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Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.5 vs DeepSeek: R1 ·Anthropic vs DeepSeek

Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.5 vs DeepSeek: R1 — head-to-head comparison

Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.5 profile DeepSeek: R1 profile All comparisons
Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.5 — Anthropic
Quality
#27 of 65
72based on 5 of 7 evaluations
Known Good Index
Speed
#176 of 339
47.0
Output tokens per second
Price
#409 of 439
$10.00
Blended per 1M tokens
In $5.00 · Out $25.00
Cache hit price
#299 of 322
$0.50
per 1M tokens (−90%)
Context
#314 of 473
200k
tokens (~300 pages)
DeepSeek: R1 — DeepSeek
Quality
#22 of 65
75based on 4 of 7 evaluations
Known Good Index
Speed
#304 of 339
19.9
Output tokens per second
Price
#251 of 439
$1.15
Blended per 1M tokens
In $0.70 · Out $2.50
Cache hit price
unranked
—
per 1M tokens
Context
#441 of 473
64k
tokens (~98 pages)
Summary

On the Known Good Index, Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.5 scores 72 and DeepSeek: R1 scores 75 — a 3-point lead for DeepSeek: R1. They share 2 published evaluations, with Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.5 ahead on 2 and DeepSeek: R1 ahead on 0.

Blended pricing is $10.00 per 1M tokens for Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.5 and $1.15 for DeepSeek: R1 — DeepSeek: R1 is about 8.7× cheaper.

Throughput is 47 tokens per second for Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.5 and 20 for DeepSeek: R1, with time to first token at 1.4s and 1.2s. Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.5 accepts 200k tokens of context against 64k.

Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.5 is proprietary; DeepSeek: R1 is open weights under Open weights (unrestricted). 6 tracked hosts serve one or both, and 1 serve both.

Generated from tracked data on 3 Sep 2026 · how these comparisons are computed →

At a glance
MetricAnthropic: Claude Opus 4.5DeepSeek: R1
Known Good Index 72 based on 5 of 7 evaluations 75 based on 4 of 7 evaluations
Blended $/1M $10.00 $1.15
Output tok/s 47 20
Context window 200k 64k
Providers 5 2
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Quality

Known Good Index and the capability indices, side by side

Index scores

Each index is min-max normalised across tracked models and scaled 0–100 from published evaluations. We do not run these evaluations.

MetricAnthropic: Claude Opus 4.5DeepSeek: R1
Known Good Index 72 75
Coding Index 80 —
Mathematics Index — 74
Reasoning Index 58 77
Openness Index 5 60
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Quality Breakdown

Every evaluation both models report a published score for

Evaluations both models report

Bar = Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.5 · marker = DeepSeek: R1 · scores ingested from Epoch AI (CC-BY 4.0)

GPQA Diamond86 / 69
Mock AIME 2024–2586 / 53

Right-hand figures read Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.5 / DeepSeek: R1. Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.5 leads on 2 of 2, DeepSeek: R1 on 0.

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Arena Elo

Human preference rating from blind pairwise votes

Arena ratings

Elo from blind pairwise votes, ingested from Arena. Higher is better.

MetricAnthropic: Claude Opus 4.5DeepSeek: R1
Text Arena 1,450 1,372
Text Arena (style controlled) 1,469 1,398
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Price & Cost

Published API pricing by token type

Published pricing

USD per 1M tokens. Blended is a 3:1 input:output mix. Live from OpenRouter, cross-checked against models.dev. Lower is better.

MetricAnthropic: Claude Opus 4.5DeepSeek: R1
Input $/1M $5.00 $0.70
Output $/1M $25.00 $2.50
Blended $/1M $10.00 $1.15
Cache read $/1M $0.500 —
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We publish blended price rather than cost-per-task. Cost-per-task requires token counts from an evaluation suite we do not run. Blended price is computed from published rates and is fully reproducible — see the pricing methodology.

Context Window

Maximum input accepted and maximum output emitted

Context and output limits

Provider-declared limits, from metadata via models.dev and OpenRouter. Higher is better.

MetricAnthropic: Claude Opus 4.5DeepSeek: R1
Context window 200k 64k
Max output tokens 64k 16k
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Speed & Latency

Mean throughput and time to first token across hosting providers, over successful measurements from the last 48 hours

Throughput and latency

Means across all tracked providers over successful measurements from the last 48 hours, derived from OpenRouter endpoint telemetry.

MetricAnthropic: Claude Opus 4.5DeepSeek: R1
Output tokens/s 47 20
Time to first token 1.4s 1.2s
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Providers

Which hosts serve each model, and at what price and speed

6 hosts · 1 serve both
Full provider benchmarks →
Provider Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.5 blendedAnthropic: Claude Opus 4.5 tok/s DeepSeek: R1 blendedDeepSeek: R1 tok/s
Azure · first party $10.00 135 $2.60 —
Amazon Bedrock · first party $10.00 87 — —
Claude Platform on AWS $10.00 77 — —
Anthropic · first party $10.00 40 — —
Google · first party $10.00 5 — —
Novita — — $1.15 19

Per-host pricing and telemetry from OpenRouter. A dash means that host does not serve that model.

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