Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 4 vs DeepSeek: DeepSeek V3
Side-by-side comparison based on OpenRouter API data.
Key Differences
- •DeepSeek: DeepSeek V3 is 9.4x cheaper than Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 4 for input tokens
- •Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 4 has 1.2x more context than DeepSeek: DeepSeek V3 (200K vs 164K)
| Spec | Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 4 | DeepSeek: DeepSeek V3 |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | DeepSeek |
| Context Length | 200K | 164K |
| Max Output | 64K | 164K |
| Input Price/1M | $3.00 | $0.32 |
| Output Price/1M | $15 | $0.89 |
| Cache Read/1M | $0.30 | Free |
| Cache Write/1M | $3.75 | Free |
| Input Modalities | Image + Text + File | Text |
| Output Modalities | Text | Text |
| Tokenizer | Claude | DeepSeek |
| Moderated | Yes | No |