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Claude Sonnet 5.5 vs DeepSeek V3.2
List-price comparison ·Claude Sonnet 5.5 details ·DeepSeek V3.2 details
For a typical workload (100,000 requests / mo), DeepSeek V3.2 is the cheapest — 92% less than the priciest here ($50.40/mo vs $640.00/mo).
| Claude Sonnet 5.5 | DeepSeek V3.2 | |
|---|---|---|
| Input / 1M tokens | $2.00 | $0.280 |
| Output / 1M tokens | $10.00 | $0.420 |
| Typical request (1,200 in + 400 out) | $0.0064 | $0.0005 |
| Context window | 1M tokens | 163,840 tokens |
| Max output | 128k tokens | 65,536 tokens |
| Quality score | 88/100 | 79/100 |
| Tier | Balanced | Balanced |
| Provider | Anthropic | DeepSeek |
Projected monthly cost
| Requests / mo | Claude Sonnet 5.5 | DeepSeek V3.2 |
|---|---|---|
| 1,000 | $6.40 | $0.504 |
| 10,000 | $64.00 | $5.04 |
| 100,000 | $640.00 | $50.40 |
Claude Sonnet 5.5
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DeepSeek V3.2
Extremely competitive coding and reasoning benchmarks at a fraction of commercial-API pricing — strong default for cost-sensitive batch workloads.
Open-weight hosting means latency and uptime vary by inference provider (DeepInfra, Fireworks, etc.) — pin a provider or add fallbacks for production SLAs.
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Vendor list rates · per-request examples assume 1,200 input + 400 output tokens.