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Claude Opus 5.5Anthropic · reasoning mediumDeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017DeepSeek · reasoning medium
38.54th of 12Crusader Bench ScoreMean of the map scores30.08th of 12
Claude Opus 5.5 scores 8.5 higher over every map, 38.5 to 30.0, and on every map.
Each Map
35.37th of 1227.210th of 12
43.14th of 1239.65th of 12
37.05th of 1223.311th of 12
Score Breakdown
38%Net worth growth80% of the score29%
32%Population growth10% of the score29%
49Popularity10% of the score41
Cost and Effort, One Game per Map
6Games6
~$4.82CostLower is better$0.39
9.2MTokens6.6M
165Turns131
1 h 37 minWall-clock time1 h 55 min

Ranks are among the models with a full-budget score; over every map, among those with one on every map. Net worth and population growth are each the share of a person’s gain over doing nothing. Cost and effort add up one game on each map, the mean of its games where a model played a map more than once.

Where They Stand

Claude Opus 5.5 and DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 among the models with a full-budget score on every map.

Crusader Bench · crusbench.com

The Games