Claude Opus 4.8 (Max) vs DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 (Non-reasoning)

Which is better for the money: Claude Opus 4.8 (Max) by Anthropic or DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 (Non-reasoning) by DeepSeek? Intelligence, total benchmark cost, and end-to-end time from Artificial Analysis & other sources, snapshot 2026-10-24.

Trade-off

AnthropicClaude Opus 4.8 (Max)Off the frontier

Intelligence: 41.80
Total cost: $6874

DeepSeekDeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 (Non-reasoning)Off the frontier

Intelligence: 20.40
Total cost: $451

Verdict

Depends on your budget

Claude Opus 4.8 (Max) scores 21.4 points higher (41.8 vs 20.4) but costs 15× as much to run the benchmark ($6874 vs $451; flagship vs mid-range cost classes). They are not alternatives at one budget: pick Claude Opus 4.8 (Max) when you need intelligence above 20.4, and DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 (Non-reasoning) when 20.4 is enough.

Metric	Claude Opus 4.8 (Max)	DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 (Non-reasoning)	Difference
Intelligence (higher is better)	41.8	20.4	−51.2% DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 … is 51.2% less intelligent
Total AA cost (lower is better)	$6,873.86	$450.76	−93.4% DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 … is 93.4% cheaper
End-to-end time (lower is better)	36.92s	6.81s	−81.6% DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 … is 81.6% faster
Price per 1M tokens (in / out)	$5.00 / $25.0	$1.32 / $3.96
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DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 (Non-reasoning) vs Claude Opus 4.8 (Max): 51.2% less intelligence, 93.4% less cost to run the AA benchmark, and 81.6% faster end-to-end.

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Today's Pareto frontier

Against the frontier

Claude Opus 4.8 (Max) is off the frontier: at the same or lower cost, Claude Opus 5.5 (Xhigh, Default Fallback) scores 56.00 for $4057.
DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 (Non-reasoning) is off the frontier: at the same or lower cost, GPT-6.1 Sol (Medium) scores 47.80 for $361.

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