Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Claude 3.5 Sonnet leads with 10.2% higher average benchmark score. 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-VL2-Small was created as a compact vision-language variant, designed to bring multimodal capabilities to applications with limited computational resources. Built to provide visual and textual understanding in a more efficient package, it serves use cases requiring practical deployment of vision-language AI.
1 month newer

Claude 3.5 Sonnet
Anthropic
2024-10-22

DeepSeek VL2 Small
DeepSeek
2024-12-13
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 5 common benchmarks

Claude 3.5 Sonnet

DeepSeek VL2 Small
Available providers and their performance metrics

Claude 3.5 Sonnet
Anthropic
Bedrock

Claude 3.5 Sonnet

DeepSeek VL2 Small

Claude 3.5 Sonnet

DeepSeek VL2 Small

DeepSeek VL2 Small