Claude Opus 4.7 vs DeepSeek R1
Opus for agentic reliability and compliance; R1 for reasoning at near-zero cost.
Claude Opus 4.7
Anthropic's flagship at the time of this entry: extended thinking on, 1M-token context, the most patient of the frontier models.
Use this when
Production agentic loops, compliance requirements, Anthropic ecosystem.
Full profile →DeepSeek R1
The open-weights reasoning model that printed an industry shockwave. Trained at a fraction of frontier-lab costs.
Use this when
Cost-sensitive reasoning, open weights required, self-hosting.
Full profile →Cost comparison
Opus $15/$75 per M; R1 free self-hosted (~$2/M via services).