Claude 3 Opus vs Deep Seek-R1: Benchmarks, Pricing, and Context Window Comparison
Claude 3 Opus vs Deep Seek-R1 compares provider, context window, token pricing, benchmark performance, and release timeline in one side-by-side view. Use this page to quickly identify which model is a better fit for your production constraints, quality targets, and estimated cost per request.
Verdict
Deep Seek-R1 has lower listed token pricing, while Claude 3 Opus can still be preferable if benchmark results better match your workload.
Author: Mirai Minds Research Team
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Overview
Claude 3 Opus was released 10 months before Deep Seek-R1.
 Claude 3 Opus | Deep Seek-R1 | |
|---|---|---|
Provider The entity that provides this model. | Anthropic | DeepSeek |
Input Context Window The number of tokens supported by the input context window. | 200K tokens | 128K tokens |
Maximum Output Tokens The number of tokens that can be generated by the model in a single request. | 4,096 tokens | 32K tokens |
Release Date When the model was first released. | Mar 04, 2024 over 1 yearago 2024-03-04 | Jan 21, 2025 over 1 year 2025-01-21 |
Leaderboard
| Claude 3 Opus | Deep Seek-R1 | |
|---|---|---|
Rank | 2 | Unknown |
Arena Elo | 1251 | Not specified. |
95% CI | +3/-3 | Not specified. |
Votes | 75684 | Not specified. |
License | Proprietary | Not specified. |
Knowledge Cutoff | 8/2023 8/2023 | Unknown |
Pricing
| Claude 3 Opus | Deep Seek-R1 | |
|---|---|---|
Input Cost of input data provided to the model. | $15.00 per million tokens | $0.55 per million tokens |
Output Cost of output tokens generated by the model. | $75.00 per million tokens | $2.19 per million tokens |
Benchmarks
Compare relevant benchmarks between Claude 3 Opus and Deep Seek-R1 Instruct.
| Claude 3 Opus | Deep Seek-R1 | |
|---|---|---|
MMLU Evaluating LLM knowledge acquisition in zero-shot and few-shot settings. | 88.2 (5-shot) | 90.8 (5-shot) |
MMMU A wide ranging multi-discipline and multimodal benchmark. | 59.4 | Benchmark not available. |
HellaSwag A challenging sentence completion benchmark. | 95.4 (10-shot) | Benchmark not available. |