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Claude Opus 4.8 vs DeepSeek V4 Flash
List-price comparison · Claude Opus 4.8 details · DeepSeek V4 Flash details
For a typical workload (100,000 requests / mo), DeepSeek V4 Flash costs 99% less — $19.60/mo vs $1,600.00/mo.
| Claude Opus 4.8 | DeepSeek V4 Flash | |
|---|---|---|
| Input / 1M tokens | $5.00 | $0.098 |
| Output / 1M tokens | $25.00 | $0.196 |
| Typical request (1,200 in + 400 out) | $0.016 | $0.0002 |
| Context window | 1M tokens | 1,048,576 tokens |
| Max output | 128k tokens | — |
| Tier | Flagship | Flash |
| Provider | Anthropic | DeepSeek |
Projected monthly cost
1,000 requests / month$16.00 vs $0.19610,000 requests / month$160.00 vs $1.96100,000 requests / month$1,600.00 vs $19.60
Rows open both models in the calculator — adjust volume and token counts there.
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 V4 Flash
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