Claude 3 Opus vs DeepSeek R1
Compare Claude 3 Opus by Anthropic against DeepSeek R1 by DeepSeek, context windows of 200K vs 128K, tested across 12 shared challenges.
Our Verdict
Claude 3 Opus
DeepSeek R1Runner-up
No community votes yet. On paper, Claude 3 Opus has the edge — bigger model tier, bigger context window.
DeepSeek R1 is 34x cheaper per token — worth considering if cost matters.
Too close to call
API pricing
Cost per 1M tokens
Claude 3 Opus
Input
$15.00
Output
$75.00
DeepSeek R1
Input
$0.55
27× cheaper
Output
$2.19
34× cheaper
DeepSeek R1 is cheaper on both — 27× input, 34× output
Writing DNA
Style Comparison
Similarity
30%
DeepSeek R1 uses 800.0x more bold
Claude 3 Opus
DeepSeek R1
54%Vocabulary62%
14wSentence Length15w
0.48Hedging0.52
0.0Bold8.0
3.0Lists5.7
0.00Emoji0.04
0.00Headings0.62
0.06Transitions0.28
Based on 3 + 22 text responses
Research
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