Anthropic vs DeepSeek Pricing
Per-million-token pricing for Anthropic and DeepSeek, with side-by-side flagship models, cheapest tiers, and context windows. Pricing data syncs weekly from a continuously-updated model catalog — last updated June 22, 2026.
As of June 22, 2026, DeepSeek offers the lowest output-token price at $0.10/1M (DeepSeek R1 0528 Qwen3 8B — $0.10/1M output).
Who wins on what
Cheapest input tokens
$0.02/1MDeepSeek
DeepSeek R1 0528 Qwen3 8B — $0.02/1M input
Cheapest output tokens
$0.10/1MDeepSeek
DeepSeek R1 0528 Qwen3 8B — $0.10/1M output
Longest context window
1.0MAnthropic
Claude 4 Sonnet (2025-05-14) — 1.0M input tokens
Lowest average output cost
$0.79/1MDeepSeek
Provider-wide average across 21 models
Largest model catalog
41 modelsAnthropic
More options to match cost vs capability
Cheapest cached input
$0.00/1MDeepSeek
DeepSeek Chat — $0.00/1M cached read
Most vision models
9 modelsAnthropic
Models that accept image input
Open-weights available
YesDeepSeek
Offers open-weight models you can self-host
Side-by-side
Anthropic
Cheapest input
$0.250
Claude 3 Haiku
Cheapest output
$1.25
Claude 3 Haiku
Longest context
1.0M
Claude 4 Sonnet (2025-05-14)
Avg output / 1M
$25.49
Across catalog
Cheapest cached input
$0.030
Claude Haiku 3
| Model | In/1M | Out/1M | Ctx |
|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Fable 5 VisionReasoningToolsCache | $10.00 | $50.00 | 1.0M |
| Claude Opus 4.8 VisionReasoningToolsCache | $5.00 | $25.00 | 1.0M |
| Claude Opus 4.7 | $5.00 | $25.00 | 200K |
| Claude Opus 4.6 | $5.00 | $25.00 | 200K |
| Claude Opus 4.5 | $5.00 | $25.00 | 200K |
| Claude 3 Haiku | $0.250 | $1.25 | 200K |
DeepSeek
Cheapest input
$0.020
DeepSeek R1 0528 Qwen3 8B
Cheapest output
$0.100
DeepSeek R1 0528 Qwen3 8B
Longest context
1.0M
DeepSeek Chat
Avg output / 1M
$0.790
Across catalog
Cheapest cached input
$0.0028
DeepSeek Chat
| Model | In/1M | Out/1M | Ctx |
|---|---|---|---|
| DeepSeek V4 Pro ReasoningToolsCache | $0.435 | $0.870 | 1.0M |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash ReasoningToolsCache | $0.140 | $0.280 | 1.0M |
| DeepSeek Chat ToolsCache | $0.140 | $0.280 | 1.0M |
| DeepSeek Reasoner ReasoningToolsCache | $0.140 | $0.280 | 1.0M |
| DeepSeek R1 | $0.550 | $2.19 | 66K |
| DeepSeek R1 0528 Qwen3 8B | $0.020 | $0.100 | 33K |
All prices in USD per 1 million tokens. Showing top 6 models per provider, sorted by output cost.
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