Claude Opus 4.7 vs DeepSeek v3.2

Claude Opus 4.7 vs DeepSeek v3.2: DeepSeek v3.2 is cheaper by 93% on average. Claude Opus 4.7 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.

3,000
0200,000
400
0163,840
5,000
01,000,000
Azure AI Foundry
$3,805/mo
Input $5.00/M · Output $25.00/M
Azure AI Foundry
$367/mo
Input $0.580/M · Output $1.68/M
At this workload, DeepSeek v3.2 is 90% cheaper than Claude Opus 4.7 — 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-4-7
  provider: azure-ai-foundry
shadow: { sample_rate: 0.05 }   # mirror 5% of traffic to compare quality live
Claude Opus 4.7 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 128,000 163,840
Function calling
Vision
Audio input
Reasoning
Prompt caching
Structured output
Pricing verified May 12, 2026 May 12, 2026
Cheaper option
~93% cheaper than Claude Opus 4.7
Larger context
200,000 tokens
More capabilities
5 of 6 capability flags advertised

Benchmark comparison

Side-by-side public benchmark scores. Greener bar = winner.

Chatbot Arena ELOgeneral
Claude Opus 4.7
1,491
DeepSeek v3.2
GPQA Diamondreasoning
Claude Opus 4.7
94.2%
DeepSeek v3.2
67.9%
MMMUmultimodal
Claude Opus 4.7
91.5%
DeepSeek v3.2
SWE-bench Verifiedagent
Claude Opus 4.7
87.6%
DeepSeek v3.2
52.5%
HumanEvalcode
Claude Opus 4.7
DeepSeek v3.2
85.3%
MMLU-Proreasoning
Claude Opus 4.7
DeepSeek v3.2
80.0%
SWE-benchagent
Claude Opus 4.7
64.3%
DeepSeek v3.2
LiveCodeBenchcode
Claude Opus 4.7
DeepSeek v3.2
55.4%
Humanity's Last Examreasoning
Claude Opus 4.7
46.9%
DeepSeek v3.2