AI Model Comparison
Side-by-side comparison of pricing, context window, benchmarks, capabilities, and license. Every figure comes from the developer's own pages, last checked on ; each model's page lists its sources. A figure we could not source shows as a dash.
Model A — Anthropic
Claude Haiku 5.5 is Anthropic's small, fast model, released on October 7, 2026 as the successor to Claude Haiku 4.5. It takes text and image input, returns text, and uses adaptive thinking steered by an effort setting.
Model B — DeepSeek
DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash is a 552B-parameter Mixture-of-Experts model with native visual understanding, which DeepSeek calls the smallest model in its new architecture family, released on September 10, 2026 with open weights under the MIT License.
| Property | Claude Haiku 5.5 | DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash |
|---|---|---|
| Released | Oct 7, 2026 | Sep 10, 2026 |
| Developer | Anthropic | DeepSeek |
| Type | multimodal | multimodal |
| License | proprietary | open-weight |
| Context window | — | 1,000,000 |
| Parameters | — | 552B total (MoE); 8B active parameters for input (prefill), 16B for output (decode) |
| Developer status | — | Superseded |
| Input $/M tokens | $0.10 | — |
| Output $/M tokens | $0.50 | — |
Bold green values indicate the winner on that dimension where comparison is meaningful (lower price wins; bigger context wins; more open license wins; newer date wins). Prices are the ones each developer lists today; a model it no longer prices has none.
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