Claude Haiku 5.5 vs DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017

Side-by-side pricing per provider, context window, benchmark scores and speed, all on one OpenAI-compatible API.

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Claude Haiku 5.5Anthropicanthropic/claude-haiku-5.5
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017DeepSeekdeepseek/deepseek-v4.1-flash-1017
Creator
Anthropic
DeepSeek
Released
Oct 7, 2026
Oct 17, 2026
Context window
1M
1.05M (best)
Max output
128K
944K (best)
Input / 1MLowest provider price
$0.10
$0.10$0.10–$0.30 across 4
Output / 1MLowest provider price
$0.50
$0.29$0.29–$1.20 across 4 (best)
Providers
3
4 (best)
IntelligenceArtificial Analysis index
34.3 (best)
32.5
Accepts
Image, Text
Text, Image
Produces
Text
Text
Tool calling
Yes
Yes
Structured output
Yes
Yes
Reasoning
Yes
No

Claude Haiku 5.5 vs DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017: summary

Claude Haiku 5.5 and DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 are both available through FastRouter's OpenAI-compatible API, so switching between them is a change of model id, not a new integration.

Claude Haiku 5.5, from Anthropic, has a 1,000,000-token context window, costs from $0.10/1M input and $0.50/1M output tokens across 3 providers and scores 34.3 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index.

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017, from DeepSeek, has a 1,048,576-token context window, costs from $0.10/1M input and $0.29/1M output tokens across 4 providers and scores 32.5 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index.

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 has the largest context window and Claude Haiku 5.5 scores highest for intelligence.

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client = OpenAI(base_url="https://api.fastrouter.ai/api/v1", api_key="<FASTROUTER_API_KEY>") client.chat.completions.create(model="anthropic/claude-haiku-5.5", messages=[...]) # or client.chat.completions.create(model="deepseek/deepseek-v4.1-flash-1017", messages=[...])
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