Head-to-Head Pricing Benchmark
Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 4.6 vs DeepSeek: DeepSeek V3.2 Speciale
Side-by-side pricing and context window comparison for production model selection.
Default Recommendation (120M input + 60M output)
DeepSeek: DeepSeek V3.2 Speciale is lower-cost for the default monthly workload scenario.
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| Metric | Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 4.6 | DeepSeek: DeepSeek V3.2 Speciale |
|---|---|---|
| Developer | anthropic | deepseek |
| Context Window | 1,000,000 | 163,840 |
| Max Output Tokens | 128,000 | 163,840 |
| Input Cost / 1M Tokens | $3.00 | $0.4000 |
| Output Cost / 1M Tokens | $15.00 | $1.20 |
| Projected Monthly Cost | $1,260 | $120 |
| Vision | ✅ Yes | ❌ No |
| Tool Calling | ✅ Yes | ❌ No |
| Structured Output | ✅ Yes | ✅ Yes |
| Reasoning | ✅ Yes | ✅ Yes |
| Web Search | ❌ No | ❌ No |
| Tokenizer | Claude | DeepSeek |
| MMLU Score | 77.2 | 86.3★ |
| GPQA | 59.9 | 87.1★ |
Price History
Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 4.6 Pricing Trend
Current Input / 1M
$3.00
Current Output / 1M
$15.00
Price History
DeepSeek: DeepSeek V3.2 Speciale Pricing Trend
Current Input / 1M
$0.4000
Current Output / 1M
$1.20
Cost Calculator
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Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 4.6
$1,260
per month
DeepSeek: DeepSeek V3.2 Speciale
$120
per month
Lower costLive Recommendation
DeepSeek: DeepSeek V3.2 Speciale is lower-cost at 120M input + 60M output tokens/month.
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