Claude Haiku 4.5 (2025-10-01) vs DeepSeek V3

Name: DeepSeek V3
Brand: Azure AI Foundry
Price: 1.140000 USD

Claude Haiku 4.5 (2025-10-01) vs DeepSeek V3: DeepSeek V3 is cheaper by 12% on average. Claude Haiku 4.5 (2025-10-01) from Anthropic (200,000-token context, reasoning, tool calls) vs. DeepSeek V3 from Azure AI Foundry (128,000-token context). Use Agent Command Center to A/B both in shadow mode and pick the winner per workload.

Side-by-side cost

Live workload comparison

Same workload run through both models. The cheaper one is highlighted.

Input tokens / request3,000

0200,000

Output tokens / request400

064,000

Requests / day5,000

01,000,000

Claude Haiku 4.5 (2025-10-01)Cheaper

Anthropic

$761/mo

Input $1.00/M · Output $5.00/M

DeepSeek V3

Azure AI Foundry

$798/mo

Input $1.14/M · Output $4.56/M

At this workload, Claude Haiku 4.5 (2025-10-01) is 5% cheaper than DeepSeek V3 — a savings of $37.13/month ($446/year).

Crossover: Claude Haiku 4.5 (2025-10-01) is cheaper when output/input ≤ 0.32 (input-heavy workloads — RAG, retrieval). DeepSeek V3 wins above (long-form generation).

Current workload ratio: 0.13 (400/3000)

Production recipe — Agent Command Center

strategy: cost-optimized
primary:
  model: claude-haiku-4-5-20251001
  provider: anthropic
fallback:
  model: deepseek-v3
  provider: azure-ai-foundry
shadow: { sample_rate: 0.05 }   # mirror 5% of traffic to compare quality live

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	Claude Haiku 4.5 (2025-10-01) Anthropic	DeepSeek V3 Azure AI Foundry
Input price	$1.00/M	$1.14/M
Output price	$5.00/M	$4.56/M
Context window	200,000	128,000
Max output	64,000	8,192
Function calling	✓	—
Vision	✓	—
Audio input	—	—
Reasoning	✓	—
Prompt caching	✓	—
Structured output	✓	—
Pricing verified	May 12, 2026	May 12, 2026