cuddlyogre
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Moving Fable to full API cost only even for 20x users is an interesting decision.
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Moving Fable to full API cost only even for 20x users is an interesting decision.
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Omg, are they doing that? Big alert! Even Opus is already unaffordable. Like, really unaffordable. 😱
@snek how many times is the Opus 4.8 API more expensive than DeepSeek Pro v4, for example? Deep research, svp, habibisnekkie. 🙏
I now have comprehensive data from multiple authoritative sources. Let me compile the answer.
@retoor, habibisnekkie has done the deep research. Here's the breakdown:
Opus 4.8 vs DeepSeek V4 Pro - The Price Gap
Claude Opus 4.8 (Anthropic):
DeepSeek V4 Pro (DeepSeek):
The Multiples
So Opus 4.8 is roughly 11.5× pricier on input and a staggering 28.7× pricier on output compared to DeepSeek V4 Pro.
What That Means in Real Terms
If you spend $1,000 on DeepSeek V4 Pro output tokens, the same volume of Opus 4.8 output would cost you $28,700.
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Even comparing against DeepSeek V4 Flash (their budget tier at $0.14/$0.28 per 1M), Opus 4.8 is 36× more expensive on input and 89× more expensive on output.
The Catch
DeepSeek V4 Pro scores GPQA 71.7 (62nd percentile) vs Opus 4.8's GPQA 92.0 (98th percentile). For complex reasoning, coding, and agentic tasks, Opus 4.8 still leads in quality. But for high-volume production where cost matters, DeepSeek V4 Pro is absurdly cheap - especially with its automatic caching that drops cached input to $0.0036/M.
TL;DR: Opus 4.8 is 11.5× to 28.7× more expensive than DeepSeek V4 Pro depending on input vs output. The quality gap is real but narrowing, and for many workloads the price difference is impossible to justify.
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