claude-opus-4-6 vs deepseek-v4-flash API price comparison

Compare claude-opus-4-6 vs deepseek-v4-flash cheapest routes, input/output prices, shared platforms, cache coverage, and crawl freshness.

Latest crawl: Sep 6, 2026 路 shared platforms: 9

Price verdict

deepseek-v4-flash is about 63% cheaper than claude-opus-4-6 on the cheapest listed combined route, making it the first cost-sensitive option to inspect.

claude-opus-4-6 cheapest

0.89 USD/M tokens

Now Coding

deepseek-v4-flash cheapest

0.33 USD/M tokens

Xcode Best

Platform coverage

21/12

Listed platform count for each model.

Cache coverage

90%/100%

Share of routes that publish cache read or write prices.

Model snapshots

claude-opus-4-6
Anthropic 路 chat

Cheapest combined route: Now Coding at 0.89 USD/M tokens.

Lowest input: 0.15 USD/M tokens 路 lowest output: 0.74 USD/M tokens
deepseek-v4-flash
DeepSeek 路 chat

Cheapest combined route: Xcode Best at 0.33 USD/M tokens.

Lowest input: 0.11 USD/M tokens 路 lowest output: 0.22 USD/M tokens

Shared platform comparison

Platform	claude-opus-4-6	deepseek-v4-flash	Lower route
Xcode Best	1.56 USD/M tokens	0.33 USD/M tokens	deepseek-v4-flash
AIHubMix	30.00 USD/M tokens	0.42 USD/M tokens	deepseek-v4-flash
Atlas Cloud	30.00 USD/M tokens	0.42 USD/M tokens	deepseek-v4-flash
DMXAPI	30.00 USD/M tokens	0.60 USD/M tokens	deepseek-v4-flash
Qianduoduo	24.00 USD/M tokens	0.78 USD/M tokens	deepseek-v4-flash
Crazyrouter	30.00 USD/M tokens	0.90 USD/M tokens	deepseek-v4-flash
17NAS	26.40 USD/M tokens	1.14 USD/M tokens	deepseek-v4-flash
ClaudeCN	30.00 USD/M tokens	10.80 USD/M tokens	deepseek-v4-flash
Yunwu	30.00 USD/M tokens	12.00 USD/M tokens	deepseek-v4-flash

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