Agentic
Directional only- Claude Opus 4.6
- 73.0
- DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813
- 74.5
- Weighted basis
- 3 vs 2 rows
- Reading
- Directional only
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Start free briefUpdated August 13, 2026. Public scores include evidence status and uncertainty. They are not guarantees for a specific workload.
Decision reading
Claude Opus 4.6 has the higher public score estimate, 67.73 versus 60.93, but the 90% score intervals overlap. Treat that as a lead, not a settled winner.
10 results are shared. Category rows based on different benchmark sets are marked directional and do not name a winner.
Recommendations appear only when a shared evidence basis or an explicit operating constraint supports the call. Secondary and unsupported use cases stay disclosed below the initial list.
1K fresh input + 500 output tokens
DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813
DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 has the lower estimated token cost for this stated workload. Costs use the listed standard API rates.
Confidence: listed-rates
200K cached + 20K fresh input + 10K output tokens
DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813
DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 has the lower estimated token cost for this stated workload. Claude Opus 4.6 has no published cached-input rate, so cached tokens use its listed input rate.
Confidence: rate-fallback
50K fresh input + 3K output tokens
DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813
DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 has the lower estimated token cost for this stated workload. Costs use the listed standard API rates.
Confidence: listed-rates
Code generation, repair, and software-engineering tasks
Not enough matched evidence
The category averages use different weighted benchmark sets, so they are directional rather than like-for-like.
Confidence: limited
Tool use, computer use, and multi-step task completion
Not enough matched evidence
The category averages use different weighted benchmark sets, so they are directional rather than like-for-like.
Confidence: limited
Prompts that approach the documented context limit
No clear pick
The documented context windows are equal.
Confidence: documented
Shared results can support a head-to-head reading. Results present for only one model describe coverage, not superiority.
3 categories use different evidence sets. Those rows remain visible for coverage context but do not name a winner.
Each row states whether both averages use the same weighted benchmark set. Directional and not-comparable rows remain visible, but they never receive a winner in this template.
| Category | Claude Opus 4.6 | DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 | Weighted basis | Reading |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Agentic | 73.0 | 74.5 | Directional only3 vs 2 rows | Directional only |
| Coding | 68.1 | 70.9 | Directional only3 vs 2 rows | Directional only |
| Knowledge | 69.1 | 62.5 | Directional only4 vs 4 rows | Directional only |
| Reasoning | Not measured | Not measured | Not comparable0 vs 0 rows | Not comparable |
| Math | 36.3 | 95.2 | Not comparable2 vs 1 rows | Not comparable |
| Multilingual | Not measured | Not measured | Not comparable0 vs 0 rows | Not comparable |
| Multimodal | 77.3 | Not measured | Not comparable1 vs 0 rows | Not comparable |
| Instruction following | Not measured | Not measured | Not comparable0 vs 0 rows | Not comparable |
Only shared public evidence is shown. Sparse evidence stays a ruled list rather than being closed into a radar shape.
Too few matched category axes support a radar. The ruled list below shows only shared benchmark results; positions use each benchmark’s normalized display scale when available.
HLE
Knowledge
MMLU-Pro
Knowledge
Terminal-Bench 2.0
Agentic
SWE-bench Pro
Coding
GPQA
Knowledge
Three fixed token mixes turn per-token rates into comparable decisions. Each scenario states context fit and whether cached input had to fall back to the published list-input rate.
1K fresh input + 500 output tokens
DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 has the lower modeled cost
Costs use the listed standard API rates.
50K fresh input + 3K output tokens
DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 has the lower modeled cost
Costs use the listed standard API rates.
200K cached + 20K fresh input + 10K output tokens
DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 has the lower modeled cost
Claude Opus 4.6 has no published cached-input rate, so cached tokens use its listed input rate.
Sourced differences are shown directly. Missing facts stay explicit instead of being inferred from a model name or family.
Maximum documented context; output-token limits may be lower.
Claude Opus 4.6
1M
DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813
Claude Opus 4.6
Not sourced
DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813
deepseek-v4-pro
DeepSeek models and pricingA missing cached-input rate falls back to the listed input rate only in the stated workload estimate.
