Claude Haiku 5.5 vs DeepSeek V4 Pro: cost

For a typical support chatbot, Claude Haiku 5.5 is about 8.8× cheaper than DeepSeek V4 Pro ($38.51 vs $337 per month). Price is only one factor: test both on your own prompts before switching.

Claude Haiku 5.5 vs DeepSeek V4 Pro: prices and limits
Claude Haiku 5.5DeepSeek V4 Pro
Input /1M$0.10$1.32
Output /1M$0.50$3.96
Cached input /1M$0.01$0.044
Batch input /1M$0.05—
Batch output /1M$0.25—
Context window1,000,0001,000,000
Max input1,000,0001,000,000
Max output128,000393,216

Monthly cost by workload

Estimated monthly cost by workload (USD)
Scenario (per month)Claude Haiku 5.5DeepSeek V4 Pro
Customer support chatbot
5,000 req/day · 1,200 in · 400 out · cache 60%
$38.51$337
RAG over documents
2,000 req/day · 8,000 in · 600 out · cache 30%
$53.64$592
Coding agent
1,500 req/day · 25,000 in · 2,000 out · cache 80%
$79.31$693
Deep reasoning
800 req/day · 3,000 in · 6,000 out · cache 20%
$77.90$647
Batch processing
50,000 req/day · 1,500 in · 150 out · batch
$169$3,861