Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B leads with 7.4% higher average benchmark score. Claude 3.5 Haiku is available on 3 providers. Overall, DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B is the stronger choice for coding tasks.
Anthropic
Claude 3.5 Haiku was developed as the next generation of Anthropic's fastest model, offering similar speed to Claude 3 Haiku while surpassing Claude 3 Opus on many intelligence benchmarks. Built with low latency, improved instruction following, and accurate tool use, it serves user-facing products, specialized sub-agent tasks, and data-heavy applications.
DeepSeek
DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-8B was developed as a compact distilled variant, designed to bring reasoning capabilities to a more efficient 8B parameter Llama base. Built to democratize access to reasoning-enhanced models, it provides a lightweight option for applications requiring analytical depth with limited resources.
3 months newer

Claude 3.5 Haiku
Anthropic
2024-10-22

DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B
DeepSeek
2025-01-20
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 1 common benchmarks

Claude 3.5 Haiku

DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B
Available providers and their performance metrics

Claude 3.5 Haiku
Anthropic
Bedrock

Claude 3.5 Haiku

DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B

Claude 3.5 Haiku

DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B

DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B