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Claude Sonnet 4vsDeepSeek V3.2
DeepSeek V3.2 leads 2 of 2 shared benchmarks. Claude Sonnet 4 has the larger context window (200K tokens).
Benchmarks from cited public sources; pricing from official pages; status from official provider feeds.
Shared benchmarks
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DeepSeek V3.2 leads
Cheaper per token
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list price, input + output
Larger context
Claude Sonnet 4
200K tokens
Provider uptime (30d)
100% · 100%
Anthropic · DeepSeek
Claude Sonnet 4
Anthropic · released 2025-05-22
textvision
DeepSeek V3.2
DeepSeek · released 2025-12-01
text
- Context
- 131K
- Max out
- 66K
- Input /1M
- —
- Output /1M
- —
- Cached /1M
- —
- Scores
- 8 · 7 core
Quality
Benchmark matrix
2 shared · 2 only Claude Sonnet 4 · 5 only DeepSeek V3.2| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 4 | DeepSeek V3.2 | Δ | Edge |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reported by both · 2 | ||||
| SWE-bench Verified | 72.7% ↗ | 73.1% ↗ | -0.4 pt | DeepSeek V3.2 |
| GPQA Diamond | 79.2% ↗epoch | 82.4% ↗ | -3.2 pt | DeepSeek V3.2 |
| Only Claude Sonnet 4 reports · 2 | ||||
| AIME 2024 (no extended thinking) | 33.1% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 (Epoch AI run) | 71.1% ↗epoch | not reported | — | — |
| Only DeepSeek V3.2 reports · 5 | ||||
| MMLU-Pro | not reported | 85% ↗ | — | — |
| AIME 2025 | not reported | 93.1% ↗ | — | — |
| AIME 2026 | not reported | 94.2% ↗matharena | — | — |
| Humanity's Last Exam (no tools) | not reported | 25.1% ↗ | — | — |
| LMArena Elo | not reported | 1424.8 ↗ | — | — |
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 minus DeepSeek V3.2 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 | DeepSeek V3.2 | Edge |
|---|---|---|---|
| Context window | 200K tokens | 131K tokens | Claude Sonnet 4 |
| Max output | 64K tokens | 66K tokens | DeepSeek V3.2 |
| 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 |
| Released | 2025-05-22 | 2025-12-01 | — |
| Cited benchmark scores | 4 | 8 | — |
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