Claude Opus 4.8 vs DeepSeek-V4-Flash

DeepSeek-V4-Flash is about 57.1× cheaper than Claude Opus 4.8 on blended token cost ($0.175 vs $10 per 1M).

SpecClaude Opus 4.8DeepSeek-V4-Flash
ProviderAnthropicDeepSeek
StatusGAPreview
Input $/1M$5$0.14
Output $/1M$25$0.28
Blended $/1M$10$0.175
Context1M1M
Max output128K384K
Cutoff2026-01