Compare DeepSeek V3.2 Exp 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
Claude Opus 4.8The model DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp is officially named deepseek-chat on the website. 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
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: $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: 0.2s 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 accepts 163,000 and Claude Opus 4.8 accepts 1,000,000 input tokens. Maximum output per request is 163,000 tokens on DeepSeek V3.2 Exp and 128,000 tokens on Claude Opus 4.8.
Claude Opus 4.8 at 82.6 tok/s and DeepSeek V3.2 Exp at 45.0 tok/s, measured as output throughput on AIHubMix — a separate metric from time to first token.
DeepSeek V3.2 Exp accepts text input and supports 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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