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Anthropic: Claude Opus 5.5 vs DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp

DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp is 26× cheaper for the sample workload; DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp has the larger context window.

MetricAnthropic: Claude Opus 5.5DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp
Model IDanthropic/claude-opus-5.5deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash-vision-exp
Prompt price$4.00 / 1M tokens$0.2156 / 1M tokens
Completion price$20.00 / 1M tokens$0.6468 / 1M tokens
Context1,000,000 tokens1,048,576 tokens
Tool calling✓✓
Structured outputs✓✓
Reasoning✓✓
Response format✓✓
Web search––
Input modalitiestext, image, filetext, image
Output modalitiestexttext
Added2026-09-222026-08-21

Sample workload

Chat app: 1,000 prompt + 500 completion tokens × 100 requests per day.

CostAnthropic: Claude Opus 5.5DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp
Per day$1.40$0.0539
Per 30 days$42.00$1.62

Difference: $1.35 per day and $40.38 per 30 days.

Data updated 2026-10-30