Anthropic: Claude Opus 5.5 vs DeepSeek: R1
DeepSeek: R1 is cheaper than Anthropic: Claude Opus 5.5 by about 96% on a blended (75% input / 25% output) basis. Anthropic: Claude Opus 5.5 charges $4.000000 / $20.000000 per 1M input/output tokens; DeepSeek: R1 charges $0.280000 / $0.420000.
| Field | Anthropic: Claude Opus 5.5 | DeepSeek: R1 |
|---|---|---|
| Input $/Mtok | $4.000000 | $0.280000 |
| Output $/Mtok | $20.000000 | $0.420000 |
| Cache read $/Mtok | $0.200000 | $0.028000 |
| Cache write $/Mtok | $5.000000 | – |
| Input $/Mchar | n/a | 0.091836 |
| Output $/Mchar | n/a | 0.137755 |
| Context window | 1000000 | 64000 |
| Tokenizer | claude | deepseek |
Price history
Same workload, monthly cost
Illustrative monthly cost at 10M tokens/month, split per workload preset. Not a substitute for the calculator, which uses your own volume, cache and batch assumptions.
| Workload | Anthropic: Claude Opus 5.5 | DeepSeek: R1 |
|---|---|---|
| Coding agent | $48.00 | $2.87 |
| RAG chat | $64.00 | $3.01 |
| Summarisation (batch) | $56.00 | $2.94 |
| Classification | $43.20 | $2.83 |
| Chat assistant | $104.00 | $3.36 |
| Content generation | $168.00 | $3.92 |
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Anthropic: Claude Opus 5.5 vs DeepSeek: R1: $4.000000/$20.000000 vs $0.280000/$0.420000 per 1M tokens, as of 2026-10-04 (Token Barometer, https://tokenbarometer.com/compare/anthropic_claude-opus-5-5-vs-deepseek_deepseek-reasoner).
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