Anthropic: Claude Opus 5 vs DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813

On input price, DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 is ~7.6× cheaper. Verified 2026-10-21.

Anthropic: Claude Opus 5 $5.00/$25.00vsDeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 $0.660/$1.98

Verdict

On blended price (3:1 input:output), DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 is ~10.1× cheaper ($0.660/$1.98 vs $5.00/$25.00 per 1M tokens). Anthropic: Claude Opus 5 scores higher on intelligence (63 vs 53, Artificial Analysis) — pay more only if that gap matters for your workload.

Pricing

Per-million-token list prices, verified 2026-10-21. Green marks the better value.

Metric	Anthropic: Claude Opus 5	DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813
Input / 1M	$5.00	$0.660
Output / 1M	$25.00	$1.98
Cache read / 1M	$0.500	$0.022
Blended (3:1)	$10.00/1M	$0.990/1M

Estimated monthly cost	Anthropic: Claude Opus 5	DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813
Chatbot10,000 reqs · 800/400 tok	$140.00	$13.20
Coding agent5,000 reqs · 8000/2000 tok	$450.00	$46.20
RAG pipeline30,000 reqs · 4000/500 tok	$975.00	$108.90

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Specifications & capabilities

Metric	Anthropic: Claude Opus 5	DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813
Context window	1M	1.0M
Max output	128K	384K
Vision input	✓	–
Tool calling	✓	✓
Reasoning	✓	✓

Quality

Intelligence Index by Artificial Analysis (independent evaluations, 0–100).

Intelligence Index — higher is better

Anthropic: Claude Opus 563

DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Pro 081353

Sources: Anthropic: Claude Opus 5 on Artificial Analysis · DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 on Artificial Analysis

Performance

Measured by Artificial Analysis on live endpoints.

Output speed — higher is better

Anthropic: Claude Opus 585 tok/s

DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813115 tok/s

Latency (TTFT) — lower is better

Anthropic: Claude Opus 51,200 ms

DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813850 ms

Metric	Anthropic: Claude Opus 5	DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813
Cost per task	$0.000025	$0.000007

Provider

Infrastructure metrics for the organizations behind these models.

Metric	Anthropic	DeepSeek
Listed endpoints	8	6
Reliability	99.8%	99.6%
Avg latency	520 ms	480 ms
Pricing tiers	standard, batch	standard, free

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