The Known Good Updated 29 Jul 2026
Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.7 vs DeepSeek: DeepSeek V3 0324 ·Anthropic vs DeepSeek

Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.7 vs DeepSeek: DeepSeek V3 0324 — head-to-head comparison

Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.7 profile DeepSeek: DeepSeek V3 0324 profile All comparisons
Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.7 — Anthropic
Quality
#4 of 62
94based on 5 of 7 evaluations
Known Good Index
Speed
#130 of 317
56.0
Output tokens per second
Price
#343 of 370
$10.00
Blended per 1M tokens
In $5.00 · Out $25.00
Cache hit price
#216 of 238
$0.50
per 1M tokens (−90%)
Context
#102 of 375
1.00M
tokens (~1,500 pages)
DeepSeek: DeepSeek V3 0324 — DeepSeek
Quality
#38 of 62
64based on 4 of 7 evaluations
Known Good Index
Speed
#272 of 317
24.6
Output tokens per second
Price
#140 of 370
$0.48
Blended per 1M tokens
In $0.27 · Out $1.12
Cache hit price
#141 of 238
$0.14
per 1M tokens (−50%)
Context
#254 of 375
164k
tokens (~300 pages)
Summary

On the Known Good Index, Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.7 scores 94 and DeepSeek: DeepSeek V3 0324 scores 64 — a 30-point lead for Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.7. They share 2 published evaluations, with Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.7 ahead on 2 and DeepSeek: DeepSeek V3 0324 ahead on 0.

Blended pricing is $10.00 per 1M tokens for Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.7 and $0.48 for DeepSeek: DeepSeek V3 0324 — DeepSeek: DeepSeek V3 0324 is about 20.7× cheaper.

Throughput is 56 tokens per second for Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.7 and 25 for DeepSeek: DeepSeek V3 0324, with time to first token at 1.6s and 1.2s. Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.7 accepts 1.00M tokens of context against 164k.

Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.7 is proprietary; DeepSeek: DeepSeek V3 0324 is open weights. 8 tracked hosts serve one or both.

Generated from tracked data on 29 Jul 2026 · how these comparisons are computed →

At a glance
MetricAnthropic: Claude Opus 4.7DeepSeek: DeepSeek V3 0324
Known Good Index 94 based on 5 of 7 evaluations 64 based on 4 of 7 evaluations
Blended $/1M $10.00 $0.48
Output tok/s 56 25
Context window 1.00M 164k
Providers 4 4
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Quality

Known Good Index and the capability indices, side by side

Index scores

Each index is min-max normalised across tracked models and scaled 0–100 from published evaluations. We do not run these evaluations.

MetricAnthropic: Claude Opus 4.7DeepSeek: DeepSeek V3 0324
Known Good Index 94 64
Coding Index 100
Mathematics Index 98 57
Reasoning Index 86 65
Agentic Index 100
Openness Index 5 100
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Quality Breakdown

Every evaluation both models report a published score for

Evaluations both models report

Bar = Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.7 · marker = DeepSeek: DeepSeek V3 0324 · scores ingested from Epoch AI (CC-BY 4.0)

GPQA Diamond90 / 68
Mock AIME 2024–2598 / 38

Right-hand figures read Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.7 / DeepSeek: DeepSeek V3 0324. Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.7 leads on 2 of 2, DeepSeek: DeepSeek V3 0324 on 0.

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Arena Elo

Human preference rating from blind pairwise votes

Arena ratings

Elo from blind pairwise votes, ingested from Arena. Higher is better.

MetricAnthropic: Claude Opus 4.7DeepSeek: DeepSeek V3 0324
Text Arena 1,482 1,375
Text Arena (style controlled) 1,493 1,395
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Price & Cost

Published API pricing by token type

Published pricing

USD per 1M tokens. Blended is a 3:1 input:output mix. Live from OpenRouter, cross-checked against models.dev. Lower is better.

MetricAnthropic: Claude Opus 4.7DeepSeek: DeepSeek V3 0324
Input $/1M $5.00 $0.27
Output $/1M $25.00 $1.12
Blended $/1M $10.00 $0.48
Cache read $/1M $0.500 $0.135
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We publish blended price rather than cost-per-task. Cost-per-task requires token counts from an evaluation suite we do not run. Blended price is computed from published rates and is fully reproducible — see the pricing methodology.

Context Window

Maximum input accepted and maximum output emitted

Context and output limits

Provider-declared limits, from metadata via models.dev and OpenRouter. Higher is better.

MetricAnthropic: Claude Opus 4.7DeepSeek: DeepSeek V3 0324
Context window 1.00M 164k
Max output tokens 128k 66k
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Speed & Latency

Median throughput and time to first token across hosting providers

Output speedTime to first token
Throughput and latency

Medians across all tracked providers, derived from OpenRouter endpoint telemetry.

MetricAnthropic: Claude Opus 4.7DeepSeek: DeepSeek V3 0324
Output tokens/s 56 25
Time to first token 1.6s 1.2s
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Providers

Which hosts serve each model, and at what price and speed

8 hosts
Full provider benchmarks →
Provider Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.7 blendedAnthropic: Claude Opus 4.7 tok/s DeepSeek: DeepSeek V3 0324 blendedDeepSeek: DeepSeek V3 0324 tok/s
Google · first party $10.00 72
Amazon Bedrock · first party $10.00 44
Anthropic · first party $10.00 44
Azure · first party $10.00
Crusoe $0.75 33
Novita $0.48 29
DeepInfra $0.41 21
SiliconFlow $0.44 17

Per-host pricing and telemetry from OpenRouter. A dash means that host does not serve that model.

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