Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Claude 3.7 Sonnet leads with 21.6% higher average benchmark score. Claude 3.7 Sonnet offers 65.9K more tokens in context window than DeepSeek-V3. DeepSeek-V3 is $16.63 cheaper per million tokens. Claude 3.7 Sonnet supports multimodal inputs. Claude 3.7 Sonnet is available on 4 providers. 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-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

DeepSeek-V3
DeepSeek
2024-12-25

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

Claude 3.7 Sonnet

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

Claude 3.7 Sonnet

DeepSeek-V3
Performance comparison across key benchmark categories

Claude 3.7 Sonnet

DeepSeek-V3
Available providers and their performance metrics

Claude 3.7 Sonnet
Anthropic
Bedrock
ZeroEval

Claude 3.7 Sonnet

DeepSeek-V3

Claude 3.7 Sonnet

DeepSeek-V3

DeepSeek-V3
DeepSeek