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DeepSeek V4 Flash (high), Terminus-2 vs. Claude Opus 5.5 (low), Claude Code

DeepSeek V4 Flash (high), Terminus-2 against Claude Opus 5.5 (low), Claude Code: Geospatial Agent Index, each evaluation, cost, time and tokens, on the same tasks and limits. The harnesses differ, so part of any gap can come from the harness. Methodology.

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DeepSeek V4 Flash (high), Terminus-2 vs. Claude Opus 5.5 (low), Claude Code
MetricDeepSeek V4 Flash (high), Terminus-2Claude Opus 5.5 (low), Claude Code
Geospatial Agent Index: Text only7274
Geospatial Agent Index: Text + visionNo image input78
Earth-Bench V2 score7259
GeoBenchX score6577
GS-QA2 score7986
Vision agents scoreNo image input89
GeoAgentBench score (Guided workflows; not in the Agent Index)9496
GeoAnalystBench score (Guided workflows; not in the Agent Index)89100
OGD4All score (standalone; in no index)No data95
GeoNatureAgent score (standalone; in no index)No data100
MultiGlobeQA score (standalone; in no index)No data79
GeoAgentEval score (standalone; in no index)No data100
Remote sensing and raster analysis score7879
GIS analysis score7784
Climate and time series score7359
Spatial statistics score3877
Making maps score7577
Recognising infeasible requests score5877
Cost per task$0.065$0.081
Time per task (at 100 output tokens/s)5.9 min0.4 min
Tokens per attempt341k63k
Turns per attempt15.63.5
Input price per 1M tokens$0.44$4.00
Output price per 1M tokens$1.32$20.00
Context window1,048,5761,000,000
Image inputNoYes
DeveloperDeepSeekAnthropic

Charts

Geospatial Agent Index

Equal average of Earth-Bench V2, GeoBenchX and GS-QA2, 0 to 100 · Higher is better

Geospatial Agent IndexScores 0 to 100: Claude Opus 5.5 (low), Claude Code: 74; DeepSeek V4 Flash (high), Terminus-2: 72025507510074Claude Opus 5.5 (low)72DeepSeek V4 Flash (high)
Data table: Geospatial Agent Index
Geospatial Agent Index
ModelDeveloperGeospatial Agent Index
Claude Opus 5.5 (low), Claude CodeAnthropic74
DeepSeek V4 Flash (high), Terminus-2DeepSeek72

Cost per task

Average cost per task (USD) · Lower is better

Cost per taskCost per task in US dollars: DeepSeek V4 Flash (high), Terminus-2: $0.065; Claude Opus 5.5 (low), Claude Code: $0.081$0$0.025$0.05$0.075$0.10$0.065DeepSeek V4 Flash (high)$0.081Claude Opus 5.5 (low)
Data table: Cost per task
Cost per task
ModelDeveloperCost per task
DeepSeek V4 Flash (high), Terminus-2DeepSeek$0.065
Claude Opus 5.5 (low), Claude CodeAnthropic$0.081

Output tokens per task

Average output tokens per attempt, reasoning included · Lower is better

Output tokens per taskOutput tokens per task: Claude Opus 5.5 (low), Claude Code: 1k; DeepSeek V4 Flash (high), Terminus-2: 31k010k20k30k40k1kClaude Opus 5.5 (low)31kDeepSeek V4 Flash (high)
Data table: Output tokens per task
Output tokens per task
ModelDeveloperOutput tokens per task
Claude Opus 5.5 (low), Claude CodeAnthropic1k
DeepSeek V4 Flash (high), Terminus-2DeepSeek31k

Frequently asked questions

Which scores higher on the Geospatial Agent Index, DeepSeek V4 Flash (high), Terminus-2 or Claude Opus 5.5 (low), Claude Code?
Claude Opus 5.5 (low), Claude Code, 74 to 72.
Which is cheaper per task, DeepSeek V4 Flash (high), Terminus-2 or Claude Opus 5.5 (low), Claude Code?
DeepSeek V4 Flash (high), Terminus-2, $0.065 to $0.081.
Which writes fewer output tokens per task, DeepSeek V4 Flash (high), Terminus-2 or Claude Opus 5.5 (low), Claude Code?
Claude Opus 5.5 (low), Claude Code, 1k to 31k.
Which has the larger context window, DeepSeek V4 Flash (high), Terminus-2 or Claude Opus 5.5 (low), Claude Code?
DeepSeek V4 Flash (high), Terminus-2, 1,048,576 tokens to 1,000,000 tokens.

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