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DeepSeek V4 Pro vs Claude Opus 4.8

Pricing, context window, capabilities, and release date — pulled from each provider's public docs. Both are available via the same AIgateway OpenAI-compatible endpoint; flip the model string to switch.

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 DeepSeek V4 Pro
deepseek/deepseek-v4-pro
Claude Opus 4.8
anthropic/claude-opus-4.8
ProviderDeepseekAnthropic
FamilyDeepSeekClaude 4
Modalitytexttext
Context window131,072 tok1,000,000 tok
Max output4,096 tok128,000 tok
Released2026-06-082026-05-28
Input price$1.74 /1M$5.00 /1M
Output price$3.48 /1M$25.00 /1M
Cache read$0.500 /1M
Toolsyes
Streamingyesyes
Visionyes
JSON modeyes
Reasoningyes
Prompt cachingyes
DeepSeek V4 Pro
deepseek/deepseek-v4-pro
Full spec →

DeepSeek V4 Pro is a high-capability reasoning model from DeepSeek, served via Fireworks infrastructure for production-grade inference.

Strengths
  • General-purpose chat
  • Long context
  • Tool use
Claude Opus 4.8
anthropic/claude-opus-4.8
Full spec →

Claude Opus 4.8 is Anthropic's most capable generally available model, with a step-change improvement in agentic coding over Claude Opus 4.7. It uses adaptive thinking to calibrate reasoning per task and supports a one million token context window at standard pricing.

Strengths
  • Anthropic's most capable model — #1 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index
  • Best computer-use / browser agent tested (84% on Online-Mind2Web)
  • Adaptive thinking — calibrates reasoning depth per task
  • ~4× less likely than Opus 4.7 to let code flaws pass unremarked
  • More efficient tool calling — fewer steps for the same result
SWITCH BETWEEN THEM

One key, both models, one line different.

# pip install aigateway-py openai
# aigateway-py: sub-accounts, evals, replays, jobs, webhook verify.
# openai SDK: chat/embeddings/images/audio — drop-in compat per our SDK's own guidance.
from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(
    base_url="https://api.aigateway.sh/v1",
    api_key="sk-aig-...",
)

# Try DeepSeek V4 Pro
client.chat.completions.create(
    model="deepseek/deepseek-v4-pro",
    messages=[{"role":"user","content":"hello"}],
)

# Try Claude Opus 4.8 — same client, same key
client.chat.completions.create(
    model="anthropic/claude-opus-4.8",
    messages=[{"role":"user","content":"hello"}],
)
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