Claude Opus 5.5 vs DeepSeek-V3

A direct, empirical evaluation of Claude Opus 5.5 (Anthropic) against DeepSeek-V3 (DeepSeek-AI).

Claude Opus 5.5

Developed by Anthropic · Proprietary Frontier Reasoner parameters

Autonomous enterprise codebase migrations, GitHub Copilot multi-file edits, SWE-bench Pro issue resolution (89.9%), and CodeRabbit automated reviews.

DeepSeek-V3

Developed by DeepSeek-AI · 671B parameters

Cost-effective high-throughput general reasoning and bilingual generation.

Metric Claude Opus 5.5 DeepSeek-V3
SWE-bench Verified 89.9% 49.2%
MMLU-Pro 92.4% 75.9%
MATH-500 97.2% 90.2%
Context Window 500,000 tokens 128,000 tokens
Input Pricing (per 1M) $4.00 $0.14
Output Pricing (per 1M) $20.00 $0.28