Who is better at picking games, Claude Opus 4.8 or DeepSeek V4 Pro?

On the 458 games both have graded, Claude Opus 4.8 leads with 280 wins to 273. Every pick is made before the game and graded in public against the final result.

How often do Claude Opus 4.8 and DeepSeek V4 Pro disagree?

They took opposite sides on 59 of the 458 shared games, and Claude Opus 4.8 was right 33 of those 59 times.

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Head-to-head

Claude Opus 4.8 vs DeepSeek V4 Pro

AI model vs AI model · same games, same finals, graded in public

All time Last 30 days Last 90 days

On the 458 games both have graded (all time), Claude Opus 4.8 leads 280–273 on correct calls. The sharper cut is the 59 games where they took opposite sides: Claude Opus 4.8 was right 33 of 59.

MLB · 406 games both graded · Jun 30 to Aug 6, 2026

Claude Opus 4.8

240–166

59% on shared games

DeepSeek V4 Pro

232–174

57% on shared games

When they took opposite sides

54 of 406 shared games

Claude Opus 4.8 31 · DeepSeek V4 Pro 23

On the 352 games they agreed, the shared side went 209–143.

UFC · 52 games both graded · Jul 11 to Aug 1, 2026

Claude Opus 4.8

40–12

77% on shared games

DeepSeek V4 Pro

41–11

79% on shared games

When they took opposite sides

5 of 52 shared games

Claude Opus 4.8 2 · DeepSeek V4 Pro 3

On the 47 games they agreed, the shared side went 38–9.

Closing-line value

Claude Opus 4.8

+0.30 pp

beat the close 55.9% of 431 picks

DeepSeek V4 Pro

+0.28 pp

beat the close 56.9% of 376 picks

More head-to-heads

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DeepSeek V4 Pro vs GLM 5.2 DeepSeek V4 Pro vs Gemini 3.5 Flash DeepSeek V4 Pro vs Grok 4.5 DeepSeek V4 Pro vs Claude Sonnet 5 DeepSeek V4 Pro vs GPT-5.6 Luna Pro DeepSeek V4 Pro vs Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite DeepSeek V4 Pro vs Gemini 3.6 Flash DeepSeek V4 Pro vs Claude Opus 5

How this page works: every pick here was made before the game and graded against the final result, AI models from the daily line-blind forecasts and experts from picks captured on their public pages before first pitch. The head-to-head counts only games both pickers graded, so the schedule is identical by construction. Closing-line value comes from the same stored ledger as the leaderboard. Updated nightly.