Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Claude 3.5 Sonnet leads with 2.0% higher average benchmark score. Claude 3.5 Sonnet offers 144.0K more tokens in context window than DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 70B. DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 70B is $17.50 cheaper per million tokens. Claude 3.5 Sonnet supports multimodal inputs. Claude 3.5 Sonnet is available on 3 providers. Both models have their strengths depending on your specific coding needs.
Anthropic
This upgraded version of Claude 3.5 Sonnet was released with significant improvements in coding and agentic tool use. Built to deliver enhanced performance in software engineering tasks, it brought substantial gains in reasoning and problem-solving while introducing the groundbreaking computer use capability in public beta, allowing it to interact with computer interfaces like a human.
DeepSeek
DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B was created through knowledge distillation from DeepSeek-R1 into a Llama-based architecture, designed to transfer reasoning capabilities to a widely-used open-source foundation. Built to combine DeepSeek's reasoning innovations with Llama's ecosystem compatibility, it enables broader access to advanced reasoning techniques.
3 months newer

Claude 3.5 Sonnet
Anthropic
2024-10-22

DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 70B
DeepSeek
2025-01-20
Cost per million tokens (USD)

Claude 3.5 Sonnet

DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 70B
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 1 common benchmarks

Claude 3.5 Sonnet

DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 70B
Available providers and their performance metrics

Claude 3.5 Sonnet
Anthropic
Bedrock

Claude 3.5 Sonnet

DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 70B

Claude 3.5 Sonnet

DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 70B

DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 70B
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