Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Claude Opus 4.5 leads with 4.4% higher average benchmark score. Claude Opus 4.5 is available on 3 providers. Both models have their strengths depending on your specific coding needs.
Anthropic
Claude Opus 4.5, released by Anthropic in November 2025, is a large language model from the Claude 4.5 family built for demanding reasoning tasks, advanced code generation, and complex agentic workflows. It features a 200K token context window, 64K maximum output tokens, native image understanding, and extended thinking with configurable effort levels. Opus 4.5 targets deep analytical work, multi-step tool orchestration, and applications requiring sustained reasoning across long, complex tasks.
ByteDance
Seed-1.8, developed by ByteDance Seed, is a generalized agentic large language model supporting text and image input, with industry-leading GUI agent capabilities and improvements in multimodal reasoning over its predecessor Seed1.5-VL. It targets information retrieval, code generation, GUI interaction, and complex agentic workflows requiring robust multimodal understanding.
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Claude Opus 4.5
Anthropic
2025-11-01
Seed-1.8
ByteDance
2025-12-18
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 1 common benchmarks
Claude Opus 4.5
Seed-1.8
Performance comparison across key benchmark categories
Claude Opus 4.5
Seed-1.8
Claude Opus 4.5
2025-05
Available providers and their performance metrics
Claude Opus 4.5
Anthropic
AWS Bedrock
Google Cloud Vertex AI
Seed-1.8
Claude Opus 4.5
Seed-1.8
Claude Opus 4.5
Seed-1.8