Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
DeepSeek VL2 Small leads with 19.9% higher average benchmark score. Claude Sonnet 4 is available on 4 providers. Overall, DeepSeek VL2 Small 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 VL2 Small is a multimodal language model developed by DeepSeek. It achieves strong performance with an average score of 69.6% across 14 benchmarks. It excels particularly in DocVQA (92.3%), ChartQA (84.5%), OCRBench (83.4%). As a multimodal model, it can process and understand text, images, and other input formats seamlessly. Released in 2024, it represents DeepSeek's latest advancement in AI technology.
5 months newer
DeepSeek VL2 Small
DeepSeek
2024-12-13
Claude Sonnet 4
Anthropic
2025-05-22
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 21 common benchmarks
Claude Sonnet 4
DeepSeek VL2 Small
Available providers and their performance metrics
Claude Sonnet 4
Anthropic
Bedrock
ZeroEval
Claude Sonnet 4
DeepSeek VL2 Small
Claude Sonnet 4
DeepSeek VL2 Small
DeepSeek VL2 Small