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Claude Opus 4.1vsDeepSeek R1
Claude Opus 4.1 leads 3 of 3 shared benchmarks. Claude Opus 4.1 has the larger context window (200K tokens).
Benchmarks from cited public sources; pricing from official pages; status from official provider feeds.
Shared benchmarks
3 – 0
Claude Opus 4.1 leads
Cheaper per token
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list price, input + output
Larger context
Claude Opus 4.1
200K tokens
Provider uptime (30d)
100% · 100%
Anthropic · DeepSeek
Claude Opus 4.1
Anthropic · released 2025-08-05
textvision
DeepSeek R1
DeepSeek · released 2025-01-20
text
- Context
- 128K
- Max out
- 33K
- Input /1M
- —
- Output /1M
- —
- Cached /1M
- —
- Scores
- 8 · 7 core
Quality
Benchmark matrix
3 shared · 3 only Claude Opus 4.1 · 4 only DeepSeek R1| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.1 | DeepSeek R1 | Δ | Edge |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reported by both · 3 | ||||
| SWE-bench Verified | 74.5% ↗ | 49.2% ↗ | +25.3 pt | Claude Opus 4.1 |
| GPQA Diamond | 77.3% ↗epoch | 71.5% ↗ | +5.8 pt | Claude Opus 4.1 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 (Epoch AI run) | 68.9% ↗epoch | 53.3% ↗epoch | +15.6 pt | Claude Opus 4.1 |
| Only Claude Opus 4.1 reports · 3 | ||||
| FrontierMath Tier 4 v2 (Epoch AI run) | 2.4% ↗epoch | not reported | — | — |
| FrontierMath Tiers 1-3 v2 (Epoch AI run) | 12.6% ↗epoch | not reported | — | — |
| SWE-bench Verified (Epoch AI run) | 73.3% ↗epoch | not reported | — | — |
| Only DeepSeek R1 reports · 4 | ||||
| MMLU | not reported | 90.8% ↗ | — | — |
| MMLU-Pro | not reported | 84% ↗ | — | — |
| AIME 2025 | not reported | 70% ↗matharena | — | — |
| LMArena Elo | not reported | 1372.6 ↗ | — | — |
Scores tagged "epoch" or "matharena" are independent runs, used only where the lab has not published its own; ⚠ marks rows MathArena flags as released after the competition. Higher is better on every row. Δ is Claude Opus 4.1 minus DeepSeek R1 in the benchmark's own unit. "Not reported" means the lab has not published that figure; it is not a zero. ↗ opens the source.
Specs & pricing
Side by side
Official pricing pages and model cards| Spec | Claude Opus 4.1 | DeepSeek R1 | Edge |
|---|---|---|---|
| Context window | 200K tokens | 128K tokens | Claude Opus 4.1 |
| Max output | 32K tokens | 33K tokens | DeepSeek R1 |
| Input price / 1M | $15 ↗ | — | — |
| Output price / 1M | $75 ↗ | — | — |
| Cached input / 1M | $1.5 ↗ | — | — |
| Input + output / 1M Lower is cheaper. List prices; batch, tool and regional fees excluded. | $90 | — | — |
| Modalities | text · vision | text | Claude Opus 4.1 |
| Released | 2025-08-05 | 2025-01-20 | — |
| Cited benchmark scores | 6 | 8 | — |
Reliability
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