Claude 3 Haiku vs DeepSeek V3 0324

Claude 3 Haiku at $0.287 in and $1.44 out and DeepSeek V3 0324 at $0.310 in and $1.29 out — per million tokens, from the same wallet.

Claude 3 Haiku

Anthropic

0.26¢

for a client proposal

$0.287 in · $1.44 out / 1M

200K context · released March 2024

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DeepSeek V3 0324

DeepSeek

0.26¢

for a client proposal

$0.310 in · $1.29 out / 1M

164K context · released March 2025

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Asking all both at once — identical prompt, identical context — costs about 0.52¢ for a typical client proposal.

At a glance

Cheapest input: Claude 3 Haiku at $0.287 per million tokens.
Cheapest output: DeepSeek V3 0324 at $1.29 per million tokens.
Largest context: Claude 3 Haiku at 200K tokens — about 290 pages.

Cost per task

Estimated totals at the rates above. Solid bar is input, lighter bar is output.

Quick code fix

2K in · 500 out

Claude 3 Haiku

0.13¢

DeepSeek V3 0324

0.13¢

Draft a client proposal from notes

5K in · 800 out

Claude 3 Haiku

0.26¢

DeepSeek V3 0324

0.26¢

Context-heavy session (Alyph workspace)

155K in · 4K out

Claude 3 Haiku

$0.05

DeepSeek V3 0324

$0.05

Analyze a 50-page legal contract

35K in · 1K out

Claude 3 Haiku

1.1¢

DeepSeek V3 0324

1.2¢

Large architecture refactor

250K in · 3K out

Claude 3 Haiku

needs 250K ctx

DeepSeek V3 0324

needs 250K ctx

Solid part of each bar is input tokens, the lighter part is output. Models that don’t fit a task are marked instead of priced.

Cost vs Token Amount

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80% Input20% Output

Claude 3 Haiku

DeepSeek V3 0324

Adjust the ratio slider to change how output tokens influence the final price for equivalent workloads.

Pricing

Claude 3 Haiku

DeepSeek V3 0324

Input / 1M tokens

$0.287

$0.310

Output / 1M tokens

$1.44

$1.29

Cached input / 1M

$0.035

$0.155

Web search

1.1¢ / search

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Specs

Claude 3 Haiku

DeepSeek V3 0324

Provider

Anthropic

DeepSeek

Released

March 2024

March 2025

Context window

200K

164K

Max output

66K

Input

Text and Images

Text

Output

Text

Reasoning

Answers directly

Knowledge cutoff

2023-08-31

2024-07-31

Try it with real numbers

2K tokens in · 500 tokens out.

Claude 3 Haiku

Anthropic

0.13¢

for this task

44% input · 56% output

Full pricing →

DeepSeek V3 0324

DeepSeek

0.13¢

for this task

49% input · 51% output

Full pricing →

All 2, same prompt and context: 0.26¢. That is the entire cost of the comparison.

Your $5 welcome credit covers about 1,954 of these.

Which should you pick?

For long documents, Claude 3 Haiku has the largest context window here — 200K tokens.

On price, DeepSeek V3 0324 is the cheapest of the two on a typical task, at about 0.26¢.

For images or files, Claude 3 Haiku can read them directly; DeepSeek V3 0324 is text-only.

Or don’t pick. Send the identical prompt to all both, read the answers side by side, and keep the winner. How to run a fair bake-off →

Claude 3 Haiku pricing →DeepSeek V3 0324 pricing →Add Lyria 3 Clip Preview Add Grok 4.20

Questions, answered

Which is cheaper, Claude 3 Haiku or DeepSeek V3 0324?

On a typical client proposal (5K tokens in, 800 out): DeepSeek V3 0324 at 0.26¢; Claude 3 Haiku at 0.26¢. Long prompts can change the order when long-context rates apply.

Which has the largest context window?

Claude 3 Haiku — 200K tokens, about 290 pages.

Can I run Claude 3 Haiku and DeepSeek V3 0324 side by side on Alyph?

Yes — that is what Alyph is built for: the identical prompt with identical context to all 2, answers rendered side by side, billed from one wallet. This exact combination costs about 0.52¢ for a typical task.

Ask both at once

Identical prompt, identical context, answers side by side — about 0.52¢ for a typical client proposal. Free to start, with $5 of credit.