$ diff deepseek-v4 claude-opus-4-8
DeepSeek V4 vs Claude Opus 4.8
DeepSeek and Anthropic, side by side. Every value below is the one recorded on the model’s own wiki page, with its citation — nothing is estimated.
DeepSeekDeepSeek V4
- context
- 1M
- weights
- open
- $/M in
- —
- $/M out
- —
- context
- 1M
- weights
- closed
- $/M in
- $5
- $/M out
- $25
What actually differs
- Context window
- Identical — both accept 1M tokens, so context length is not a reason to pick either.
- Weights
- DeepSeek V4 publishes weights (MIT (open-weight)); Claude Opus 4.8 is API-only. That decides self-hosting, air-gapped deployment and fine-tuning before any capability question does.
- Recency
- DeepSeek V4 shipped 49 days after Claude Opus 4.8 (2026-07-16 vs 2026-05-28).
Full spec
| Attribute | DeepSeek V4 | Claude Opus 4.8 |
|---|---|---|
| Developer | DeepSeek | Anthropic |
| Released | 2026-07-16 | 2026-05-28 |
| Context window | 1M tokens (384K max output) | 1M tokens |
| Pricing | Peak: 2× off-peak API rates; off-peak rates not disclosed | $5/M input · $25/M output |
| License | MIT (open-weight) | proprietary (API-only; no weight release) |
| Availability | DeepSeek API, Hugging Face (deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Pro) | Claude API, Amazon Bedrock, Vertex AI |
Values come from DeepSeek V4 and Claude Opus 4.8, where each is cited to its source. This page states no benchmark result and ranks neither model — it puts two published specifications next to each other. Where a lab has not published a figure, the row says so rather than guessing. How these pages are produced.