Models

Claude Haiku 4.5 vs DeepSeek V4 Flash

Compare Claude Haiku 4.5 from Anthropic and DeepSeek V4 Flash from DeepSeek on key metrics including benchmarks, price, context length, and other model features. Access both models and hundreds of others through the AIHubMix API.

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Claude Haiku 4.5
Anthropic · text, image, pdf → text

Claude Haiku 4.5 is a fast, affordable, and highly capable AI model, excelling at coding and agentic tasks. Its combination of speed and low cost makes it ideal for powering real-time applications like chatbots, high-volume free services, and specialized "sub-agents" for complex tasks in coding, finance, and research. It can also handle common business tasks like creating office documents and assisting with strategy and analysis.

Input$1 /M
Output$5 /M
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DeepSeek V4 Flash
DeepSeek · text → text

DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423 is DeepSeek's efficiency-optimized Mixture-of-Experts text model, designed for fast inference and workflows requiring tool use, function calling, and structured outputs. It features 284B total parameters with 13B activated parameters and supports a 1M-token context window with cost-effective pricing.

Input$0.464 /M
Output$0.928 /M
Cache read$0.0039 /M

Pricing & Specifications

Prices are per million tokens. Time to First Token and throughput are rolling averages measured on AIHubMix.

Claude Haiku 4.5
DeepSeek V4 Flash
Input /M
$1
$0.464
Output /M
$5
$0.928
Cache read /M
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$0.0039
Context length
200,000
1,000,000
Max output
64,000
0
Time to First Token
2.5 s
0.7 s
Throughput
16.3 tok/s
59.0 tok/s
Modalities
textimagepdf
text
Supported Parameters
thinkingtoolsfunction callingstructured outputs
toolsfunction callingstructured outputs
API Formats
Released
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Promotional prices show the discounted rate; see each model page for promotion windows.

Activity Past 30 Days

Daily traffic served through AIHubMix — how demand for each model is trending.

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Tokens / day

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Requests / day

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Performance Past 3 Days

Measured on real AIHubMix traffic, hourly buckets. Gaps mean no traffic in that hour.

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Throughput (tok/s)

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TTFT (s)

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Uptime (%)

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LMArena Benchmarks

LMArena ratings by capability (Bradley-Terry, commonly called Elo). Higher is better.

Text
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1360140014401480
Overall
13921431
Coding
14501452
Math
13931428
Instruction following
14121420
Longer query
14271435
Chinese
14221467
English
14131439

Source: LMArena (arena.ai) leaderboard, imported by AIHubMix. Models without published ratings are omitted per chart.

Cost calculator

Estimate your monthly bill for the same workload on each model.

DeepSeek V4 Flash
$41.76 /mo
Claude Haiku 4.5
$135 /mo

Monthly = daily × 30. Discounted rates applied where a promotion is active.

FAQ

Which is cheaper: Claude Haiku 4.5, DeepSeek V4 Flash?

DeepSeek V4 Flash: $0.928/M output tokens; Claude Haiku 4.5: $5/M. Use the cost calculator above to estimate your own workload.

How do their coding arena scores compare?

DeepSeek V4 Flash: 1452; Claude Haiku 4.5: 1450 (LMArena coding leaderboard).

Which responds faster?

DeepSeek V4 Flash: 0.7s time to first token measured on AIHubMix; see the live performance charts above for how each model behaves across the day.

How large is each context window?

Claude Haiku 4.5 accepts 200,000 and DeepSeek V4 Flash accepts 1,000,000 input tokens.

Which one generates tokens faster?

DeepSeek V4 Flash at 59.0 tok/s and Claude Haiku 4.5 at 16.3 tok/s, measured as output throughput on AIHubMix — a separate metric from time to first token.

What inputs and capabilities does each model support?

Claude Haiku 4.5 accepts text, image and PDF input and supports thinking, tool calling, function calling and structured outputs; DeepSeek V4 Flash accepts text input and supports tool calling, function calling and structured outputs.

Can I call Claude Haiku 4.5 and DeepSeek V4 Flash with the same API key?

Yes. AIHubMix serves every model on this page behind one OpenAI-compatible endpoint, so switching between them is a one-line change to the model field — no second account, key or SDK.

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