Head-to-Head Pricing Benchmark
Anthropic: Claude Opus 4 vs DeepSeek: R1 Distill Qwen 32B
Side-by-side pricing and context window comparison for production model selection.
Default Recommendation (120M input + 60M output)
DeepSeek: R1 Distill Qwen 32B is lower-cost for the default monthly workload scenario.
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| Metric | Anthropic: Claude Opus 4 | DeepSeek: R1 Distill Qwen 32B |
|---|---|---|
| Developer | anthropic | deepseek |
| Context Window | 200,000 | 32,768 |
| Max Output Tokens | 32,000 | 32,768 |
| Input Cost / 1M Tokens | $15.00 | $0.2900 |
| Output Cost / 1M Tokens | $75.00 | $0.2900 |
| Projected Monthly Cost | $6,300 | $52 |
| Vision | ✅ Yes | ❌ No |
| Tool Calling | ✅ Yes | ❌ No |
| Structured Output | ❌ No | ✅ Yes |
| Reasoning | ✅ Yes | ✅ Yes |
| Web Search | ❌ No | ❌ No |
| Tokenizer | Claude | Qwen |
| MMLU Score | 69.6 | 73.9★ |
| GPQA | 48.9 | 61.5★ |
Price History
Anthropic: Claude Opus 4 Pricing Trend
Current Input / 1M
$15.00
Current Output / 1M
$75.00
Price History
DeepSeek: R1 Distill Qwen 32B Pricing Trend
Current Input / 1M
$0.2900
Current Output / 1M
$0.2900
Cost Calculator
Adjust your workload to see projected monthly costs.
Anthropic: Claude Opus 4
$6,300
per month
DeepSeek: R1 Distill Qwen 32B
$52
per month
Lower costLive Recommendation
DeepSeek: R1 Distill Qwen 32B is lower-cost at 120M input + 60M output tokens/month.
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