Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
DeepSeek-V3 leads with 30.3% higher average benchmark score. Claude Sonnet 4 offers 65.9K more tokens in context window than DeepSeek-V3. DeepSeek-V3 is $16.63 cheaper per million tokens. Claude Sonnet 4 supports multimodal inputs. Claude Sonnet 4 is available on 4 providers. Overall, DeepSeek-V3 is the stronger choice for coding tasks.
Anthropic
Claude Sonnet 4 is a multimodal language model developed by Anthropic. It achieves strong performance with an average score of 69.4% across 8 benchmarks. It excels particularly in MMMLU (86.5%), TAU-bench Retail (80.5%), GPQA (75.4%). It supports a 328K token context window for handling large documents. The model is available through 4 API providers. As a multimodal model, it can process and understand text, images, and other input formats seamlessly. Released in 2025, it represents Anthropic's latest advancement in AI technology.
DeepSeek
DeepSeek-V3 is a language model developed by DeepSeek. It achieves strong performance with an average score of 67.2% across 20 benchmarks. It excels particularly in DROP (91.6%), CLUEWSC (90.9%), MATH-500 (90.2%). It supports a 262K token context window for handling large documents. The model is available through 1 API provider. Released in 2024, it represents DeepSeek's latest advancement in AI technology.
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DeepSeek-V3
DeepSeek
2024-12-25
Claude Sonnet 4
Anthropic
2025-05-22
Cost per million tokens (USD)
Claude Sonnet 4
DeepSeek-V3
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 26 common benchmarks
Claude Sonnet 4
DeepSeek-V3
Available providers and their performance metrics
Claude Sonnet 4
Anthropic
Bedrock
ZeroEval
Claude Sonnet 4
DeepSeek-V3
Claude Sonnet 4
DeepSeek-V3
DeepSeek-V3
DeepSeek