Compare Claude Opus 4.8 from Anthropic and DeepSeek V3.2 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 Opus 4.8
DeepSeek V3.2Claude 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
DeepSeek-V3.2 is an efficient large language model equipped with DeepSeek Sparse Attention and reinforced reasoning performance, but its core strength lies in powerful agentic capabilities—enabled by large-scale task-synthesis that tightly integrates reasoning with real-world tool use, delivering robust, compliant, and generalizable agent behaviour. Users can toggle deeper reasoning through the reasoning_enabled switch.
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DeepSeek V3.2: $0.453/M output tokens; Claude Opus 4.8: $25/M. Use the cost calculator above to estimate your own workload.
Claude Opus 4.8: 1527; DeepSeek V3.2: 1470 (LMArena coding leaderboard).
DeepSeek V3.2: 0.7s time to first token measured on AIHubMix; see the live performance charts above for how each model behaves across the day.
Claude Opus 4.8 accepts 1,000,000 and DeepSeek V3.2 accepts 163,840 input tokens. Maximum output per request is 128,000 tokens on Claude Opus 4.8 and 64,000 tokens on DeepSeek V3.2.
Claude Opus 4.8 at 82.6 tok/s and DeepSeek V3.2 at 38.0 tok/s, measured as output throughput on AIHubMix — a separate metric from time to first token.
Claude Opus 4.8 accepts text, image and PDF input and supports thinking, tool calling, function calling and structured outputs; DeepSeek V3.2 accepts text input and supports tool calling, function calling, structured outputs and thinking.
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