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Deepseek V4 Flash outperforms Claude Opus 4.8 on SlopCodeBench

A user on Reddit's r/LocalLLaMA subreddit shared results from running the Deepseek V4 Flash model on the SlopCodeBench benchmark. The user compared its performance to Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.8 and an unreleased Claude Opus 5, indicating that Deepseek V4 Flash performed better than Claude Opus 4.8 but was surpassed by Claude Opus 5. The benchmark results were posted on GitHub, with the user expressing interest in re-running the tests on their MacBook once the Q2 models are available. AI

IMPACT Provides a comparative performance metric for coding tasks, indicating Deepseek V4 Flash's capabilities relative to Anthropic's models.

RANK_REASON User-generated benchmark results comparing LLM performance on a coding task. [lever_c_demoted from research: ic=1 ai=1.0]

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Deepseek V4 Flash outperforms Claude Opus 4.8 on SlopCodeBench

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  1. r/LocalLLaMA TIER_1 Nederlands(NL) · /u/corruptbytes ·

    Deepseek V4 Flash on SlopCodeBench

    <!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>While waiting for some of the quants to drop, I load the API with $50 and ran it on SlopCodeBench</p> <p>Just vibe reading the results it seems like Opus 4.8 &lt; Deepseek &lt; Opus 5</p> <p><a href="https://github.com/michaelasper/benchmarks/blo…