Head-to-Head Pricing Benchmark
Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.5 vs DeepSeek: DeepSeek V3.2
Side-by-side pricing and context window comparison for production model selection.
Default Recommendation (120M input + 60M output)
DeepSeek: DeepSeek V3.2 is lower-cost for the default monthly workload scenario.
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| Metric | Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.5 | DeepSeek: DeepSeek V3.2 |
|---|---|---|
| Developer | anthropic | deepseek |
| Context Window | 200,000 | 163,840 |
| Max Output Tokens | 64,000 | — |
| Input Cost / 1M Tokens | $5.00 | $0.2600 |
| Output Cost / 1M Tokens | $25.00 | $0.3800 |
| Projected Monthly Cost | $2,100 | $54 |
| Vision | ✅ Yes | ❌ No |
| Tool Calling | ✅ Yes | ✅ Yes |
| Structured Output | ✅ Yes | ✅ Yes |
| Reasoning | ✅ Yes | ✅ Yes |
| Web Search | ❌ No | ❌ No |
| Tokenizer | Claude | DeepSeek |
| MMLU Score | 69.6 | 83.7★ |
| GPQA | 48.9 | 75.1★ |
Price History
Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.5 Pricing Trend
Current Input / 1M
$5.00
Current Output / 1M
$25.00
Price History
DeepSeek: DeepSeek V3.2 Pricing Trend
Current Input / 1M
$0.2600
Current Output / 1M
$0.3800
Cost Calculator
Adjust your workload to see projected monthly costs.
Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.5
$2,100
per month
DeepSeek: DeepSeek V3.2
$54
per month
Lower costLive Recommendation
DeepSeek: DeepSeek V3.2 is lower-cost at 120M input + 60M output tokens/month.
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