Model comparison
Claude Opus 5.5 vs DeepSeek Coder 33B
Claude Opus 5.5 has enough public results to be ranked (#3); DeepSeek Coder 33B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.
Last verified . 0 shared benchmarks.
DeepSeekSummary
- The widest gap is in coding, where Claude Opus 5.5 leads 71.4 to 37.4.
- DeepSeek Coder 33B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Claude Opus 5.5 | DeepSeek Coder 33B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | DeepSeek |
| Noometry Index | 68.5 | 38.3 |
| Released | 2026-09-22 | 2023-11-02 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | 1M | — |
| Max output | 128K | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | $4 | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | $20 | — |
| Results tracked | 35 | 9 |
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Category by category
Coding Claude Opus 5.5 leads
Claude Opus 5.5: 71.4 (#1), DeepSeek Coder 33B: 37.4 (#180)
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 5.5 | DeepSeek Coder 33B |
|---|---|---|
| FrontierCode | 54.4% | — |
| CursorBench | 57.8% | — |
| LMArena WebDev | 1820 | — |
| FrontierSWE | 62.3% | — |
| SciCode | 66.9% | — |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 42% |
| LMArena Coding | 1545 | — |
| MirrorCode | 77.4% | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 51.1% |
| HumanEval+ | — | 75% |
| MBPP+ | — | 70.1% |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Claude Opus 5.5: 45.3 (#13), DeepSeek Coder 33B: —
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 5.5 | DeepSeek Coder 33B |
|---|---|---|
| APEX-Agents | 73.5% | — |
| GDP.pdf | 30.6% | — |
Reasoning Not comparable
Claude Opus 5.5: 79.5 (#2), DeepSeek Coder 33B: —
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 5.5 | DeepSeek Coder 33B |
|---|---|---|
| ARC-AGI-2 | 92.5% | — |
| NYT Connections (extended) | 88.5% | — |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 97.5% | — |
| CritPt | 31.7% | — |
| EBR-Bench | 71.4% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1545 | — |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | 71% | — |
| DTBench | 98.9% | — |
| LMCA | 68.2% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 95.74 |
| WinoGrande | — | 62% |
Math Not comparable
Claude Opus 5.5: 92.4 (#2), DeepSeek Coder 33B: —
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 5.5 | DeepSeek Coder 33B |
|---|---|---|
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | 91.2% | — |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 | 95% | — |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 100% | — |
| ProofBench | 100% | — |
| GSM8K | — | 35.4% |
Knowledge Not comparable
Claude Opus 5.5: 66.6 (#9), DeepSeek Coder 33B: —
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 5.5 | DeepSeek Coder 33B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 90.6% | — |
| SimpleQA Verified | 72.2% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1564 | — |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | — | 42.2% |
| MMLU | — | 39.4% |
Multimodal Not comparable
Claude Opus 5.5: 56.5 (#2), DeepSeek Coder 33B: —
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 5.5 | DeepSeek Coder 33B |
|---|---|---|
| Furniture Assembly | 83.3% | — |
Multilingual Not comparable
Claude Opus 5.5: 59.8 (#1), DeepSeek Coder 33B: —
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 5.5 | DeepSeek Coder 33B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1513 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1572 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1532 | — |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Claude Opus 5.5: 80.1 (#2), DeepSeek Coder 33B: —
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 5.5 | DeepSeek Coder 33B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1535 | — |
Long Context Not comparable
Claude Opus 5.5: 47.3 (#18), DeepSeek Coder 33B: —
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 5.5 | DeepSeek Coder 33B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1540 | — |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Claude Opus 5.5: 78.7 (#3), DeepSeek Coder 33B: —
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 5.5 | DeepSeek Coder 33B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1518 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1538 | — |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 2050 | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1520 | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Claude Opus 5.5 better than DeepSeek Coder 33B?
Claude Opus 5.5 has enough public results to be ranked (#3); DeepSeek Coder 33B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.
Is Claude Opus 5.5 or DeepSeek Coder 33B better for coding?
Claude Opus 5.5 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 71.4 versus 37.4 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Claude Opus 5.5 and DeepSeek Coder 33B share?
0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Opus 5.5 has 35 scored results on Noometry and DeepSeek Coder 33B has 9.