R1 Distill Llama 70B is 18.8× cheaper per million tokens (blended). Claude Opus 4.5 has the larger context window (200,000 vs 8,192 tokens, 24.4×). R1 Distill Llama 70B is open-weights; the other is not.
Claude Opus 4.5 vs R1 Distill Llama 70B
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Claude Opus 4.5
Anthropic · anthropic__claude-opus-4.5
R1 Distill Llama 70Bopen
DeepSeek · deepseek__deepseek-r1-distill-llama-70b
Identity
| Field | anthropic__claude-opus-4.5 | deepseek__deepseek-r1-distill-llama-70b |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | DeepSeek |
| Slug | anthropic__claude-opus-4.5 | deepseek__deepseek-r1-distill-llama-70b |
| Status | live | live |
| Open weights | No | Yes |
| License | — | — |
| HuggingFace | — | deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B |
Quality
| Field | anthropic__claude-opus-4.5 | deepseek__deepseek-r1-distill-llama-70b |
|---|---|---|
| Quality index (0–100) | — | — |
Cost
| Field | anthropic__claude-opus-4.5 | deepseek__deepseek-r1-distill-llama-70b |
|---|---|---|
| Input $ / 1M tokens | $5.00 | $0.80 |
| Cached input $ / 1M | $0.50 | — |
| Output $ / 1M tokens | $25.00 | $0.80 |
Context
| Field | anthropic__claude-opus-4.5 | deepseek__deepseek-r1-distill-llama-70b |
|---|---|---|
| Max context tokens | 200,000 | 8,192 |
| Max output tokens | 64,000 | 7,372 |
Modalities
| Field | anthropic__claude-opus-4.5 | deepseek__deepseek-r1-distill-llama-70b |
|---|---|---|
| Input | file, image, text | text |
| Output | text | text |