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Claude Code vs DeepSeek
Compare Claude Code vs DeepSeek: pricing, context window, benchmarks (coding, math, reasoning), capabilities. Updated April 2026.
Open in compare tool — pick different models →Claude Code
claude.com/claude-code ↗ DeepSeek
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Free tier
Not free — requires Claude Pro or API credits
Fully free in the consumer app
Standard plan
Claude Pro — $20/mo
API only — API only
Top plan
Claude Max 20× — $200/mo
API only — API only
API input / 1M tokens
$3.00
$0.27 Best
API output / 1M tokens
$15.00
$1.10 Best
Capability
Context window
1M Best
128K
Max output tokens
64K Best
8K
Knowledge cutoff
2026-03
2026-01
Benchmarks
Coding (LiveCodeBench)
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70% Best
Math (AIME 2025)
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72% Best
Reasoning (GPQA Diamond)
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73% Best
Human pref. (LMArena Elo)
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1356 Best
Features
Image input
✓
Partial
Voice mode
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Web search
✓
✓
File upload
✓
Partial
Image generation
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Code execution
✓
Partial
Agent / tool use
✓
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Persistent memory
✓
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Claude Code
Anthropic's CLI coding agent. Same Claude models as the chat product, but optimized for autonomous, multi-file refactoring with bash + edit tools. Strongest at large-codebase reasoning.
DeepSeek
Open weights. ~20× cheaper API than GPT-5.2. Chinese hosting raises data-residency considerations for some.
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