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Updated Aug 2026

Claude Opus 4vsDeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp

DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp is cheaper than Claude Opus 4 at $0.22/M vs $15/M input tokens.

Claude Opus 4 and DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp compared across 8 shared prompts
SpecClaude Opus 4DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp
Input price$15/M tokens$0.22/M tokens
Output price$75/M tokens$0.66/M tokens
Context window200K tokens1.0M tokens
Weights—Open
Free API (OpenRouter)NoNo
ReleasedMay 2025Aug 2026
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Opening lines from 3 of the 8 prompts both answered. Formatting stripped, words untouched.

Simple 7-Ingredient Recipe

Create a simple recipe for a delicious dish (sweet or savory) using only 7 common pantry ingredients. Include a creative name for the dish…

Claude Opus 4185 words
Midnight Comfort Pasta Ingredients: 12 oz spaghetti or any pasta 3 tablespoons olive oil 4 cloves garlic, minced 1/2 teaspoon red pepper flakes 1 can (14.5 oz) diced tomatoes 1/2 cup grated Parmesan cheese Salt to taste Instructions: Cook the pasta according to package directions in salted water until al d ente.
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DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp144 words
Sticky Soy-Glazed Midnight Noodles A sweet-savory, buttery noodle dish that comes together in about 20 minutes with pantry staples. Ingredients (7): 8 oz spaghetti or noodles 3 tbsp butter 3 cloves garlic, thinly sliced 2 tbsp soy sauce 1 tbsp honey ½ tsp chili flakes 1 tbsp sesame seeds Instructions: Cook the noodles…
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Beginner's Longevity Plan

Outline a simple, actionable 1-month plan for someone starting their journey towards better health and longevity. Focus on 3 key areas…

Claude Opus 4470 words
Your 1-Month Health & Longevity Kickstart Plan Week-by-Week Overview Week 1: Foundation Building Focus on establishing basic habits without overwhelming yourself. Week 2: Consistency Solidify Week 1 habits and add small challenges. Week 3: Expansion Introduce variety and slightly increase intensity.
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DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp565 words
Here’s a simple, beginner-friendly 1-month plan built around three key pillars: Nutrition, Movement, and Sleep & Stress. The goal is small, repeatable habits — not perfection. The 3 Key Areas Nutrition Goal: Eat more whole foods, more protein, and more plants.
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Explain Like I'm a Specific Expert

Explain how a large language model (like GPT or Claude) learns and generates text to each of these three audiences: 1. **An experienced…

Claude Opus 4722 words
For the Software Engineer: Think of an LLM as a massive distributed system where instead of storing key-value pairs, you're storing statistical relationships between tokens. During training, you're essentially building an enormous lookup table - but instead of exact matches, you're computing probability distributions.
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DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp869 words
Here is how a large language model learns and generates text, tailored to each of your three audiences. To an Experienced Software Engineer You build distributed systems, so think of an LLM as a massively parallel, lossy compression engine for human text.
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Our Verdict
Claude Opus 4
Claude Opus 4
DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp
DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp

Not enough votes to call it. On the specs, nothing separates them.

DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp costs 114x less per token.

Too close to call
API pricing

Cost per 1M tokens

Claude Opus 4
Input
$15.00
Output
$75.00
DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp
Input
$0.22
68× cheaper
Output
$0.66
114× cheaper

DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp is cheaper on both: 68× input, 114× output.

Where to run it

5 hosts, cheapest first

Claude Opus 4

No hosts listed on OpenRouter.

DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp5 hosts
HostInOutContextUptime
FFireworks$0.22 in·$0.66 out·1M·99.8% upGGMI Cloudfp8$0.44 in·$1.32 out·1M·99.8% upNNovita$0.44 in·$1.32 out·1M·100% upSSiliconFlowfp8$0.44 in·$1.32 out·1M·97.4% upDDeepInfrafp8degraded$0.22 in·$0.65 out·1M·66.3% up

Per million tokens. Prices and uptime via OpenRouter, checked 23 Sep 2026.

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Claude Opus 4 is developed by Anthropic while DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp is developed by DeepSeek. Claude Opus 4 has a 200K token context window vs DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp's 1.0M. You can compare their actual outputs across 8 challenges on Rival to see how they differ in practice.

It depends on your use case. Claude Opus 4 and DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp each have strengths in different areas. Rival lets you compare their real outputs side-by-side across 8 challenges so you can judge which fits your needs best.

Claude Opus 4 costs $15/M input tokens and DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp costs $0.22/M input tokens. DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp is $14.78/M cheaper per input. Check their side-by-side outputs on Rival to see if the price difference is justified by quality.

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