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Claude Haiku 4.5 vs DeepSeek R2

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Anthropic · 200k context | DeepSeek · 128k context

Pricing Comparison

Metric	Claude Haiku 4.5	DeepSeek R2
Input / 1M tokens	$1	$0.8
Output / 1M tokens	$5	$3.2
Cached input / 1M	$0.1	$0.2
Context window	200k	128k
Provider	Anthropic	DeepSeek

Cost Calculator

Input tokens

Output tokens

Requests/day

💰 DeepSeek R2 saves $330.00/month (31% cheaper)

AClaude Haiku 4.5

Per request$0.003500

Daily$35.00

Monthly$1,050.00

Yearly$12,775.00

DDeepSeek R2CHEAPER

Per request$0.002400

Daily$24.00

Monthly$720.00

Yearly$8,760.00

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Choose Claude Haiku 4.5 when…

✓ Larger context window (200k vs 128k) — better for long documents
✓ Cheaper cached price ($0.1 vs $0.2/1M)
✓ Optimized for: Fast responses

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Choose DeepSeek R2 when…

✓ Cheaper for RAG & document retrieval (lower input cost)
✓ 20% cheaper per input token
✓ Cheaper for generation-heavy workloads (lower output cost)
✓ Optimized for: Advanced reasoning at low cost

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