Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Claude 3.7 Sonnet offers 128.0K more tokens in context window than DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale. DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale is $16.63 cheaper per million tokens. Claude 3.7 Sonnet supports multimodal inputs. Claude 3.7 Sonnet is available on 3 providers. Both models have their strengths depending on your specific coding needs.
Anthropic
Claude Sonnet 3.7, released by Anthropic in February 2025, is a large language model from the Claude 3 family featuring hybrid reasoning with configurable extended thinking. It supports a 200K token context window, 64K maximum output tokens (128K in beta), and native image understanding. Sonnet 3.7 targets complex coding, mathematics, and scientific reasoning tasks where extended chain-of-thought processing provides meaningful improvements in output quality.
DeepSeek
DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale is a high-compute variant of DeepSeek-V3.2 with 685 billion total parameters, made available for a limited period in December 2025. It was released without tool-calling support but demonstrated exceptional reasoning performance, achieving gold-medal results in the 2025 IMO and IOI competitions. DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale targets research and benchmarking use cases requiring maximum reasoning capability under an MIT license.
9 months newer

Claude 3.7 Sonnet
Anthropic
2025-02-24

DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale
DeepSeek
2025-12
Cost per million tokens (USD)
Claude 3.7 Sonnet
DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale
Context window and performance specifications
Claude 3.7 Sonnet
2024-10
Available providers and their performance metrics
Claude 3.7 Sonnet
Anthropic
AWS Bedrock
Google Cloud Vertex AI
DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale
Claude 3.7 Sonnet
DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale
Claude 3.7 Sonnet
DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale
DeepSeek