Compare AI models

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.
$2.00—
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.
$10.00—
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.
$0.20—
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.
$2.00Amazon Bedrock$0.15DeepSeek
Cheapest outputLowest output rate across every provider on OpenRouter, the lab included. May come from a different provider than the cheapest input.
$10.00Amazon Bedrock$0.60DeepSeek
$900Anthropic list price$60.00DeepSeek
Benchmarks
Terminal-Bench 4.0Agentic terminal coding — Can the AI work in a command-line terminal — running commands and finishing technical setup tasks the way a developer would? Version 4.0 recalibrated how much time, CPU and memory each task gets, removed eight tasks and fixed nineteen, so fewer runs fail for reasons that have nothing to do with the model. Scores are not comparable with earlier versions. Higher is better.
12.42%42.3%
Humanity's Last Exam · no toolsMultidisciplinary reasoning — Humanity's Last Exam — extremely hard expert questions across many subjects, written so you can't just look up the answer. “No tools” means the AI answers on its own. Higher is better.
43.2%42.6%
Overview
CompanyAnthropicDeepSeek
Release dateJun 30 2026Oct 17 2026
AccessClosedOpen Weight
Model detailsView modelView model

Frequently asked questions

Claude Sonnet 5 and DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017 are evenly matched across the 2 benchmarks they both report (Terminal-Bench 4.0, Humanity's Last Exam). Only Claude Sonnet 5 has a verified first-party API price: $2.00 per million input tokens and $10.00 per million output tokens. No pay-as-you-go API rate is tracked for DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017. Claude Sonnet 5 shipped 109 days before DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017, so benchmark comparisons should account for the intervening progress.

Claude Sonnet 5 is closed, while DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017 is open weight.

On Terminal-Bench 4.0, DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017 leads at 42.3% vs Claude Sonnet 5 at 12.42%. On Humanity's Last Exam · no tools, Claude Sonnet 5 leads at 43.2% vs DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017 at 42.6%.