Claude Opus 5.5 vs DeepSeek V4.1 Flash

A direct, empirical evaluation of Claude Opus 5.5 (Anthropic) against DeepSeek V4.1 Flash (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 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 Opus 5.5 DeepSeek V4.1 Flash
SWE-bench Verified 89.9% 67.2%
MMLU-Pro 92.4% 78.4%
MATH-500 97.2% 92.6%
Context Window 500,000 tokens 1,000,000 tokens
Input Pricing (per 1M) $4.00 $0.06
Output Pricing (per 1M) $20.00 $0.22