Models

Claude Opus 4.8 vs DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 70B

Compare Claude Opus 4.8 from Anthropic and DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 70B 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 Opus 4.8
Anthropic · text, image, pdf → text

Claude Opus 4.5 is Anthropic’s latest frontier reasoning model, optimized for complex engineering, agentic workflows, and long-horizon computer use. It features strong multimodal capabilities, improved resistance to prompt injection, and a new Verbosity parameter to control token efficiency. With advanced tool use, extended context, and multi-agent support, Opus 4.5 excels in autonomous research, debugging, planning, and spreadsheet/browser operations.

Input$5 /M
Output$25 /M
Cache read$0.5 /M
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DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 70B
DeepSeek · text → text

Provided by Groq, the DeepSeek-R1-Distill model is fine-tuned based on an open-source model, using samples generated by DeepSeek-R1. We have made slight modifications to their configurations and tokenizers. Please use our settings to run these models.

Input$0.8 /M
Output$1.6 /M

Pricing & Specifications

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

Claude Opus 4.8
DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 70B
Input /M
$5
$0.8
Output /M
$25
$1.6
Cache read /M
$0.5
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Context length
1,000,000
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Max output
128,000
0
Time to First Token
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Throughput
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Modalities
textimagepdf
text
Supported Parameters
thinkingtoolsfunction callingstructured outputs
thinking
API Formats
Released
May 28, 2026
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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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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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Cost calculator

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

DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 70B
$72.00 /mo
Claude Opus 4.8
$675 /mo

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

FAQ

Which is cheaper: Claude Opus 4.8, DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 70B?

DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 70B: $1.6/M output tokens; Claude Opus 4.8: $25/M. Use the cost calculator above to estimate your own workload.

What inputs and capabilities does each model support?

Claude Opus 4.8 accepts text, image and PDF input and supports thinking, tool calling, function calling and structured outputs; DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 70B accepts text input and supports thinking.

Can I call Claude Opus 4.8 and DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 70B 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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