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Claude Opus 4.6 vs DeepSeek Coder 33B Instruct

A detailed comparison of pricing, benchmarks, and capabilities

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Key Takeaways

Claude Opus 4.6 wins:

  • Larger context window
  • Faster response time
  • Higher intelligence benchmark
  • Better at coding
  • Supports vision
  • Has reasoning mode
  • Supports tool calls

DeepSeek Coder 33B Instruct wins:

  • Cheaper input tokens
  • Cheaper output tokens
Price Advantage
DeepSeek Coder 33B Instruct
Benchmark Advantage
Claude Opus 4.6
Context Window
Claude Opus 4.6
Speed
Claude Opus 4.6

Pricing Comparison

Benchmark Comparison

Context & Performance

Capabilities

Feature Comparison

FeatureClaude Opus 4.6DeepSeek Coder 33B Instruct
Vision (Image Input)
Tool/Function Calls
Reasoning Mode
Audio Input
Audio Output
PDF Input
Prompt Caching
Web Search

License & Release

PropertyClaude Opus 4.6DeepSeek Coder 33B Instruct
LicenseProprietaryOpen Source
AuthorAnthropicDeepseek
ReleasedFeb 2026Unknown

Claude Opus 4.6 Modalities

Input
textimage
Output
text

DeepSeek Coder 33B Instruct Modalities

Input
Output

Frequently Asked Questions

DeepSeek Coder 33B Instruct has cheaper input pricing at $0.80/M tokens. DeepSeek Coder 33B Instruct has cheaper output pricing at $0.80/M tokens.
Claude Opus 4.6 has a 1,000,000 token context window, while DeepSeek Coder 33B Instruct has a 16,384 token context window.
Claude Opus 4.6 supports vision. DeepSeek Coder 33B Instruct does not support vision.