The Known Good Updated 25 Jul 2026
Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.7 vs DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Pro ·Anthropic vs DeepSeek

Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.7 vs DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Pro — head-to-head comparison

Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.7 profile DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Pro profile All comparisons
Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.7 — Anthropic
Quality
#4 of 61
94based on 5 of 6 evaluations
Known Good Index
Speed
#158 of 316
52.4
Output tokens per second
Price
#314 of 340
$10.00
Blended per 1M tokens
In $5.00 · Out $25.00
Cache hit price
#185 of 206
$0.50
per 1M tokens (−90%)
Context
#83 of 345
1.00M
tokens (~1,500 pages)
DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Pro — DeepSeek
Quality
#6 of 61
93based on 3 of 6 evaluations
Known Good Index
Speed
#182 of 316
45.2
Output tokens per second
Price
#145 of 340
$0.54
Blended per 1M tokens
In $0.43 · Out $0.87
Cache hit price
#12 of 206
$0.004
per 1M tokens (−99%)
Context
#25 of 345
1.05M
tokens (~1,600 pages)
Summary

On the Known Good Index, Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.7 scores 94 and DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Pro scores 93, which puts them level. They share 3 published evaluations, with Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.7 ahead on 3 and DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Pro ahead on 0.

Blended pricing is $10.00 per 1M tokens for Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.7 and $0.54 for DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Pro — DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Pro is about 18.4× cheaper.

Throughput is 52 tokens per second for Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.7 and 45 for DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Pro, with time to first token at 1.4s and 2.0s. Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.7 accepts 1.00M tokens of context against 1.05M.

Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.7 is proprietary; DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Pro is open weights under Open weights (unrestricted). 22 tracked hosts serve one or both.

Generated from tracked data on 25 Jul 2026 · how these comparisons are computed →

At a glance
MetricAnthropic: Claude Opus 4.7DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Pro
Known Good Index 94 based on 5 of 6 evaluations 93 based on 3 of 6 evaluations
Blended $/1M $10.00 $0.54
Output tok/s 52 45
Context window 1.00M 1.05M
Providers 4 18
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Quality

Known Good Index and the capability indices, side by side

IndicesComponents
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 4.7DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Pro
Known Good Index 94 93
Coding Index 100
Mathematics Index 98 97
Science Index 95 94
Reasoning Index 86
Agentic Index 100 89
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 4.7 · marker = DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Pro · scores ingested from Epoch AI (CC-BY 4.0)

GPQA Diamond90 / 90
MATH / AIME98 / 97
SWE-bench Verified83 / 78

Right-hand figures read Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.7 / DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Pro. Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.7 leads on 3 of 3, DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Pro 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 4.7DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Pro
Text Arena 1,482 1,449
Text Arena (style controlled) 1,494 1,457
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Price & Cost

Published API pricing by token type

Per token typeCache discount
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 4.7DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Pro
Input $/1M $5.00 $0.43
Output $/1M $25.00 $0.87
Blended $/1M $10.00 $0.54
Cache read $/1M $0.500 $0.004
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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 4.7DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Pro
Context window 1.00M 1.05M
Max output tokens 128k 384k
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Speed & Latency

Median throughput and time to first token across hosting providers

Output speedTime to first token
Throughput and latency

Medians across all tracked providers, derived from OpenRouter endpoint telemetry.

MetricAnthropic: Claude Opus 4.7DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Pro
Output tokens/s 52 45
Time to first token 1.4s 2.0s
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Providers

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

22 hosts
Full provider benchmarks →
Provider Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.7 blendedAnthropic: Claude Opus 4.7 tok/s DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Pro blendedDeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Pro tok/s
Google · first party $10.00 70
Anthropic · first party $10.00 45
Amazon Bedrock · first party $10.00 17
Azure · first party $10.00
BaseTen $2.17 110
Fireworks $2.17 66
Novita $1.46 66
DeepInfra $1.62 65
GMICloud $0.85 62
Venice $2.06 61
Baidu · first party $0.78 58
Together $2.17 53
Alibaba · first party $1.77 52
AtlasCloud $2.10 46
Wafer $1.50 45
DeepSeek · first party $0.54 44
SiliconFlow $1.91 41
StreamLake $0.84 41
CoreWeave $2.17 28
Ionstream $1.41 20
DigitalOcean $1.74 6
Parasail $2.17

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

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