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Claude Opus 5.5 vs DeepSeek V3.2 Speciale
Side by side · benchmarks, pricing, and signals you can act on.
Winner summary
Claude Opus 5.5 wins on 1/1 benchmarks
Claude Opus 5.5 wins 1 of 1 shared benchmarks. Leads in speed.
Category leads
speed·Claude Opus 5.5
Hype vs Reality
Attention vs performance
Claude Opus 5.5
#3 by perf·#6 by attention
DeepSeek V3.2 Speciale
#6 by perf·no signal
Best value
DeepSeek V3.2 Speciale
14.3x better value than Claude Opus 5.5
Claude Opus 5.5
6.9 pts/$
$12.00/M
DeepSeek V3.2 Speciale
97.8 pts/$
$0.80/M
Vendor risk
Mixed exposure
One or more vendors flagged
Anthropic
$965.0B·Tier 1
DeepSeek
$3.4B·Tier 1
Head to head
1 benchmark · 2 models
Claude Opus 5.5DeepSeek V3.2 Speciale
Artificial Analysis · Quality Index
Claude Opus 5.5 leads by +28.2
Claude Opus 5.5
57.6
DeepSeek V3.2 Speciale
29.4
Full benchmark table
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 5.5 | DeepSeek V3.2 Speciale |
|---|---|---|
Artificial Analysis · Quality Index | 57.6 | 29.4 |
Pricing · per 1M tokens · projected $/mo at 10M tokens
| Model | Input | Output | Context | Projected $/mo |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $4.00 | $20.00 | 1.0M tokens (~500 books) | $80.00 | |
| $0.40 | $1.20 | 164K tokens (~82 books) | $6.00 |