Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
. Both models have their strengths depending on your specific coding needs.
Anthropic
Claude Haiku 4.5 continues Anthropic's tradition of fast, efficient models in the fourth generation Claude family. Designed to maintain the hallmark speed and cost-effectiveness of the Haiku line while incorporating advancements from the Claude 4 series, it serves applications requiring rapid processing and quick turnaround times.
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.
10 months newer

DeepSeek VL2 Small
DeepSeek
2024-12-13

Claude Haiku 4.5
Anthropic
2025-10-15
Context window and performance specifications
Claude Haiku 4.5
2025-02-01
Available providers and their performance metrics

Claude Haiku 4.5
Anthropic

DeepSeek VL2 Small

Claude Haiku 4.5

DeepSeek VL2 Small

Claude Haiku 4.5

DeepSeek VL2 Small