Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Claude 3.7 Sonnet leads with 53.5% higher average benchmark score. Claude 3.7 Sonnet offers 311.6K more tokens in context window than DeepSeek-V2.5. DeepSeek-V2.5 is $17.58 cheaper per million tokens. Claude 3.7 Sonnet supports multimodal inputs. Overall, Claude 3.7 Sonnet is the stronger choice for coding tasks.
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-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.
9 months newer

DeepSeek-V2.5
DeepSeek
2024-05-08

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

Claude 3.7 Sonnet

DeepSeek-V2.5
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 1 common benchmarks

Claude 3.7 Sonnet

DeepSeek-V2.5
Performance comparison across key benchmark categories

Claude 3.7 Sonnet

DeepSeek-V2.5
Available providers and their performance metrics

Claude 3.7 Sonnet
Anthropic
Bedrock
ZeroEval

Claude 3.7 Sonnet

DeepSeek-V2.5

Claude 3.7 Sonnet

DeepSeek-V2.5

DeepSeek-V2.5
DeepInfra
DeepSeek
Hyperbolic