Compare DeepSeek V3.2 Exp Thinking from DeepSeek and Claude Opus 4.8 from Anthropic on key metrics including benchmarks, price, context length, and other model features. Access both models and hundreds of others through the AIHubMix API.
DeepSeek V3.2 Exp Thinking
Claude Opus 4.8The model DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp-Think is officially named deepseek-reasoner. It is an experimental version. As an intermediate step towards the next-generation architecture, V3.2-Exp introduces DeepSeek Sparse Attention (a sparse attention mechanism) based on V3.1-Terminus, exploring and validating exploratory optimizations for training and inference efficiency on long texts.
Claude Opus 4.8 is Anthropic’s newest and most powerful publicly available model. It is suitable for the most complex tasks. It is Anthropic’s strongest model for complex reasoning, long-horizon agent programming, and highly autonomous work.claude-opus-4-8 does not display thought content by default; you need to set the additional parameter "display": "summarized" to enable it
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DeepSeek V3.2 Exp Thinking: $0.411/M output tokens; Claude Opus 4.8: $25/M. Use the cost calculator above to estimate your own workload.
DeepSeek V3.2 Exp Thinking: 0.7s time to first token measured on AIHubMix; see the live performance charts above for how each model behaves across the day.
DeepSeek V3.2 Exp Thinking accepts 163,840 and Claude Opus 4.8 accepts 1,000,000 input tokens. Maximum output per request is 64,000 tokens on DeepSeek V3.2 Exp Thinking and 128,000 tokens on Claude Opus 4.8.
Claude Opus 4.8 at 82.6 tok/s and DeepSeek V3.2 Exp Thinking at 59.0 tok/s, measured as output throughput on AIHubMix — a separate metric from time to first token.
DeepSeek V3.2 Exp Thinking accepts text input and supports thinking, tool calling, function calling and structured outputs; Claude Opus 4.8 accepts text, image and PDF input and supports thinking, tool calling, function calling and structured outputs.
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