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Claude Opus 4.8 vs DeepSeek V3
List-price comparison ·Claude Opus 4.8 details ·DeepSeek V3 details
For a typical workload (100,000 requests / mo), DeepSeek V3 is the cheapest — 95% less than the priciest here ($72.04/mo vs $1,600.00/mo).
| Claude Opus 4.8 | DeepSeek V3 | |
|---|---|---|
| Input / 1M tokens | $5.00 | $0.257 |
| Output / 1M tokens | $25.00 | $1.03 |
| Typical request (1,200 in + 400 out) | $0.016 | $0.0007 |
| Context window | 1M tokens | 163,840 tokens |
| Max output | 128k tokens | 16k tokens |
| Quality score | 97/100 | 85/100 |
| Tier | Flagship | Balanced |
| Provider | Anthropic | DeepSeek |
Projected monthly cost
| Requests / mo | Claude Opus 4.8 | DeepSeek V3 |
|---|---|---|
| 1,000 | $16.00 | $0.7204 |
| 10,000 | $160.00 | $7.20 |
| 100,000 | $1,600.00 | $72.04 |
Claude Opus 4.8
Best-in-class for complex multi-step agentic workflows, long-horizon planning, and large codebase refactors. Strong instruction-following on ambiguous, open-ended tasks.
Highest per-token cost in the catalog and noticeably higher latency — reserve for tasks that genuinely need top-tier reasoning rather than routine completions.
DeepSeek V3
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