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API pricingUSD per 1M tokens · lower wins
Input priceWhat you pay for everything you send the model — your question, plus any documents or earlier conversation you include with it.
$3.00—
Output priceWhat you pay for the text the model writes back. It is normally the dearer half: producing an answer costs more than reading one.
$15.00—
Cached input priceA reduced rate for text you send over and over. If every request starts with the same instructions or the same document, the provider keeps a copy ready and charges less to read it again.
$0.30—
Cheapest inputLowest input rate across every provider on OpenRouter, the lab included. The cheapest endpoint may run a quantised build or a shorter context — see "Available from" on the model page.
$3.00Amazon Bedrock$0.05Relace
Cheapest outputLowest output rate across every provider on OpenRouter, the lab included. May come from a different provider than the cheapest input.
$15.00Amazon Bedrock$0.2352DeepInfra
$1,350Anthropic list price$34.30DeepInfra · fp8
These models have no shared benchmark scores.
Overview
CompanyAnthropicDeepSeek
Release dateSep 29 2025Oct 17 2026
AccessClosedOpen Weight
Model detailsView modelView model

Frequently asked questions

Claude Sonnet 4.5 and DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017 don't publish scores on any of the same benchmarks, so there's no direct head-to-head comparison. Only Claude Sonnet 4.5 has a verified first-party API price: $3.00 per million input tokens and $15.00 per million output tokens. No pay-as-you-go API rate is tracked for DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017. Claude Sonnet 4.5 shipped 383 days before DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017, so benchmark comparisons should account for the intervening progress.

Claude Sonnet 4.5 is closed, while DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017 is open weight.

Direct benchmark comparisons are unavailable — Claude Sonnet 4.5 and DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017 don't publish scores on any of the same benchmarks.