LLM Comparison

Claude Opus 4.8 vs DeepSeek V4 Pro (Max): benchmark scores, pricing & comparison.

Side-by-side Claude Opus 4.8 vs DeepSeek V4 Pro (Max) comparison across SWE-bench, GPQA, HLE, Terminal-Bench, coding agent scores, token pricing, context window, and AskClash RWT. Green marks the winner on each benchmark.

Open live leaderboardClaude Opus 4.8 model pageDeepSeek V4 Pro (Max) model page
Rank #3 vs #27AskClash overall scores 80.6 vs 48.7.
Pricing $5.00/$25.0 vs $0.43/$0.87Input and output token prices per 1M tokens when published.
Proprietary vs Open WeightAnthropic vs DeepSeek.

Claude Opus 4.8 vs DeepSeek V4 Pro (Max) benchmark comparison

Green cells highlight the winning model for each metric. Scores are cached from the AskClash LLM leaderboard snapshot.

MetricClaude Opus 4.8DeepSeek V4 Pro (Max)
Overall Score80.648.7
Leaderboard Rank#3#27
RWT9.07.0
Coding Agent Index72.5—
HLE57.937.7
GPQA93.690.1
MATH-500—64.5
IFEval62.2—
SWE-bench88.680.6
SWE-Pro69.255.4
SWE-Atlas82.5—
Terminal-Bench74.667.9
DeepSWE59.0—
OSWorld83.4—
MCP Atlas82.273.6
Finance Agent53.9—
CharXiv89.9—
ARC-AGI 272.1—
Tau294.496.2
MRCR—83.5
Input Price (per 1M tokens)$5.00$0.43
Output Price (per 1M tokens)$25.0$0.87
Context Window1M1M
Benchmarks Published179

Claude Opus 4.8 vs DeepSeek V4 Pro (Max) head-to-head charts

Claude Opus 4.8 leads 8 and DeepSeek V4 Pro (Max) leads 1 of 9 shared benchmarks. DeepSeek V4 Pro (Max) is cheaper on a defined 1M-input / 200K-output workload. Charts show only benchmarks both models publish.

Claude Opus 4.8DeepSeek V4 Pro (Max)
Overall
80.6Claude Opus 4.8
48.7DeepSeek V4 Pro (Max)
RWT
9.0Claude Opus 4.8
7.0DeepSeek V4 Pro (Max)
HLE
57.9Claude Opus 4.8
37.7DeepSeek V4 Pro (Max)
GPQA
93.6Claude Opus 4.8
90.1DeepSeek V4 Pro (Max)
SWE-bench
88.6Claude Opus 4.8
80.6DeepSeek V4 Pro (Max)
SWE-Pro
69.2Claude Opus 4.8
55.4DeepSeek V4 Pro (Max)
Terminal-Bench
74.6Claude Opus 4.8
67.9DeepSeek V4 Pro (Max)
MCP Atlas
82.2Claude Opus 4.8
73.6DeepSeek V4 Pro (Max)
Tau2
94.4Claude Opus 4.8
96.2DeepSeek V4 Pro (Max)
Claude Opus 4.8
Input$5.00
Output$25.0
Workload$10
Context1M
DeepSeek V4 Pro (Max)
Input$0.43
Output$0.87
Workload$0.61
Context1M

Workload = published cost of 1M input + 200K output tokens. Open the live leaderboard for interactive compare charts.

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How to read this comparison

Benchmark scores

Higher is better for all benchmark scores (SWE-bench, GPQA, HLE, Terminal-Bench, etc.). Green marks the model with the higher score.

Token pricing

Lower is better for input and output prices. Green marks the cheaper model per 1M tokens.

Coverage matters

Models with fewer disclosed benchmark cells may have inflated percentile scores. Check the benchmark cell count for context.

This comparison page is generated from the AskClash LLM leaderboard cache. Open the live leaderboard for real-time scores and interactive filtering.