claude Fable 5.5 (Leaked Checkpoint) DeepSeek V5 (Leaked Staging)
SWE-bench Verified 84.2% 81.4%
MMLU-Pro 94.6% 87.5%
MATH-500 98.4% 96.8%
Context Window 1,500,000 tokens 1,000,000 tokens
Input Pricing (per 1M) $3.50 $0.12
Output Pricing (per 1M) $17.50 $0.48