Anthropic vs DeepInfra
Same workloads, both price lists, refreshed daily. List prices tie on all 7 shared line items today, so the choice comes down to platform differences (routing, limits, tooling), summarized below.
Anthropic
Claude models via first-party API. Strong at coding, agents and long-context work.
- Frontier coding/agent models
- 200K+ context
- Prompt caching up to 90% off inputs
DeepInfra
Consistently the price floor for open-weight models: Llama, Qwen, DeepSeek at rock-bottom per-token rates with an OpenAI-compatible API and per-request GPU billing options..
- Among the cheapest open-model tokens anywhere
- OpenAI-compatible API
- Dedicated GPU deployments
Shared models, priced by both
List prices refreshed 2026-10-20 ยท input $/1M tokens| Model | Anthropic in/out | DeepInfra in/out | Cheaper input |
|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | $1.00 / $5.00 | $1.00 / $5.00 | tie |
| Claude Sonnet 5 | $2.00 / $10.00 | $2.00 / $10.00 | tie |
| Claude Sonnet 4.6 | $3.00 / $15.00 | $3.00 / $15.00 | tie |
| Claude Opus 5 | $5.00 / $25.00 | $5.00 / $25.00 | tie |
| Claude Opus 4.8 | $5.00 / $25.00 | $5.00 / $25.00 | tie |
| Claude Opus 4.7 | $5.00 / $25.00 | $5.00 / $25.00 | tie |
| Claude Fable 5 | $10.00 / $50.00 | $10.00 / $50.00 | tie |
Cheaper-on-count is a tally of listed prices, not a quality verdict: throughput, reliability and quantization differ between providers. Disclosure.