Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Claude Haiku 4.5 offers 128.0K more tokens in context window than DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale. DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale is $4.63 cheaper per million tokens. Claude Haiku 4.5 supports multimodal inputs. Claude Haiku 4.5 is available on 3 providers. Both models have their strengths depending on your specific coding needs.
Anthropic
Claude Haiku 4.5, released by Anthropic in October 2025, is a fast, efficient large language model from the Claude 4.5 family optimized for high-throughput, low-latency workloads. It features a 200K token context window, 64K maximum output tokens, native image understanding, and extended thinking capabilities. Haiku 4.5 targets latency-sensitive applications such as real-time assistants, document classification, and lightweight agentic tasks where rapid response times are a primary requirement.
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.
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Claude Haiku 4.5
Anthropic
2025-10-01

DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale
DeepSeek
2025-12
Cost per million tokens (USD)
Claude Haiku 4.5
DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale
Context window and performance specifications
Claude Haiku 4.5
2025-02
Available providers and their performance metrics
Claude Haiku 4.5
Anthropic
AWS Bedrock
Google Cloud Vertex AI
DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale
Claude Haiku 4.5
DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale
Claude Haiku 4.5
DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale
DeepSeek