deepseek-r1 vs claude-opus-4-6
Side-by-side comparison of deepseek-r1 and claude-opus-4-6— benchmarks, pricing, context window and capabilities. Both are accessible through Requesty's unified API. claude-opus-4-6 outperforms deepseek-r1 on 7 of 7 shared benchmarks.
deepseek-r1
Input / 1M
$4.00
Output / 1M
$4.00
Context
64K
Model ID
novita/deepseek/deepseek-r1
claude-opus-4-6
Input / 1M
$5.00
Output / 1M
$25.00
Context
1M
Model ID
anthropic/claude-opus-4-6
Benchmark comparison
Intelligence Indexreasoning
deepseek-r127.1%
claude-opus-4-652.9%
Coding Indexcoding
deepseek-r124.0%
claude-opus-4-648.1%
Math Indexmath
deepseek-r176.0%
claude-opus-4-6—
GPQA Diamondreasoning
deepseek-r181.3%
claude-opus-4-689.6%
AIME 2025math
deepseek-r176.0%
claude-opus-4-6—
LiveCodeBenchcoding
deepseek-r177.0%
claude-opus-4-6—
Terminal-Bench Hardagentic
deepseek-r115.9%
claude-opus-4-646.2%
τ²-Benchagentic
deepseek-r136.5%
claude-opus-4-692.1%
SciCodecoding
deepseek-r140.3%
claude-opus-4-651.9%
MMLU Proknowledge
deepseek-r184.9%
claude-opus-4-6—
Humanity's Last Examreasoning
deepseek-r114.9%
claude-opus-4-636.7%
Scores sourced from official model cards, Artificial Analysis, and public leaderboards. Benchmarks measure specific skills and don't capture every aspect of model quality.
Pricing & specifications
| deepseek-r1 | claude-opus-4-6 | |
|---|---|---|
| Input price / 1M | $4.00 | $5.00 |
| Output price / 1M | $4.00 | $25.00 |
| Context window | 64K tokens | 1M tokens |
| Max output | — | 128K tokens |
| Vision input | — | Yes |
| Tool calling | Yes | Yes |
| Reasoning | — | Yes |
| Prompt caching | — | Yes |
| Computer use | — | Yes |
| Provider | Novita AI | Anthropic PBC |
Questions people ask
Is deepseek-r1 better than claude-opus-4-6?
claude-opus-4-6 outperforms deepseek-r1 on 7 of 7 shared benchmarks. See the benchmark comparison above for specifics — deepseek-r1 and claude-opus-4-6 have different strengths across reasoning, coding, math and multimodal tasks.
Which is cheaper — deepseek-r1 or claude-opus-4-6?
deepseek-r1 is cheaper. deepseek-r1 costs $4.00/$4.00 per 1M input/output tokens, while claude-opus-4-6 costs $5.00/$25.00.
Can I use deepseek-r1 and claude-opus-4-6 through the same API?
Yes. Requesty provides a single OpenAI-compatible API that routes to both. Change just the "model" parameter to switch — "novita/deepseek/deepseek-r1" or "anthropic/claude-opus-4-6" — no other code changes needed.
What are the context windows?
deepseek-r1 supports up to 64K tokens of context. claude-opus-4-6 supports up to 1M tokens. Longer context means you can feed larger documents or codebases in a single prompt, though quality often degrades past 128K for most models.
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