Head to head
Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.8 vs DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash
Live prices, context windows, capabilities, and measured quality — updated continuously.
Side by side
| Metric | Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.8 Anthropic | DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash Deepseek |
|---|---|---|
| Input $/M tokens | $5.00 | $0.150 |
| Output $/M tokens | $25.00 | $0.600 |
| Context window | 1.0M | 1.0M |
| Max output | 128K | 384K |
| WM Score | 82 | 81 |
| Benchmark quality | 80.3 | 72 |
| Hosts serving it | 5 | 7 |
| Throughput (tok/s) | 76.5 | 133 |
| Latency (ms) | 1090 | 953 |
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Which should you pick?
DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash costs less per million input tokens — about 33.3× cheaper than Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.8. Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.8 scores higher on measured quality. DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash takes a larger context window, which matters for long documents or big codebases. Prices here are live list prices; the same model can cost less on a different host, so check the model page for the cheapest offering.