Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Claude Sonnet 4.5 offers 5.4K more tokens in context window than DeepSeek VL2. Claude Sonnet 4.5 is $4791.50 cheaper per million tokens. Both models have their strengths depending on your specific coding needs.
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.
DeepSeek
DeepSeek-VL2 was developed as a vision-language model, designed to handle both visual and textual inputs for multimodal understanding tasks. Built to extend DeepSeek's capabilities beyond text-only processing, it enables applications requiring integrated analysis of images and language.
9 months newer

DeepSeek VL2
DeepSeek
2024-12-13

Claude Sonnet 4.5
Anthropic
2025-09-29
Cost per million tokens (USD)

Claude Sonnet 4.5

DeepSeek VL2
Context window and performance specifications
Claude Sonnet 4.5
2025-01-31
Available providers and their performance metrics

Claude Sonnet 4.5
Anthropic
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DeepSeek VL2

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DeepSeek VL2
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