Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Claude Sonnet 4 leads with 26.4% higher average benchmark score. Claude Sonnet 4 supports multimodal inputs. Claude Sonnet 4 is available on 4 providers. Overall, Claude Sonnet 4 is the stronger choice for coding tasks.
Anthropic
Claude Sonnet 4 was created as the balanced offering in the Claude 4 family, designed to provide strong intelligence with practical speed and cost efficiency. Built to serve as a versatile workhorse for diverse applications, it balances advanced capabilities with operational considerations for everyday enterprise and consumer use.
DeepSeek
DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-8B was developed as a compact distilled variant, designed to bring reasoning capabilities to a more efficient 8B parameter Llama base. Built to democratize access to reasoning-enhanced models, it provides a lightweight option for applications requiring analytical depth with limited resources.
4 months newer

DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B
DeepSeek
2025-01-20

Claude Sonnet 4
Anthropic
2025-05-22
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 1 common benchmarks

Claude Sonnet 4

DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B
Available providers and their performance metrics

Claude Sonnet 4
Anthropic
Bedrock
ZeroEval

Claude Sonnet 4

DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B

Claude Sonnet 4

DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B

DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B