Deepgram FluxvsClaude Opus 5
Deepgram Flux leads the overall Podium Score by 5.1 points (86.5 vs 81.4).Category wins: Deepgram Flux 1 — 3 Claude Opus 5.Deepgram Flux is the cheaper pick ($0.015/M vs $25/M per 1M output tokens). Deepgram Flux is faster (260 t/s vs 60 t/s).
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Quick VerdictAggregated 2026 Benchmark Analysis
Deepgram Flux is rated higher overall with a Podium Score of 86.5 (vs 81.4 for Claude Opus 5). In head-to-head domain evaluations, Claude Opus 5 outperforms in 3 of 7 benchmark categories.
Coding & Engineering
Claude Opus 5 (70.4)
Inference Speed
Deepgram Flux (260 t/s)
Cost Efficiency
Deepgram Flux ($0.015/M)
API Price / 1M (in · out)
Deepgram Flux $0.007/M · $0.015/M — Claude Opus 5 $5/M · $25/M
Choose Deepgram Flux for knowledge and factual QA, and Claude Opus 5 for long documents and large codebases.
| Metric | Deepgram Flux | Claude Opus 5 |
|---|---|---|
| Podium Score | 86.5 ▲ | 81.4 |
| Arena Elo | 1380 | 1492 ▲ |
| Intelligence Index | 86.0 ▲ | 61.0 |
| Coding | 0.0 | 70.4 ▲ |
| Math | 0.0 | — |
| Reasoning | 25.0 | 82.3 ▲ |
| Agentic | 72.0 | — |
| Knowledge | 45.0 ▲ | 37.1 |
| Multimodal | 92.5 | — |
| Long-context | 45.0 | 99.2 ▲ |
| Output speed | 260 t/s ▲ | 60 t/s |
| Output price | $0.015/M ▲ | $25/M |
| Context window | 64K | 1000K ▲ |
Scores aggregated from five independent leaderboards. See Methodology. More head-to-heads: Deepgram Flux vs Claude Mythos · Deepgram Flux vs Claude 5.5 Sonnet · Deepgram Flux vs Kimi K3.1 Pro · Deepgram Flux vs Eleven Multilingual v3