Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Claude 3.5 Sonnet leads with 10.4% higher average benchmark score. Claude 3.5 Sonnet offers 383.6K more tokens in context window than DeepSeek-V2.5. DeepSeek-V2.5 is $17.58 cheaper per million tokens. Claude 3.5 Sonnet supports multimodal inputs. 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-V2.5 was developed as an enhanced iteration of the DeepSeek-V2 architecture, designed to incorporate improvements in model quality and efficiency. Built to advance the DeepSeek foundation model series, it provides refined capabilities for general-purpose language understanding and generation tasks.
5 months newer

DeepSeek-V2.5
DeepSeek
2024-05-08

Claude 3.5 Sonnet
Anthropic
2024-10-22
Cost per million tokens (USD)

Claude 3.5 Sonnet

DeepSeek-V2.5
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 5 common benchmarks

Claude 3.5 Sonnet

DeepSeek-V2.5
Performance comparison across key benchmark categories

Claude 3.5 Sonnet

DeepSeek-V2.5
Available providers and their performance metrics

Claude 3.5 Sonnet
Anthropic
Bedrock

Claude 3.5 Sonnet

DeepSeek-V2.5

Claude 3.5 Sonnet

DeepSeek-V2.5

DeepSeek-V2.5
DeepInfra
DeepSeek
Hyperbolic