Claude Opus 5.5vsDeepSeek V4 Pro

How Claude Opus 5.5 (Anthropic) and DeepSeek V4 Pro (DeepSeek) rank the 25 lists both answered, measured by how much their lists overlap, weighted toward the top.

Agreement
71%Panel average for a pair: 70%
Among all 45 pairs
19thmost alike
Lists compared
25answered by both
Same #1 pick
12of 25 lists

Agreement by list

Overlap between their two lists, weighted toward the top · 100% means identical · Bars take the list's category color · The black tick marks the panel's average for that list

  1. Greatest US presidents95%
  2. Greatest NBA players94%
  3. Greatest scientists90%
  4. Greatest soccer players87%
  5. Greatest TV shows87%
  6. Best US cities for a 30-year-old engineer87%
  7. Best pizza toppings86%
  8. Hardest sports to master84%
  9. Best national cuisines84%
  10. Greatest science-fiction films84%
  11. Best national parks in the United States78%
  12. Best first programming language77%
  13. Best science-fiction novels of the 2010s69%
  14. Best cities in the world to visit67%
  15. Greatest video game consoles67%
  16. Greatest albums65%
  17. Greatest entrepreneurs65%
  18. Most influential philosophers63%
  19. Greatest board games56%
  20. Greatest novels55%
  21. Most important inventions51%
  22. Most influential companies51%
  23. Most important scientific discoveries49%
  24. Greatest video games39%
  25. Most influential people of the 21st century36%

Where they split hardest

Each model's top 3 on the lists where the two overlap least

Greatest video games

Culture · 39% agreement

Claude Opus 5.5

  1. 1The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
  2. 2Super Mario 64
  3. 3Tetris

DeepSeek V4 Pro

  1. 1The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
  2. 2Tetris
  3. 3Dark Souls

Most important scientific discoveries

Science · 49% agreement

Claude Opus 5.5

  1. 1Natural selection
  2. 2Universal gravitation
  3. 3Atomic theory

DeepSeek V4 Pro

  1. 1Natural selection
  2. 2Cell theory
  3. 3Germ theory of disease

Only Claude Opus 5.5

Picks Claude Opus 5.5 made that DeepSeek V4 Pro left off the same list · 50 in all, top 10 shown · Highest-ranked first

Only DeepSeek V4 Pro

Picks DeepSeek V4 Pro made that Claude Opus 5.5 left off the same list · 50 in all, top 10 shown · Highest-ranked first

Biggest rank gaps

Picks both listed, at the most different positions · Top 10 · Positions for Claude Opus 5.5 first, then DeepSeek V4 Pro

  1. Barack ObamaMost influential people of the 21st century#8#1
  2. General ElectricMost influential companies#10#3
  3. Nintendo Entertainment SystemGreatest video game consoles#3#10
  4. BaseballHardest sports to master#5#12
  5. Madame BovaryGreatest novels#10#4
  6. Xi JinpingMost influential people of the 21st century#1#6
  7. Moby-DickGreatest novels#7#2
  8. Vladimir PutinMost influential people of the 21st century#2#7
  9. In Search of Lost TimeGreatest novels#3#8
  10. Karl MarxMost influential philosophers#5#10