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Claude Opus 5.5 vs DeepSeek V4 Flash

Claude Opus 5.5 grades higher overall (99.5 against 72.1). DeepSeek V4 Flash costs 99% 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 V4 Flash

by DeepSeek · #27 of 67 overall

Coming soon · price at launch
Context
1M
Input / 1M
$0.090
Output / 1M
$0.18

Better overall

Claude Opus 5.5

Grade 99.5 vs 72.1

Cheaper

DeepSeek V4 Flash

99% less, $0.11 vs $8.00 blended

Larger context

DeepSeek V4 Flash

1M vs 1M tokens

SWE-Bench Pro

Claude Opus 5.5

89.9% vs 52.6%

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
DeepSeek V4 FlashDeepSeek V4 Flash: 1,436
LMArena WebDevElo-style rating · LMArena (CC BY 4.0) · Oct 13, 2026
Claude Opus 5.5Claude Opus 5.5: 1,811
DeepSeek V4 FlashDeepSeek V4 Flash: 1,582
LMArena CodingElo-style rating · LMArena (CC BY 4.0) · Oct 15, 2026
Claude Opus 5.5Claude Opus 5.5: 1,545
DeepSeek V4 FlashDeepSeek V4 Flash: 1,484
SWE-bench Verified% of issues resolved · SWE-bench · Apr 22, 2026 · reference
Claude Opus 5.5Claude Opus 5.5: —
DeepSeek V4 FlashDeepSeek V4 Flash: 79%v
SWE-Bench Pro% of tasks resolved · Scale AI SWE-Bench Pro · Sep 22, 2026 · reference
DeepSeek V4 FlashDeepSeek V4 Flash: 52.6%v
Terminal-Bench 4.0% of tasks passed · Terminal-Bench · Sep 22, 2026 · reference
DeepSeek V4 FlashDeepSeek V4 Flash: —
Terminal-Bench 2.0% of tasks passed · Terminal-Bench · Apr 22, 2026 · reference
Claude Opus 5.5Claude Opus 5.5: —
DeepSeek V4 FlashDeepSeek V4 Flash: 56.9%v
LiveCodeBenchpass@1, % · LiveCodeBench · Apr 22, 2026 · reference
Claude Opus 5.5Claude Opus 5.5: —
DeepSeek V4 FlashDeepSeek V4 Flash: 91.6%v

Claude Opus 5.5DeepSeek V4 Flashv = 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 V4 Flash$25.20 /month

DeepSeek V4 Flash saves you $1,575 a month at this usage, $18,898 a year.

At a glance

AttributeClaude Opus 5.5DeepSeek V4 Flash
Made byAnthropicDeepSeek
AvailabilityComing soonComing soon
Overall gradeExcellent · 99.5Excellent · 72.1
Overall rank#1 of 67#27 of 67
Input price$4.00 per 1M$0.090 per 1M
Output price$20.00 per 1M$0.18 per 1M
Context window1,000,000 tokens1,048,576 tokens
Reasoning levelsYesNo
Reads imagesYesNo
Model IDclaude-opus-5-5deepseek-v4-flash

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-v4-flash", "messages": [...]}'

Questions

Is Claude Opus 5.5 or DeepSeek V4 Flash better?

Claude Opus 5.5 grades 99.5 against 72.1 for DeepSeek V4 Flash, from public benchmarks.

Which is cheaper, Claude Opus 5.5 or DeepSeek V4 Flash?

DeepSeek V4 Flash: $0.090 in and $0.18 out per million tokens, against $4.00 and $20.00 through FullsendAI.

Which has the larger context window?

DeepSeek V4 Flash, with 1,048,576 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), 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.