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Claude Opus 5.5 vs DeepSeek V3.1

Claude Opus 5.5 grades higher overall (99.5 against 68.7). DeepSeek V3.1 costs 95% less for the same work.

Claude Opus 5.5

by Anthropic · #1 of 67 overall

Coming soon · price at launch
Context
1M
Input / 1M
$4.00
Output / 1M
$20.00

DeepSeek V3.1

by DeepSeek · #31 of 67 overall

Coming soon · price at launch
Context
160K
Input / 1M
$0.25
Output / 1M
$0.95

Better overall

Claude Opus 5.5

Grade 99.5 vs 68.7

Cheaper

DeepSeek V3.1

95% less, $0.42 vs $8.00 blended

Larger context

Claude Opus 5.5

1M vs 160K tokens

Head to head

Public benchmarks. Longer is better; each value links to its source.

LMArena TextElo-style rating · LMArena (CC BY 4.0) · Oct 15, 2026
Claude Opus 5.5Claude Opus 5.5: 1,508
LMArena WebDevElo-style rating · LMArena (CC BY 4.0) · Oct 13, 2026
Claude Opus 5.5Claude Opus 5.5: 1,811
DeepSeek V3.1DeepSeek V3.1: —
LMArena CodingElo-style rating · LMArena (CC BY 4.0) · Oct 15, 2026
Claude Opus 5.5Claude Opus 5.5: 1,545
Aider Polyglot% of exercises solved · Aider (aider.chat) · Aug 21, 2025
Claude Opus 5.5Claude Opus 5.5: —
SWE-bench Verified% of issues resolved · SWE-bench · Aug 21, 2025 · reference
Claude Opus 5.5Claude Opus 5.5: —
DeepSeek V3.1DeepSeek V3.1: 66%v
SWE-Bench Pro% of tasks resolved · Scale AI SWE-Bench Pro · Sep 22, 2026 · reference
DeepSeek V3.1DeepSeek V3.1: —
Terminal-Bench 4.0% of tasks passed · Terminal-Bench · Sep 22, 2026 · reference
DeepSeek V3.1DeepSeek V3.1: —
LiveCodeBenchpass@1, % · LiveCodeBench · Aug 21, 2025 · reference
Claude Opus 5.5Claude Opus 5.5: —

Claude Opus 5.5DeepSeek V3.1v = reported by the model’s maker. — = no public score yet. Arena bars span the range across every model we grade.

What it costs you

Drag to match your monthly usage.

Claude Opus 5.5$1,600 /month
DeepSeek V3.1$88.00 /month

DeepSeek V3.1 saves you $1,512 a month at this usage, $18,144 a year.

At a glance

AttributeClaude Opus 5.5DeepSeek V3.1
Made byAnthropicDeepSeek
AvailabilityComing soonComing soon
Overall gradeExcellent · 99.5Strong · 68.7
Overall rank#1 of 67#31 of 67
Input price$4.00 per 1M$0.25 per 1M
Output price$20.00 per 1M$0.95 per 1M
Context window1,000,000 tokens163,840 tokens
Reasoning levelsYesYes
Reads imagesYesNo
Model IDclaude-opus-5-5deepseek-v3.1

Try both with one key

Same endpoint, same key, both hosted in the USA. Change one word to switch models, in Claude Code, Cursor, Cline or your own code.

Get your API key
# Ask either model the same thing
curl https://fullsendai.com/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $FULLSEND_API_KEY" \
  -d '{"model": "claude-opus-5-5", "messages": [...]}'

# …then swap one word
  -d '{"model": "deepseek-v3.1", "messages": [...]}'

Questions

Is Claude Opus 5.5 or DeepSeek V3.1 better?

Claude Opus 5.5 grades 99.5 against 68.7 for DeepSeek V3.1, from public benchmarks.

Which is cheaper, Claude Opus 5.5 or DeepSeek V3.1?

DeepSeek V3.1: $0.25 in and $0.95 out per million tokens, against $4.00 and $20.00 through FullsendAI.

Which has the larger context window?

Claude Opus 5.5, with 1,000,000 tokens.

Can I use both with one API key?

Yes, once they launch: both are coming soon, at the prices shown, and both will use the same FullsendAI key.

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Scores: LMArena (CC BY 4.0), Aider (aider.chat), SWE-bench, Scale AI SWE-Bench Pro, Terminal-Bench, LiveCodeBench, and model makers’ published results where marked v. Prices are FullsendAI’s, per million tokens. Data as of Oct 28, 2026.