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CLAUDE HAIKU 5.5 VS DEEPSEEK V4 PRO
Anthropic vs DeepSeek, in USD per million tokens, cross-checked daily against the public pricing dataset. Same jobs, both meters running.
DeepSeek V4 Pro costs 4.1x more than Claude Haiku 5.5 for the same job — a 1,000-token prompt with a 3,000-token reply runs $0.0066 vs $0.0016. At 1,000 runs a day, that gap is $150.00 a month for identical traffic.
SIDE BY SIDE
| Claude Haiku 5.5 → | DeepSeek V4 Pro → | |
|---|---|---|
| Vendor | Anthropic | DeepSeek |
| Input / MTok | $0.100 | $0.660 |
| Output / MTok | $0.500 | $1.98 |
| Output multiple | 5.0x | 3.0x |
| 1K prompt + 3K reply | $0.0016 | $0.0066 |
SAME JOB, BOTH BILLS
| Scenario | Claude Haiku 5.5 | DeepSeek V4 Pro | Gap |
|---|---|---|---|
| A typical prompt | $0.0005 | $0.0020 | 4.1x |
| A 20-turn conversation | $0.0024 | $0.01 | 4.4x |
| Summarizing a 10-page document | $0.0024 | $0.01 | 4.8x |
| One agent run | $0.0062 | $0.03 | 4.0x |
| A code review request | $0.0020 | $0.0084 | 4.2x |
Output sizes use the same editorial ratios as the Burn Calculator. Estimates, not invoices — and price is not a benchmark: the cheaper model is only a bargain if it does the job.
SETTLE IT WITH YOUR OWN PROMPT
Paste a real prompt into the Burn Calculator and see what it costs on Claude Haiku 5.5, DeepSeek V4 Pro and the other 34 models on the board — plus how much of it is waste either way.