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Claude 3 Haiku vs DeepSeek R1

List-price comparison ·Claude 3 Haiku details ·DeepSeek R1 details

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For a typical workload (100,000 requests / mo), Claude 3 Haiku is the cheapest — 45% less than the priciest here ($80.00/mo vs $146.00/mo).

 Claude 3 HaikuDeepSeek R1
Input / 1M tokens$0.250$0.500
Output / 1M tokens$1.25$2.15
Typical request (1,200 in + 400 out)$0.0008$0.0015
Context window200k tokens163,840 tokens
Max output4,096 tokens32,768 tokens
Quality score72/10084/100
TierFlashFlagship
ProviderAnthropicDeepSeek

Projected monthly cost

Requests / moClaude 3 HaikuDeepSeek R1
1,000$0.8$1.46
10,000$8.00$14.60
100,000$80.00$146.00
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Claude 3 Haiku

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DeepSeek R1

Chain-of-thought reasoning competitive with closed flagship models on math and logic benchmarks, at open-weight pricing.

Emits long reasoning traces that inflate output token counts and cost — cap reasoning length or use a distilled variant for latency-sensitive paths.

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Vendor list rates · per-request examples assume 1,200 input + 400 output tokens.