Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Claude 3.5 Sonnet leads with 2.8% higher average benchmark score. Claude 3.5 Sonnet offers 137.9K more tokens in context window than DeepSeek-V3. DeepSeek-V3 is $16.63 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-V3 was introduced as a major architectural advancement, developed with 671B mixture-of-experts parameters and trained on 14.8 trillion tokens. Built to be three times faster than V2 while maintaining open-source availability, it demonstrates competitive performance against frontier closed-source models and represents a significant leap in efficient large-scale model design.
2 months newer

Claude 3.5 Sonnet
Anthropic
2024-10-22

DeepSeek-V3
DeepSeek
2024-12-25
Cost per million tokens (USD)

Claude 3.5 Sonnet

DeepSeek-V3
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 5 common benchmarks

Claude 3.5 Sonnet

DeepSeek-V3
Performance comparison across key benchmark categories

Claude 3.5 Sonnet

DeepSeek-V3
Available providers and their performance metrics

Claude 3.5 Sonnet
Anthropic
Bedrock

Claude 3.5 Sonnet

DeepSeek-V3

Claude 3.5 Sonnet

DeepSeek-V3

DeepSeek-V3
DeepSeek