Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Claude 3.7 Sonnet leads with 27.0% higher average benchmark score. 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-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.
2 months newer

DeepSeek VL2 Small
DeepSeek
2024-12-13

Claude 3.7 Sonnet
Anthropic
2025-02-24
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 1 common benchmarks

Claude 3.7 Sonnet

DeepSeek VL2 Small
Available providers and their performance metrics

Claude 3.7 Sonnet
Anthropic
Bedrock
ZeroEval

Claude 3.7 Sonnet

DeepSeek VL2 Small

Claude 3.7 Sonnet

DeepSeek VL2 Small

DeepSeek VL2 Small