# Claude Opus 4.5 vs DeepSeek-R1-0528

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for Claude Opus 4.5 and DeepSeek-R1-0528 across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/claude-opus-4-5-vs-deepseek-r1-0528
- Last updated: October 14, 2026

- Shared sourced benchmarks: 5
- HTML indexing: indexable
- Ranking lane: BenchAlign v5.8

## Quick Verdict

Pick DeepSeek-R1-0528 if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Claude Opus 4.5 only makes more sense when its price, context window, or workload-specific category wins matter more than the overall score.

## Summary

- DeepSeek-R1-0528 leads overall 60 to 54.12.
- The biggest single benchmark swing is SWE-bench Verified in Coding, with scores of 80.9% and 57.6%.
- Claude Opus 4.5 also has the larger context window at 200K.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | Claude Opus 4.5 | DeepSeek-R1-0528 |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | Anthropic | DeepSeek |
| Type | Proprietary | Open Weight |
| Reasoning | Non-Reasoning | Reasoning |
| Context | 200K | 128K |
| Overall Score | 54.12 | null |
| Benchmarks Covered | 61 | 10 |
| Pricing (input/output) | $5.00 / $25.00 | N/A |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Not comparable
- Claude Opus 4.5 public-lane score: 32.8 (Estimated · #86/124)
- DeepSeek-R1-0528 public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.5 | DeepSeek-R1-0528 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | 59.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| OSWorld-Verified | 66.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| OSWorld | 66.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Claw-Eval | 59.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| QwenClawBench | 52.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| τ³-bench results | 70.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| VITA-Bench | 23.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| DeepPlanning | 26.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Toolathlon | 43.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MCP Atlas | 42.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MCP-Tasks | 71.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| WideResearch | 76.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| CyberGym | 50.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Gert Labs | 64.23% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| JobBench | 32.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Coding

- Winner: Not comparable
- Claude Opus 4.5 public-lane score: 40.4 (Estimated · #63/148)
- DeepSeek-R1-0528 public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.5 | DeepSeek-R1-0528 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| SWE-bench Verified | 80.9% | 57.6% | Claude Opus 4.5 |
| LiveCodeBench v6 | 84.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench Pro | 57.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE Multilingual | 77.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| NL2Repo | 43.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | 59.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| LiveCodeBench | Coming soon | 73.3% | Coming soon |
| Codeforces | Coming soon | 1930.0 | Coming soon |

### Reasoning

- Winner: Not comparable
- Claude Opus 4.5 public-lane score: 78.3 (Unranked · 4 rankable rows)
- DeepSeek-R1-0528 public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.5 | DeepSeek-R1-0528 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| LongBench v2 | 64.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| AI-Needle | 74% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Multimodal & Grounded

- Winner: Not comparable
- Claude Opus 4.5 public-lane score: 48.6 (#49/54)
- DeepSeek-R1-0528 public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.5 | DeepSeek-R1-0528 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MMMU | 80.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MMMU-Pro | 70.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| RealWorldQA | 77.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| OmniDocBench 1.5 | 87.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Video-MME (with subtitle) | 77.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Video-MME (w/o subtitle) | 81.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MathVision | 74.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| We-Math | 70.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| DynaMath | 79.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SimpleVQA | 65.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| CharXiv | 68.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| CountBench | 90.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| AI2D_TEST | 87.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| ERQA | 46.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| VideoMMMU | 84.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MLVU (M-Avg) | 81.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| ScreenSpot Pro | 45.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| V* | 67.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Knowledge

- Winner: Not comparable
- Claude Opus 4.5 public-lane score: 51.1 (Estimated · #74/181)
- DeepSeek-R1-0528 public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.5 | DeepSeek-R1-0528 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| GPQA | 87% | 81% | Claude Opus 4.5 |
| SuperGPQA | 70.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MMLU-Pro | 89.5% | 85% | Claude Opus 4.5 |
| MMLU-Redux | 96.6% | 93.4% | Claude Opus 4.5 |
| C-Eval | 92.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| HLE | 30.8% | 17.7% | Claude Opus 4.5 |
| SimpleQA | Coming soon | 27.8% | Coming soon |

### Multilingual

- Winner: Not comparable
- Claude Opus 4.5 public-lane score: 96.5 (#2/17)
- DeepSeek-R1-0528 public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.5 | DeepSeek-R1-0528 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MMLU-ProX | 85.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| NOVA-63 | 56.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| INCLUDE | 86.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| PolyMath | 79.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MAXIFE | 79.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Not comparable
- Claude Opus 4.5 public-lane score: 31.9 (#116/128)
- DeepSeek-R1-0528 public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.5 | DeepSeek-R1-0528 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| IFEval | 90.9% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| IFBench | 58% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Mathematics

- Winner: Not comparable
- Claude Opus 4.5 public-lane score: 61.3 (#9/12)
- DeepSeek-R1-0528 public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.5 | DeepSeek-R1-0528 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| AIME26 | 95.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| HMMT Feb 2025 | 92.9% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| HMMT Nov 2025 | 93.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| HMMT Feb 2026 | 85.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MMAnswerBench | 84.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| FrontierMath v2 (Tiers 1-3) | 34.386% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| FrontierMath v2 (Tier 4) | 4.878% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| AIME 2024 | Coming soon | 91.4% | Coming soon |
| AIME 2025 | Coming soon | 87.5% | Coming soon |

## FAQ

### Which is better overall, Claude Opus 4.5 or DeepSeek-R1-0528?

DeepSeek-R1-0528 is ahead overall on BenchLM right now.

### How many benchmarks does Claude Opus 4.5 cover on BenchLM?

Claude Opus 4.5 currently has 61 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

### How many benchmarks does DeepSeek-R1-0528 cover on BenchLM?

DeepSeek-R1-0528 currently has 10 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

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