Claude Opus 4 1 20250805vsDeepseek V4 Flash High Preview

Claude Opus 4 1 20250805 is tied with Deepseek V4 Flash High Preview on the Podium Score (72.0).Category wins: Claude Opus 4 1 20250805 0 — 0 Deepseek V4 Flash High Preview.Deepseek V4 Flash High Preview is the cheaper pick ($1.1/M vs $15/M per 1M output tokens). Claude Opus 4 1 20250805 is faster (50 t/s vs 50 t/s).

Key VerdictAggregated 2026 Benchmark Analysis

Claude Opus 4 1 20250805 is rated higher overall with a Podium Score of 72.0 (vs 72.0 for Deepseek V4 Flash High Preview). Both models show closely matched capabilities across domain benchmarks.

Coding & Engineering
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Inference Speed
Claude Opus 4 1 20250805 (50 t/s)
Cost Efficiency
Deepseek V4 Flash High Preview ($1.1/M/M)
MetricClaude Opus 4 1 20250805Deepseek V4 Flash High Preview
Podium Score72.072.0
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Long-context
Output speed50 t/s50 t/s
Output price$15/M$1.1/M ▲
Context window128K128K
Scores aggregated from five independent leaderboards. See Methodology. More head-to-heads: Claude Opus 4 1 vs Claude Mythos · Claude Opus 4 1 vs Claude Fable 5 · Claude Opus 4 1 vs Kimi K3 · Claude Opus 4 1 vs Claude Opus 5
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