Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Claude Opus 4 offers 69.4K more tokens in context window than DeepSeek VL2. Claude Opus 4 is $4719.50 cheaper per million tokens. Claude Opus 4 is available on 4 providers. Both models have their strengths depending on your specific coding needs.
Anthropic
Claude Opus 4 was developed as the flagship model in the Claude 4 generation, designed to push the boundaries of AI capability in complex reasoning, analysis, and multi-step problem-solving. Built to handle the most demanding enterprise tasks, it represents Anthropic's highest tier of intelligence and capability.
DeepSeek
DeepSeek-VL2 was developed as a vision-language model, designed to handle both visual and textual inputs for multimodal understanding tasks. Built to extend DeepSeek's capabilities beyond text-only processing, it enables applications requiring integrated analysis of images and language.
5 months newer

DeepSeek VL2
DeepSeek
2024-12-13

Claude Opus 4
Anthropic
2025-05-22
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Claude Opus 4

DeepSeek VL2
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Available providers and their performance metrics

Claude Opus 4
Anthropic
Bedrock
ZeroEval

Claude Opus 4

DeepSeek VL2

Claude Opus 4

DeepSeek VL2

DeepSeek VL2
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