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Claude Sonnet 4.5 vs DeepSeek VL2 Small
Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Claude Sonnet 4.5 is available on 2 providers. Both models have their strengths depending on your specific coding needs.
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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-VL2-Small was created as a compact vision-language variant, designed to bring multimodal capabilities to applications with limited computational resources. Built to provide visual and textual understanding in a more efficient package, it serves use cases requiring practical deployment of vision-language AI.
9 months newer
DeepSeek VL2 Small
DeepSeek
2024-12-13
Claude Sonnet 4.5
Anthropic
2025-09-29
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Performance Metrics
Context window and performance specifications
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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:0.0%
Providers:2
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DeepSeek VL2 Small
Avg Score:0.0%
Providers:0