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Claude Opus 4.6 vs DeepSeek V3.2 Speciale vs GPT-5 Chat
Side by side · benchmarks, pricing, and signals you can act on.
Winner summary
Claude Opus 4.6 wins on 1/1 benchmarks
Claude Opus 4.6 wins 1 of 1 shared benchmarks. Leads in arena.
Category leads
arena·Claude Opus 4.6
Hype vs Reality
Attention vs performance
Claude Opus 4.6
#136 by perf·#9 by attention
DeepSeek V3.2 Speciale
#6 by perf·no signal
GPT-5 Chat
#4 by perf·#4 by attention
Best value
DeepSeek V3.2 Speciale
6.7x better value than GPT-5 Chat
Claude Opus 4.6
3.2 pts/$
$15.00/M
DeepSeek V3.2 Speciale
97.8 pts/$
$0.80/M
GPT-5 Chat
14.6 pts/$
$5.63/M
Vendor risk
Mixed exposure
One or more vendors flagged
Anthropic
$965.0B·Tier 1
DeepSeek
$3.4B·Tier 1
OpenAI
$840.0B·Tier 1
Head to head
1 benchmark · 3 models
Claude Opus 4.6DeepSeek V3.2 SpecialeGPT-5 Chat
Chatbot Arena Elo · Overall
Claude Opus 4.6 leads by +70.7
Claude Opus 4.6
1497.3
GPT-5 Chat
1426.6
Full benchmark table
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.6 | DeepSeek V3.2 Speciale | GPT-5 Chat |
|---|---|---|---|
Chatbot Arena Elo · Overall | 1497.3 | — | 1426.6 |
Pricing · per 1M tokens · projected $/mo at 10M tokens
| Model | Input | Output | Context | Projected $/mo |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $5.00 | $25.00 | 1.0M tokens (~500 books) | $100.00 | |
| $0.40 | $1.20 | 164K tokens (~82 books) | $6.00 | |
| $1.25 | $10.00 | 128K tokens (~64 books) | $34.38 |