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Claude Opus 4.5 vs DeepSeek Coder

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Anthropic
Claude Opus 4.5
DeepSeek
DeepSeek Coder
Overview
CompanyAnthropicDeepSeek
Release dateNov 24 2025Nov 2 2023
Model type
Open sourceNoYes
Specifications
Parameters
Context window
Benchmarks
Science reasoning
GPQA Diamond
87%
Software engineering
SWE-Bench Verified
80.9%
Multimodal understanding
MMMU
Timeline
Release gapDeepSeek Coder shipped 753 days before Claude Opus 4.5

Which is better: Claude Opus 4.5 or DeepSeek Coder?

Claude Opus 4.5 leads DeepSeek Coder on 2 of the tracked benchmarks (GPQA Diamond, SWE-Bench Verified, MMMU). DeepSeek Coder shipped 753 days before Claude Opus 4.5, so benchmark comparisons should account for the intervening progress.

DeepSeek Coder is an open-source / open-weight model; Claude Opus 4.5 is proprietary.

Direct benchmark comparisons are unavailable — at least one of these models has not published scores on GPQA Diamond, SWE-Bench Verified, or MMMU.

Frequently asked questions

When was Claude Opus 4.5 released?
Claude Opus 4.5 was released by Anthropic on Nov 24 2025.
When was DeepSeek Coder released?
DeepSeek Coder was released by DeepSeek on Nov 2 2023.
Is Claude Opus 4.5 or DeepSeek Coder open source?
DeepSeek Coder is an open-source / open-weight model released by DeepSeek. Claude Opus 4.5 is a proprietary model released by Anthropic.

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