Comparing 2 models

Claude Opus 4.5 vs DeepSeek V3

Facts first, then task-specific rankings. A highlighted cell is better only for that row, not universally.

metric
Model 1Claude Opus 4.5
Model 2DeepSeek V3
Best for
Agentic Coding (#1)
Best Local LLM for Coding (#2)
Provider
anthropic
deepseek
Context
200KBest
164K
Input / 1M
$5
$0.20Best
Output / 1M
$25
$0.80Best
Tool use
yesBest
yesBest
Vision
yesBest
Reasoning
yesBest
Open-weight
yesBest
Released
Nov 1, 2025
Dec 1, 2024