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Claude 3.5 SonnetvsDeepSeek V3
DeepSeek V3 leads 3 of 4 shared benchmarks. Claude 3.5 Sonnet has the larger context window (200K tokens).
Benchmarks from cited public sources; pricing from official pages; status from official provider feeds.
Shared benchmarks
1 – 3
DeepSeek V3 leads
Cheaper per token
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list price, input + output
Larger context
Claude 3.5 Sonnet
200K tokens
Provider uptime (30d)
100% · 100%
Anthropic · DeepSeek
Claude 3.5 Sonnet
Anthropic · released 2024-10-22
textvision
DeepSeek V3
DeepSeek · released 2024-12-26
text
- Context
- 128K
- Max out
- 8K
- Input /1M
- —
- Output /1M
- —
- Cached /1M
- —
- Scores
- 8 · 7 core
Quality
Benchmark matrix
4 shared · 0 only Claude 3.5 Sonnet · 3 only DeepSeek V3| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Sonnet | DeepSeek V3 | Δ | Edge |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reported by both · 4 | ||||
| SWE-bench Verified | 49% ↗ | 42% ↗ | +7 pt | Claude 3.5 Sonnet |
| GPQA Diamond | 55.3% ↗epoch | 59.1% ↗ | -3.8 pt | DeepSeek V3 |
| AIME 2025 | 3.3% ↗matharena | 25% ↗matharena | -21.7 pt | DeepSeek V3 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 (Epoch AI run) | 8.5% ↗epoch | 15.8% ↗epoch | -7.3 pt | DeepSeek V3 |
| Only Claude 3.5 Sonnet reports · 0 | ||||
| Claude 3.5 Sonnet reports nothing DeepSeek V3 does not. | ||||
| Only DeepSeek V3 reports · 3 | ||||
| MMLU | not reported | 88.5% ↗ | — | — |
| MMLU-Pro | not reported | 75.9% ↗ | — | — |
| LMArena Elo | not reported | 1332.4 ↗ | — | — |
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 3.5 Sonnet 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 3.5 Sonnet | DeepSeek V3 | Edge |
|---|---|---|---|
| Context window | 200K tokens | 128K tokens | Claude 3.5 Sonnet |
| Max output | 8K tokens | 8K tokens | Tie |
| 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 3.5 Sonnet |
| Released | 2024-10-22 | 2024-12-26 | — |
| Cited benchmark scores | 4 | 8 | — |
Reliability
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