Compare Claude Haiku 5.5 from Anthropic and DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 from DeepSeek on key metrics including benchmarks, price, context length, and other model features. Access both models and hundreds of others through the AIHubMix API.
Claude Haiku 5.5
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017Claude Haiku 5.5 is Anthropic’s next-generation product, designed for high-throughput, cost-sensitive tasks. It can reliably handle fast and repetitive workloads such as summarization, context compression, database queries, and classification requests. It is also well suited to be used as a sub-agent model in programming workflows alongside Opus 5.5 and Sonnet 5.5.
The official latest version of DeepSeek V4.1 Flash has been upgraded to DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017. API usage and pricing remain unchanged—you can still access the latest model using deepseek-flash.
Prices are per million tokens. Time to First Token and throughput are rolling averages measured on AIHubMix.
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DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017: $0.434/M output tokens; Claude Haiku 5.5: $0.5/M. Use the cost calculator above to estimate your own workload.
Claude Haiku 5.5: 0.6s time to first token measured on AIHubMix; see the live performance charts above for how each model behaves across the day.
Claude Haiku 5.5 accepts 1,000,000 and DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 accepts 1,000,000 input tokens. Maximum output per request is 128,000 tokens on Claude Haiku 5.5 and 393,216 tokens on DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017.
Claude Haiku 5.5 at 187.4 tok/s and DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 at 125.7 tok/s, measured as output throughput on AIHubMix — a separate metric from time to first token.
Claude Haiku 5.5 accepts text and image input; DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 accepts text and image input.
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