Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Claude 3.5 Sonnet leads with 18.1% higher average benchmark score. Claude 3.5 Sonnet supports multimodal inputs. Claude 3.5 Sonnet is available on 3 providers. Overall, Claude 3.5 Sonnet is the stronger choice for coding tasks.
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-Qwen-7B was developed as a compact distilled model, designed to provide reasoning capabilities in an efficient 7B parameter package. Built to extend analytical AI to a broad range of applications, it balances capability with the practical benefits of a smaller model size.
3 months newer

Claude 3.5 Sonnet
Anthropic
2024-10-22

DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 7B
DeepSeek
2025-01-20
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 1 common benchmarks

Claude 3.5 Sonnet

DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 7B
Available providers and their performance metrics

Claude 3.5 Sonnet
Anthropic
Bedrock

Claude 3.5 Sonnet

DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 7B

Claude 3.5 Sonnet

DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 7B

DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 7B