# Claude Opus 5 vs DeepSeek V4.1 Flash

As of Oct 15, 2026, Claude Opus 5 leads DeepSeek V4.1 Flash in 8 of 8 shared categories: General LLM, Reasoning, Science, Coding › Web dev, Long context, Vision, Factuality, and Abstraction (ARC).

Claude Opus 5: $10 per 1M blended tokens.

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash: $0.23463 per 1M blended tokens.

Claude Opus 5: closed weights.

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash: open weights.

- Which to pick, General LLM: As of Oct 15, 2026, Claude Opus 5 leads DeepSeek V4.1 Flash in General LLM at #11 against #29.
- Which to pick, Reasoning: As of Oct 15, 2026, Claude Opus 5 leads DeepSeek V4.1 Flash in Reasoning at #9 against #27.
- Which to pick, Science: As of Oct 15, 2026, Claude Opus 5 leads DeepSeek V4.1 Flash in Science at #12 against #36.
- Which to pick, Coding › Web dev: As of Oct 15, 2026, Claude Opus 5 leads DeepSeek V4.1 Flash in Coding › Web dev at #6 against #19.
- Which to pick, Long context: As of Oct 15, 2026, Claude Opus 5 leads DeepSeek V4.1 Flash in Long context at #9 against #32.
- Which to pick, Vision: As of Oct 15, 2026, Claude Opus 5 leads DeepSeek V4.1 Flash in Vision at #12 against #21.
- Which to pick, Factuality: As of Oct 15, 2026, Claude Opus 5 leads DeepSeek V4.1 Flash in Factuality at #4 against #22.
- Which to pick, Abstraction (ARC): As of Oct 15, 2026, Claude Opus 5 leads DeepSeek V4.1 Flash in Abstraction (ARC) at #3 against #8.

As of Oct 15, 2026, Claude Opus 5 is near state of the art, rank #4 in Factuality (since Oct 15, 2026; sources LMArena Text factuality; methodology v1.0).

As of Oct 15, 2026, DeepSeek V4.1 Flash is state of the art on best per dollar in General LLM (since Oct 14, 2026; sources LMArena Text (style-controlled, overall); methodology v1.0).