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Anthropic vs DeepInfra

SEPT 2026 audit

A comparison of Anthropic and DeepInfra built from values read directly from each provider's own documentation, with the source recorded against every figure.

Reviewed by Palash BagchiUpdated 26 criteria comparedSources last checked

The short answer

Choose Anthropic if…

Teams that want the full 1M-token window at the standard per-token rate rather than a long-context surcharge, and that can use caching and batch to cut a frontier-model bill roughly in half.

Editorial · Palash Bagchi · approved

Choose DeepInfra if…

Running open-weight models at the lowest published per-token rates here — DeepSeek-V4-Flash at $0.06 per million input is a fraction of what the lab itself charges — with dedicated H100s at $2.20 an hour if throughput demands it.

Editorial · Palash Bagchi · approved

Consider something else if…

  • Anthropic: Its cheapest model is $1 per million input tokens, several times what the budget tiers at Google, OpenAI and DeepSeek charge, so high-volume simple work is priced against you.
  • DeepInfra: Only some models carry per-token pricing; the rest bill for inference execution time, which is a different and harder thing to forecast.

17 sourced criteria separate them — see where, with sources, below.

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01.

At a glance.

CriterionAnthropicDeepInfra
Pricing
Free tierNoNo
Kind of free offerFree creditNo free offer
Pricing modelPer million tokens, priced separately for input and output and per model, with multipliers stacked on top: prompt caching, a 50% batch discount, a 1.1x uplift for US-only inference on Claude 4.6 and later, and a fast-mode premium.Two products on one bill: per-token serverless inference with a separate cached-input rate for each model, and dedicated GPUs billed per minute and invoiced weekly. Models without per-token pricing are billed for inference execution time instead.
Infrastructure
RegionsTwo inference geos on the Claude API: "global" (the default, any available geography) and "us" (US-based infrastructure only, priced at 1.1x on Claude 4.6 and later). Workspace storage geo is "us" only.Serverless inference runs on DeepInfra's own inference-optimised infrastructure in US-based data centers. No region selector is documented for the shared inference API.
Inference
Input price, top model
$10 per million input tokens for Claude Fable 5.1, the most capable model.
$1.30 per million input tokens for DeepSeek-V4-Pro, the most expensive model in its catalogue. Cached input is $0.10.
Output price, top model
$50 per million output tokens for Claude Fable 5.1.
$2.60 per million output tokens for DeepSeek-V4-Pro.
Input price, cheapest model
$1 per million input tokens for Claude Haiku 4.5, the cheapest current model.
$0.06 per million input tokens for DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731, with cached input at $0.015 and output at $0.18. DeepSeek itself charges $0.44 at peak for the same checkpoint and Fireworks $0.22.
Context window
1M tokens on Claude Fable 5.1, Claude Opus 5 and Claude Sonnet 5; 200K on Claude Haiku 4.5.
1024k tokens on the DeepSeek V4 models it serves; 160k on the V3 generation. The window is the model's rather than a platform limit.
Max output tokens128K tokens on the top three models, 64K on Claude Haiku 4.5.Hard cap of 16384 output tokens per response for most models on the chat completions API; the exact limit is model-dependent.
Prompt cachingSupported — Priced separately: 5-minute and 1-hour cache writes, with cheaper cache hits and refreshes.Supported
Batch discount50% off both input and output tokens through the Batch API, for asynchronous processing.Batch API jobs are billed 20% below real-time pricing, with results returned within 24 hours.
Rate limitsPer-organization limits set by usage tier (Start, Build, Scale, Custom). On the Start tier the Messages API allows 1,000 RPM with 2,000,000 input and 400,000 output tokens per minute for Claude Opus 5, Sonnet 5 and Haiku 4.5, under a $500/month spend cap.Default 200 concurrent requests per model per account (429 above it); a limit increase can be requested in the dashboard.
Compliance
SOC 2
SOC 2 Type II; the Trust Center lists a 2025 Type 2 SOC 2 and CSA STAR L2 report, a SOC 3 report and a 2026 bridge letter, released on access request.
Security measures stated to comply with SOC 2 standards in the privacy policy; no report, audit type or auditor is published.
ISO 27001
ISO 27001:2022 certified, with an ISO 27001 Certificate (2025) and an ISO/IEC 42001:2023 certificate listed in the Trust Center.
Security measures stated to comply with ISO 27001 standards in the privacy policy; no certificate or issuing body is published.
HIPAA
HIPAA-ready on the Claude API with a signed BAA; Claude Code, Console usage, Claude Platform on AWS and Microsoft Foundry are not covered.
Technical and organizational measures for HIPAA compliance stated in the privacy policy; no BAA or eligible-services list is published.
GDPR / data residencyInference geo is chosen per request ("global" or "us"); workspace data-at-rest geo is fixed at creation and "us" is currently the only option.Privacy Policy: data may be transferred, stored and processed outside your jurisdiction, specifically in the United States; EU residents keep GDPR rights.
Encryption at rest
Workspace data is encrypted at rest under Anthropic's default encryption; an opt-in customer-managed key can replace it.
Inference inputs and outputs are not stored to disk; bulk-inference data may be stored on disk in encrypted form, then deleted.
Role-based access control
Claude Enterprise members hold one of five organization roles, plus custom roles attached to groups; the Admin API reads groups and custom roles.
Team roles are member and admin; an admin can change roles, but all team members share the same API tokens and models.
Dedicated infrastructure
Priority Tier capacity commitments are no longer sold; existing ones run to their contract end date and guaranteed capacity goes through sales.
Private model deployments run on dedicated GPU infrastructure - your weights, your endpoint, your isolation - not shared with other users.

