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Claude Sonnet 4.5vs
DeepSeek V3
Claude Sonnet 4.5 leads 8 of 8 shared benchmarks. Claude Sonnet 4.5 has the larger context window (200K tokens).
Benchmarks from cited public sources; pricing from official pages; status from official provider feeds.
Shared benchmarks
8 – 0
Claude Sonnet 4.5 leads
Cheaper per token
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list price, input + output
Larger context
Claude Sonnet 4.5
200K tokens
Providers
2 providers
Anthropic · DeepSeek
Claude Sonnet 4.5
Anthropic · released 2025-09-29
textvision
DeepSeek V3
DeepSeek · released 2024-12-26
text
- Context
- 128K
- Max out
- 8K
- Input /1M
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- Output /1M
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- Cached /1M
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- Scores
- 14 · 7 core
Quality
Benchmark matrix
8 shared · 28 only Claude Sonnet 4.5 · 2 only DeepSeek V3| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 4.5 | DeepSeek V3 | Δ | Edge |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reported by both · 8 | ||||
| SWE-bench Verified | 77.2% ↗ | 42% ↗ | +35.2 pt | Claude Sonnet 4.5 |
| GPQA Diamond | 83.4% ↗ | 59.1% ↗ | +24.3 pt | Claude Sonnet 4.5 |
| AIME 2025 | 84.2% ↗matharena ⚠ | 25% ↗matharena | +59.2 pt | Claude Sonnet 4.5 |
| LMArena Elo | 1456.6 ↗ | 1332.4 ↗ | +124.2 | Claude Sonnet 4.5 |
| MATH Level 5 (Epoch AI run) | 97.7% ↗epoch run | 75.5% ↗epoch run | +22.2 pt | Claude Sonnet 4.5 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 (Epoch AI run) | 77.8% ↗epoch run | 15.8% ↗epoch run | +62 pt | Claude Sonnet 4.5 |
| SimpleBench (SimpleBench) | 54.3% ↗ | 18.9% ↗ | +35.4 pt | Claude Sonnet 4.5 |
| WeirdML (Håvard Tveit Ihle) | 47.7% ↗ | 36.1% ↗ | +11.6 pt | Claude Sonnet 4.5 |
| Only Claude Sonnet 4.5 reports · 28 | ||||
| Humanity's Last Exam (no tools) | 17.7% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| ARC-AGI-2 (Verified) | 13.6% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| Chess Puzzles (Epoch AI run) | 12% ↗epoch run | not reported | — | — |
| EBR-bench (Epoch AI run) | 2.4% ↗epoch run | not reported | — | — |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 v2 (Epoch AI run) | 2.4% ↗epoch run | not reported | — | — |
| FrontierMath Tiers 1-3 v2 (Epoch AI run) | 23.9% ↗epoch run | not reported | — | — |
| GDPval-AA | 1276 ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| GSO Opt@1 (GSO) | 12.7% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| Humanity's Last Exam (with tools) | 33.6% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| LMArena WebDev (LMArena) | 1393 ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| MCP Atlas | 43.8% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| MMMLU | 89.5% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| MMMU-Pro (no tools) | 63.4% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| MMMU-Pro (with tools) | 68.9% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| Mystery Game Puzzles (Epoch AI run) | 17% ↗epoch run | not reported | — | — |
| OSWorld-Verified | 61.4% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| OSWorld-Verified (XLANG) | 62.9% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| SAGE (Vals AI) | 36.1% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| SimpleQA Verified | 30.7% ↗epoch run | not reported | — | — |
| SWE-bench Verified (Epoch AI run) | 71.3% ↗epoch run | not reported | — | — |
| tau2-bench Airline (Sierra) | 72% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| tau2-bench Banking Knowledge (Sierra) | 25.3% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| Tau2-bench Retail | 86.2% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| tau2-bench Retail (Sierra) | 72.4% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| Tau2-bench Telecom | 98% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| tau2-bench Telecom (Sierra) | 84.9% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | 51% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| Vending-Bench 2 (Andon Labs) | 3838.74 ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| Only DeepSeek V3 reports · 2 | ||||
| MMLU | not reported | 88.5% ↗ | — | — |
| MMLU-Pro | not reported | 75.9% ↗ | — | — |
Scores tagged "epoch" or "matharena" are independent runs, used only where the lab has not published its own; ⚠ marks rows MathArena flags as released after the competition. Higher is better on every row. Δ is Claude Sonnet 4.5 minus DeepSeek V3 in the benchmark's own unit. "Not reported" means the lab has not published that figure; it is not a zero. ↗ opens the source.
Specs & pricing
Side by side
Official pricing pages and model cards| Spec | Claude Sonnet 4.5 | DeepSeek V3 | Edge |
|---|---|---|---|
| Context window | 200K tokens | 128K tokens | Claude Sonnet 4.5 |
| Max output | 64K tokens | 8K tokens | Claude Sonnet 4.5 |
| Input price / 1M | $3 ↗ | — | — |
| Output price / 1M | $15 ↗ | — | — |
| Cached input / 1M | $0.3 ↗ | — | — |
| Input + output / 1M Lower is cheaper. List prices; batch, tool and regional fees excluded. | $18 | — | — |
| Modalities | text · vision | text | Claude Sonnet 4.5 |
| Released | 2025-09-29 | 2024-12-26 | — |
| Cited benchmark scores | 43 | 14 | — |
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