Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Claude Sonnet 4 leads with 13.3% higher average benchmark score. Claude Sonnet 4 offers 72.0K more tokens in context window than DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 32B. DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 32B is $17.70 cheaper per million tokens. 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-Qwen-32B was created as a larger distilled variant, designed to transfer more of DeepSeek-R1's reasoning capabilities into a Qwen-based foundation. Built to serve applications requiring enhanced analytical depth, it represents a powerful option in the distilled reasoning model family.
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DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 32B
DeepSeek
2025-01-20

Claude Sonnet 4
Anthropic
2025-05-22
Cost per million tokens (USD)

Claude Sonnet 4

DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 32B
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 1 common benchmarks

Claude Sonnet 4

DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 32B
Available providers and their performance metrics

Claude Sonnet 4
Anthropic
Bedrock
ZeroEval

Claude Sonnet 4

DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 32B

Claude Sonnet 4

DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 32B

DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 32B
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