Only criteria both providers publish appear here; a tinted cell marks a real difference. Criteria only one of them documents are listed below, and an absence there means we found no source — not that the feature is missing. How we source this.

The small bar above a value is inetGeek's own lean toward that side — computed from the same facts shown, never a number the provider published. See the picker below "The short answer" to weigh only the criteria you care about.

02.

Where they differ.

Kind of free offer

Anthropic
Free credit
DeepInfra
No free offer
Sources (2) →

Pricing model

Anthropic
Per million tokens, priced separately for input and output and per model, with multipliers stacked on top: prompt caching, a 50% batch discount, a 1.1x uplift for US-only inference on Claude 4.6 and later, and a fast-mode premium.
DeepInfra
Two products on one bill: per-token serverless inference with a separate cached-input rate for each model, and dedicated GPUs billed per minute and invoiced weekly. Models without per-token pricing are billed for inference execution time instead.
Sources (2) →
  • Pricing — Claude Docs ↗

    “This page provides detailed pricing information for Anthropic's models and features. All prices are in USD. [...] These multipliers stack with other pricing modifiers, including the Batch API discount and data residency. [...] specifying US-only inference through the inference_geo parameter incurs a 1.1x multiplier on all token pricing categories”

    Read 2026-09-06 · official pricing · Report a correction

  • Pricing — DeepInfra ↗

    “Some of our langauge models offer per token pricing. Most other models are billed for inference execution time. [...] Billed in minute granularity Invoiced weekly”

    Read 2026-09-06 · official pricing · Report a correction

Regions

Anthropic
Two inference geos on the Claude API: "global" (the default, any available geography) and "us" (US-based infrastructure only, priced at 1.1x on Claude 4.6 and later). Workspace storage geo is "us" only.
DeepInfra
Serverless inference runs on DeepInfra's own inference-optimised infrastructure in US-based data centers. No region selector is documented for the shared inference API.
Sources (2) →

Input price, top model

Anthropic
$10 per million input tokens for Claude Fable 5.1, the most capable model.
DeepInfra
$1.30 per million input tokens for DeepSeek-V4-Pro, the most expensive model in its catalogue. Cached input is $0.10.
Sources (2) →

Output price, top model

Anthropic
$50 per million output tokens for Claude Fable 5.1.
DeepInfra
$2.60 per million output tokens for DeepSeek-V4-Pro.
Sources (2) →

Input price, cheapest model

Anthropic
$1 per million input tokens for Claude Haiku 4.5, the cheapest current model.
DeepInfra
$0.06 per million input tokens for DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731, with cached input at $0.015 and output at $0.18. DeepSeek itself charges $0.44 at peak for the same checkpoint and Fireworks $0.22.
Sources (2) →

Context window

Anthropic

1M tokens on Claude Fable 5.1, Claude Opus 5 and Claude Sonnet 5; 200K on Claude Haiku 4.5.

