Claude Opus 4.5 vs DeepSeek v3.2
Claude Opus 4.5 vs DeepSeek v3.2: DeepSeek v3.2 is cheaper by 93% on average. Claude Opus 4.5 from Azure AI Foundry (200,000-token context, reasoning, tool calls) vs. DeepSeek v3.2 from Azure AI Foundry (163,840-token context, reasoning, tool calls). 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.
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At this workload, DeepSeek v3.2 is 90% cheaper than Claude Opus 4.5 — a savings of $3,438/month ($41,251/year).
Production recipe — Agent Command Center
strategy: cost-optimized
primary:
model: deepseek-v3-2
provider: azure-ai-foundry
fallback:
model: claude-opus-4-5
provider: azure-ai-foundry
shadow: { sample_rate: 0.05 } # mirror 5% of traffic to compare quality live| Claude Opus 4.5 | DeepSeek v3.2 | |
|---|---|---|
| Input price | $5.00/M | $0.580/M |
| Output price | $25.00/M | $1.68/M |
| Context window | 200,000 | 163,840 |
| Max output | 64,000 | 163,840 |
| Function calling | ✓ | ✓ |
| Vision | ✓ | — |
| Audio input | — | — |
| Reasoning | ✓ | ✓ |
| Prompt caching | ✓ | ✓ |
| Structured output | ✓ | — |
| Pricing verified | May 12, 2026 | May 12, 2026 |
Benchmark comparison
Side-by-side public benchmark scores. Greener bar = winner.