Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Claude Opus 4.6 offers 192.0K more tokens in context window than DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale. DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale is $28.63 cheaper per million tokens. Claude Opus 4.6 supports multimodal inputs. Claude Opus 4.6 is available on 3 providers. Both models have their strengths depending on your specific coding needs.
Anthropic
Claude Opus 4.6, released by Anthropic in February 2026, is a large language model from the Claude 4 family designed for complex agent orchestration, extended reasoning, and long-form code generation. It features a 200K token context window (extendable to 1M tokens in beta), 128K maximum output tokens, native image understanding, and extended thinking with both standard and adaptive effort modes. Opus 4.6 targets multi-step agentic workflows, parallel tool use, and applications requiring sustained reasoning over large contexts.
DeepSeek
DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale is a high-compute variant of DeepSeek-V3.2 with 685 billion total parameters, made available for a limited period in December 2025. It was released without tool-calling support but demonstrated exceptional reasoning performance, achieving gold-medal results in the 2025 IMO and IOI competitions. DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale targets research and benchmarking use cases requiring maximum reasoning capability under an MIT license.
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DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale
DeepSeek
2025-12

Claude Opus 4.6
Anthropic
2026-02
Cost per million tokens (USD)
Claude Opus 4.6
DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale
Context window and performance specifications
Claude Opus 4.6
2025-05
Available providers and their performance metrics
Claude Opus 4.6
Anthropic
AWS Bedrock
Google Cloud Vertex AI
DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale
Claude Opus 4.6
DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale
Claude Opus 4.6
DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale
DeepSeek