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Claude Sonnet 4.5 vs DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 70B
Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Claude Sonnet 4.5 leads with 18.2% higher average benchmark score. Claude Sonnet 4.5 offers 8.0K more tokens in context window than DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 70B. DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 70B is $17.50 cheaper per million tokens. Claude Sonnet 4.5 supports multimodal inputs. Overall, Claude Sonnet 4.5 is the stronger choice for coding tasks.
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Anthropic
Claude Sonnet 4.5 was developed to bridge human thinking and machine assistance, allowing people to work with language and tools in a more conversational and natural way. Built with a focus on turning ideas into results, it represents an evolution in making AI feel less mechanical while maintaining strong capabilities across reasoning, coding, and collaborative tasks.
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DeepSeek
DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B was created through knowledge distillation from DeepSeek-R1 into a Llama-based architecture, designed to transfer reasoning capabilities to a widely-used open-source foundation. Built to combine DeepSeek's reasoning innovations with Llama's ecosystem compatibility, it enables broader access to advanced reasoning techniques.
8 months newer
DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 70B
DeepSeek
2025-01-20
Claude Sonnet 4.5
Anthropic
2025-09-29
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Pricing Comparison
Cost per million tokens (USD)
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Claude Sonnet 4.5
Input:$3.00
Output:$15.00
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DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 70B
Input:$0.10
Output:$0.40($17.50 cheaper)
Performance Metrics
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 1 common benchmarks
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Claude Sonnet 4.5
Average Score:83.4%(+18.2%)
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DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 70B
Average Score:65.2%
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Knowledge Cutoff
Training data recency comparison
Claude Sonnet 4.5
2025-01-31
More recent knowledge cutoff means awareness of newer technologies and frameworks
Provider Availability & Performance
Available providers and their performance metrics
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Claude Sonnet 4.5
2 providers
Anthropic
Throughput: 42 tok/s
Latency: 0.4ms
ZeroEval
Throughput: 42 tok/s
Latency: 0.4ms
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Claude Sonnet 4.5
Avg Score:83.4%(+18.2%)
Providers:2
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DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 70B
Avg Score:65.2%
Providers:1