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Claude Opus 4.8 vs DeepSeek V3 0324

List-price comparison · Claude Opus 4.8 details · DeepSeek V3 0324 details

For a typical workload (100,000 requests / mo), DeepSeek V3 0324 costs 97% less $54.80/mo vs $1,600.00/mo.

 Claude Opus 4.8DeepSeek V3 0324
Input / 1M tokens$5.00$0.200
Output / 1M tokens$25.00$0.770
Typical request (1,200 in + 400 out)$0.016$0.0005
Context window1M tokens163,840 tokens
Max output128k tokens16,384 tokens
TierFlagshipFlash
ProviderAnthropicDeepSeek

Projected monthly cost

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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 0324

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