Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Claude Sonnet 4 leads with 33.7% higher average benchmark score. 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-VL2-Tiny was developed as an ultra-efficient vision-language model, designed for deployment in resource-constrained environments. Built to enable multimodal AI on edge devices and mobile applications, it distills vision-language capabilities into a minimal footprint for widespread accessibility.
5 months newer

DeepSeek VL2 Tiny
DeepSeek
2024-12-13

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

Claude Sonnet 4

DeepSeek VL2 Tiny
Available providers and their performance metrics

Claude Sonnet 4
Anthropic
Bedrock
ZeroEval

Claude Sonnet 4

DeepSeek VL2 Tiny

Claude Sonnet 4

DeepSeek VL2 Tiny

DeepSeek VL2 Tiny