Is Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.6 or DeepSeek: R1 cheaper?

DeepSeek: R1 is cheaper on output tokens ($2.50 vs $25.00 per 1M).

Which has the larger context window, Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.6 or DeepSeek: R1?

Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.6 has the larger context window (1M tokens).

Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.6 vs DeepSeek: R1

DeepSeek: R1 is cheaper on output tokens, while Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.6 offers a larger context window. Choose Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.6 or DeepSeek: R1 based on the trade-off between cost, context, and the benchmarks that matter for your use case.

Spec	Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.6	DeepSeek: R1
Provider	Kilo Gateway	Kilo Gateway
Input / 1M tokens	$5.00	$0.70
Output / 1M tokens	$25.00	$2.50
Context window	1M	64K
Parameters	—	671B
Open weights	No	Yes
Released	Feb 2026	Jan 2025

Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.6 details →DeepSeek: R1 details →

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