Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Claude 3.7 Sonnet leads with 4.9% higher average benchmark score. Claude 3.7 Sonnet offers 72.0K more tokens in context window than DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 70B. DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 70B is $17.50 cheaper per million tokens. Claude 3.7 Sonnet supports multimodal inputs. Claude 3.7 Sonnet is available on 4 providers. Both models have their strengths depending on your specific coding needs.
Anthropic
Claude 3.7 Sonnet represents Anthropic's first hybrid reasoning model, capable of producing near-instant responses or extended step-by-step thinking that is visible to users. Developed with particularly strong improvements in coding and front-end web development, it allows users to control thinking budgets and balances real-world task performance with reasoning capabilities for enterprise applications.
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.
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DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 70B
DeepSeek
2025-01-20

Claude 3.7 Sonnet
Anthropic
2025-02-24
Cost per million tokens (USD)

Claude 3.7 Sonnet

DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 70B
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 3 common benchmarks

Claude 3.7 Sonnet

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

Claude 3.7 Sonnet
Anthropic
Bedrock
ZeroEval

Claude 3.7 Sonnet

DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 70B

Claude 3.7 Sonnet

DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 70B

DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 70B
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