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| Attribute | DeepSeek V4.1 Flashdeepseek-v4.1-flash | Claude Opus 4.8claude-opus-4-8 |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | ||
| Input | $0.30 / 1M | $4.00 / 1M |
| Output | $1.20 / 1M | $20.00 / 1M |
| Cache Write (5m) | $0.30 / 1M | $5.00 / 1M |
| Cache Write (1h) | $0.30 / 1M | $8.00 / 1M |
| Cache Read | $0.30 / 1M | $0.40 / 1M |
| Web Search | $0 / 1M | $0 / 1M |
| Context | ||
| Max context | 1M | 1M |
| Max output | N/A | N/A |
| Capabilities | ||
| Vision | Yes | Yes |
| Function Calling | Yes | Yes |
| JSON Mode | Yes | Yes |
| Streaming | Yes | Yes |
| Catalogue | ||
| Provider | DeepSeek | Anthropic |
| Category | chat | chat |
| Charge type | Pay As You Go | Pay As You Go |
| Released | — | — |
| Description | ||
| Summary | DeepSeek V4.1 Flash is a cost-efficient sparse Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) model in DeepSeek's V4.1 family, optimized for coding, reasoning, and agentic workflows. Despite its efficiency-focused positioning, DeepSeek reports that it surpasses the previous V4 Pro in performance, inference speed, and overall task completion time. The model is particularly strong at long-horizon, multi-step execution, making it well suited for coding agents, complex problem solving, and autonomous workflows that must reliably carry tasks through to completion. | Claude Opus 4.8 is Anthropic's most capable generally available model in the Opus family, designed for highly autonomous agents, long-horizon workflows, and advanced knowledge work. It supports text, image, and file inputs with text output, includes reasoning capabilities, and features a 1M-token context window for maintaining coherence across extended tasks and sessions. The model excels at multi-step reasoning, complex coding, and end-to-end project orchestration, including large codebases, multi-stage debugging, and long-running asynchronous agent pipelines. Beyond software engineering, it is highly effective for document drafting, presentation creation, data analysis, and memory-driven workflows, delivering consistent quality across very long outputs and complex projects. |