Claude Opus 5 vs DeepSeek V4 Flash: API pricing
Anthropic's Claude Opus 5 against DeepSeek's DeepSeek V4 Flash on price alone — per-token rates, caching, and context window. Run your own workload through both with the calculator below; capability differences are yours to judge on your evals.
| Claude Opus 5 | DeepSeek V4 Flash | |
|---|---|---|
| Input / 1M tokens | $5.00 | $0.44 |
| Cached input / 1M | $0.50 | $0.014 |
| Output / 1M tokens | $25.00 | $1.32 |
| Context window | 1M | 1M |
| Max output | 125K | 384K |
| Vendor | Anthropic | DeepSeek |
Prices last synced Aug 20, 2026 from the LiteLLM community price catalog — the same catalog Marginal prices real usage events against, refreshed daily. Spot an error? Tell us.
Price takeaways
- Input: DeepSeek V4 Flash is 11x cheaper.
- Output: DeepSeek V4 Flash is 19x cheaper.
- Cached input: DeepSeek V4 Flash is 36x cheaper.
- Ratios shift with workload shape — output-heavy traffic weights the output rate, cache-friendly traffic weights the cached rate. The calculator below does the arithmetic on your numbers.
Your workload on both
Your monthly workload
Cache hit rate = share of input tokens served from the provider's prompt cache, billed at the model's cached-input price. Estimates use standard per-token rates — batch discounts, service tiers, and long-context surcharges are not applied.
| Model | Input | Cached input | Output | Per request | Monthly |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DeepSeek V4 Flashcheapest | $264 | $5.60 | $330 | $0.00120 | $600 |
| Claude Opus 5 | $3,000 | $200 | $6,250 | $0.019 | $9,450 |
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