DeepInfra

1024k tokens on the DeepSeek V4 models it serves; 160k on the V3 generation. The window is the model's rather than a platform limit.

Sources (2) →

Max output tokens

Anthropic
128K tokens on the top three models, 64K on Claude Haiku 4.5.
DeepInfra
Hard cap of 16384 output tokens per response for most models on the chat completions API; the exact limit is model-dependent.
Sources (2) →

Batch discount

Anthropic
50% off both input and output tokens through the Batch API, for asynchronous processing.
DeepInfra
Batch API jobs are billed 20% below real-time pricing, with results returned within 24 hours.
Sources (2) →

Rate limits

Anthropic
Per-organization limits set by usage tier (Start, Build, Scale, Custom). On the Start tier the Messages API allows 1,000 RPM with 2,000,000 input and 400,000 output tokens per minute for Claude Opus 5, Sonnet 5 and Haiku 4.5, under a $500/month spend cap.
DeepInfra
Default 200 concurrent requests per model per account (429 above it); a limit increase can be requested in the dashboard.
Sources (2) →
  • Rate limits - Claude Platform Docs ↗

    “The rate limits for the Messages API are measured in requests per minute (RPM), input tokens per minute (ITPM), and output tokens per minute (OTPM) for each model class. [...] Claude Opus 5 1,000 2,000,000 400,000 [...] Usage tier Monthly spend cap Start $500 USD Build $1,000 USD Scale $200,000 USD”

    Read 2026-09-13 · official docs · Report a correction

  • Rate Limits - DeepInfra ↗

    “Every account has a default limit of 200 concurrent requests per model [...] You can request a rate limit increase in your”

    Read 2026-09-13 · official docs · Report a correction

SOC 2

Anthropic
SOC 2 Type II; the Trust Center lists a 2025 Type 2 SOC 2 and CSA STAR L2 report, a SOC 3 report and a 2026 bridge letter, released on access request.
DeepInfra
Security measures stated to comply with SOC 2 standards in the privacy policy; no report, audit type or auditor is published.
Sources (2) →

ISO 27001

Anthropic
ISO 27001:2022 certified, with an ISO 27001 Certificate (2025) and an ISO/IEC 42001:2023 certificate listed in the Trust Center.
DeepInfra
Security measures stated to comply with ISO 27001 standards in the privacy policy; no certificate or issuing body is published.
Sources (2) →

HIPAA

Anthropic
HIPAA-ready on the Claude API with a signed BAA; Claude Code, Console usage, Claude Platform on AWS and Microsoft Foundry are not covered.
DeepInfra
Technical and organizational measures for HIPAA compliance stated in the privacy policy; no BAA or eligible-services list is published.
Sources (2) →
  • API and data retention - Claude Platform Docs ↗

    “The Claude API supports HIPAA-ready integrations for organizations that handle protected health information (PHI). With a signed BAA and a HIPAA-enabled organization, you can use supported API features to process PHI [...] Claude Code: Claude Code is not covered under HIPAA readiness. [...] Claude Platform on AWS and Microsoft Foundry: HIPAA readiness is not available on these platforms.”

    Read 2026-09-13 · official docs · Report a correction

  • Privacy Policy — DeepInfra ↗

    “Our security measures comply with SOC 2 and ISO 27001 standards and include technical and organizational measures for GDPR and HIPAA”

    Read 2026-09-13 · official site · Report a correction

GDPR / data residency

Anthropic
Inference geo is chosen per request ("global" or "us"); workspace data-at-rest geo is fixed at creation and "us" is currently the only option.
DeepInfra
Privacy Policy: data may be transferred, stored and processed outside your jurisdiction, specifically in the United States; EU residents keep GDPR rights.
Sources (2) →
  • Data residency - Claude Platform Docs ↗

    “inference geo: controls where model inference runs, on a per-request basis [...] Workspace geo is set when you create a workspace and can [...] is the only available workspace geo.”

