Claude Opus 5.5 vs DeepSeek V5 (Leaked Staging)

A direct, empirical evaluation of Claude Opus 5.5 (Anthropic) against DeepSeek V5 (Leaked Staging) (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 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 Opus 5.5 DeepSeek V5 (Leaked Staging)
SWE-bench Verified 89.9% 81.4%
MMLU-Pro 92.4% 87.5%
MATH-500 97.2% 96.8%
Context Window 500,000 tokens 1,000,000 tokens
Input Pricing (per 1M) $4.00 $0.12
Output Pricing (per 1M) $20.00 $0.48