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Claude Opus vs DeepSeek
Compare Claude Opus vs DeepSeek: pricing, context window, benchmarks (coding, math, reasoning), capabilities. Updated April 2026.
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Free tier
Not available on free tier
Fully free in the consumer app
Standard plan
Max 5× — $100/mo
API only — API only
Top plan
Max 20× — $200/mo
API only — API only
API input / 1M tokens
$15.00
$0.27 Best
API output / 1M tokens
$75.00
$1.10 Best
Capability
Context window
1M Best
128K
Max output tokens
64K Best
8K
Knowledge cutoff
2026-03
2026-01
Benchmarks
Coding (LiveCodeBench)
82% Best
70%
Math (AIME 2025)
81% Best
72%
Reasoning (GPQA Diamond)
88% Best
73%
Human pref. (LMArena Elo)
1428 Best
1356
Features
Image input
✓
Partial
Voice mode
Partial
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Web search
✓
✓
File upload
✓
Partial
Image generation
—
—
Code execution
✓
Partial
Agent / tool use
✓
—
Persistent memory
✓
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Claude Opus
Frontier reasoning model. 5× the cost of Sonnet for ~5pt benchmark lift.
DeepSeek
Open weights. ~20× cheaper API than GPT-5.2. Chinese hosting raises data-residency considerations for some.
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