    Read 2026-09-13 · official docs · Report a correction

  • DeepInfra Privacy Policy ↗

    “Your data may be transferred, stored, and processed outside of your jurisdiction, specifically in the United States. [...] If you are a resident of the European Union you may have additional rights under the General Data Protection Regulation.”

    Read 2026-09-13 · official site · Report a correction

Encryption at rest

Anthropic
Workspace data is encrypted at rest under Anthropic's default encryption; an opt-in customer-managed key can replace it.
DeepInfra
Inference inputs and outputs are not stored to disk; bulk-inference data may be stored on disk in encrypted form, then deleted.
Sources (2) →

Role-based access control

Anthropic
Claude Enterprise members hold one of five organization roles, plus custom roles attached to groups; the Admin API reads groups and custom roles.
DeepInfra
Team roles are member and admin; an admin can change roles, but all team members share the same API tokens and models.
Sources (2) →
  • User management - Claude Platform Docs ↗

    “Groups connect members to custom roles (role-based access control, the RBAC in the endpoint paths and scope names) [...] Every member has exactly one organization role. Reads return the member”

    Read 2026-09-13 · official docs · Report a correction

  • Okta SSO - DeepInfra ↗

    “Admin can change team member roles (member / admin) [...] All team members share the same API tokens and models [...] For per-user isolation (separate tokens and models per person), contact us”

    Read 2026-09-13 · official docs · Report a correction

Dedicated infrastructure

Anthropic
Priority Tier capacity commitments are no longer sold; existing ones run to their contract end date and guaranteed capacity goes through sales.
DeepInfra
Private model deployments run on dedicated GPU infrastructure - your weights, your endpoint, your isolation - not shared with other users.
Sources (2) →

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03.

Documented by only one.

These criteria are published by one provider and not the other. An absence here means we have not found a source, not that the feature is missing — except where we say we read the other provider's own page on a given date and it does not state it. Those rows lean, and the provider can correct them with a link.

Credit card to startDeepInfra: Yes
Entry paid planDeepInfra: No minimum spend and no seat fees - billing is pay-per-token usage only, with no charge for idle GPU time.
Startup credit programAnthropic: Claude for Startups: free credits and priority rate limits, amount undisclosed until application. Open to any early-stage founder with or without VC backing per the FAQ, though the main eligibility list also requires equity funding, founding within the last 4 years, and no prior Anthropic startup credits.
H100 SXM, per GPU-hourDeepInfra: $2.20 per GPU-hour for a dedicated H100 80GB — below every dedicated cloud in this dataset. A100 80GB is $0.89, H200 $2.69, B200 $3.69. Billed in minute granularity, invoiced weekly.
Largest GPU offeredDeepInfra: 270GB per GPU on a B300, at $4.89 per GPU-hour.
Customer-managed keysAnthropic: Optional CMEK using a key in your own AWS KMS, Google Cloud KMS or Azure Key Vault; US regions only, permanent once enabled, activated by the account team.
Private networking / VPCAnthropic: AWS PrivateLink is supported for connecting your VPC to the Claude Platform on AWS endpoint. Claude Platform on AWS; the statement does not extend to the first-party api.anthropic.com endpoint.
04.

Questions this comparison answers.

Should I choose Anthropic or DeepInfra?

Pick Anthropic if Teams that want the full 1M-token window at the standard per-token rate rather than a long-context surcharge, and that can use caching and batch to cut a frontier-model bill roughly in half.

Pick DeepInfra if Running open-weight models at the lowest published per-token rates here — DeepSeek-V4-Flash at $0.06 per million input is a fraction of what the lab itself charges — with dedicated H100s at $2.20 an hour if throughput demands it.

Provider pages

AnthropicHosted inference for the Claude model family, sold per million tokens with prompt caching and a batch tier.DeepInfraServerless inference for open-weight models with published cached-input rates, plus dedicated GPUs billed by the minute.

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