Claude Opus 4.6
Not published
DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813
$0.003625 per 1M cached input tokens
Claude Opus 4.6
Not sourced
DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813
Claude Opus 4.6
Not sourced
DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813
Claude Opus 4.6
Not sourced
DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813
Generally Available · DeepSeek API
DeepSeek models and pricingClaude Opus 4.6
Non-Reasoning
DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813
Reasoning
Claude Opus 4.6
Proprietary
DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813
Proprietary
Claude Opus 4.6
Proprietary
DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813
Proprietary
Claude Opus 4.6
2026-02-01
DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813
2026-08-13
Run the same representative tasks against both endpoints before changing production traffic.
The full public result ledger is available for audit without forcing a wide desktop table onto a phone.
Terminal-Bench 2.0
DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 leads this result
BrowseComp
Claude Opus 4.6 leads this result
OSWorld-Verified
Not directly comparable
Claw-Eval
Not directly comparable
DeepSearchQA
Not directly comparable
CyberGym
DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 leads this result
Gert Labs
Not directly comparable
ResearchClawBench
Not directly comparable
JobBench
Not directly comparable
Terminal-Bench 2.1
Not directly comparable
HLE w/ tools
Not directly comparable
MCP Atlas
Not directly comparable
Toolathlon
Not directly comparable
Toolathlon-Verified
Not directly comparable
Agents' Last Exam
Not directly comparable
AutomationBench
Not directly comparable
SWE-bench Verified
Claude Opus 4.6 leads this result
SWE-bench Verified*
Not directly comparable
LiveCodeBench Pro
Not directly comparable
SWE-bench Pro
DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 leads this result
SWE-Rebench
Not directly comparable
React Native Evals
Not directly comparable
Vibe Code Bench
Shared sourceClaude Opus 4.6 leads this result
FrontierCode 1.1 Main
Not directly comparable
LiveCodeBench Pass@1-COT
Not directly comparable
Codeforces
Not directly comparable
SWE Multilingual
Not directly comparable
Terminal-Bench 2.0
Not directly comparable
Terminal-Bench 2.1
Not directly comparable
NL2Repo
Not directly comparable
deepSwe
Not directly comparable
DSBench-FullStack
Not directly comparable
DSBench-Hard
Not directly comparable
GPQA
Claude Opus 4.6 leads this result
GPQA-D
DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 leads this result
SuperGPQA
Not directly comparable
MMLU-Pro
DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 leads this result
MMLU-Pro (Arcee)
Not directly comparable
HLE
Claude Opus 4.6 leads this result
HLE w/o tools
Not directly comparable
HealthBench Hard
Not directly comparable
MedXpertQA (Text)
Not directly comparable
SimpleQA
Not directly comparable
Chinese-SimpleQA
Not directly comparable
AIME25 (Arcee)
Not directly comparable
FrontierMath v2 (Tiers 1-3)
Not directly comparable
FrontierMath v2 (Tier 4)
Not directly comparable
HMMT Feb 2026
Not directly comparable
IMOAnswerBench
Not directly comparable
Apex
Not directly comparable
Apex Shortlist
Not directly comparable
MMMU-Pro
Not directly comparable
ERQA
Not directly comparable
ScreenSpot Pro
Not directly comparable
MedXpertQA (MM)
Not directly comparable
Claude Opus 4.6 has the higher public score estimate, 67.73 versus 60.93, but the 90% score intervals overlap. The higher estimate is not a decisive winner because the uncertainty ranges overlap.
The current coding averages use different weighted benchmark sets, so BenchLM does not name a winner from them. Read the shared benchmark rows directly and test the models on the same task set.
The current agentic tasks averages use different weighted benchmark sets, so BenchLM does not name a winner from them. Read the shared benchmark rows directly and test the models on the same task set.
For the stated presets, chat costs $0.0175 on Claude Opus 4.6 and $0.00087 on DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813; repository review costs $0.325 and $0.02436; the cache-heavy agent loop costs $1.35 and $0.01812. Claude Opus 4.6 has no published cached-input rate, so cached tokens use its listed input rate.
Both models list the same context window, 1M.
Last updated August 13, 2026
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