Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
DeepSeek VL2 offers 26.6K more tokens in context window than Claude Opus 4.1. Claude Opus 4.1 is $4719.50 cheaper per million tokens. Claude Opus 4.1 is available on 4 providers. Both models have their strengths depending on your specific coding needs.
Anthropic
Claude Opus 4.1 represents an iteration within the Claude 4 Opus line, built to deliver refined performance in complex reasoning and analysis tasks. Developed as part of Anthropic's flagship tier, it incorporates improvements to the foundational capabilities that define the Opus family of models.
DeepSeek
DeepSeek-VL2 was developed as a vision-language model, designed to handle both visual and textual inputs for multimodal understanding tasks. Built to extend DeepSeek's capabilities beyond text-only processing, it enables applications requiring integrated analysis of images and language.
7 months newer

DeepSeek VL2
DeepSeek
2024-12-13

Claude Opus 4.1
Anthropic
2025-08-05
Cost per million tokens (USD)

Claude Opus 4.1

DeepSeek VL2
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Available providers and their performance metrics

Claude Opus 4.1
Anthropic
Bedrock
ZeroEval

Claude Opus 4.1

DeepSeek VL2

Claude Opus 4.1

DeepSeek VL2

DeepSeek VL2
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