Model Comparison

Comprehensive side-by-side analysis of model capabilities and performance

Anthropic

Claude Sonnet 4.5

Anthropic

Claude Sonnet 4.5 is a multimodal language model developed by Anthropic. It achieves strong performance with an average score of 78.0% across 10 benchmarks. It excels particularly in Tau2 Telecom (98.0%), MMMLU (89.1%), AIME 2025 (87.0%). It supports a 264K token context window for handling large documents. The model is available through 2 API providers. As a multimodal model, it can process and understand text, images, and other input formats seamlessly. Released in 2025, it represents Anthropic's latest advancement in AI technology.

DeepSeek

DeepSeek-V2.5

DeepSeek

DeepSeek-V2.5 is a language model developed by DeepSeek. It achieves strong performance with an average score of 71.1% across 15 benchmarks. It excels particularly in GSM8k (95.1%), MT-Bench (90.2%), HumanEval (89.0%). The model is available through 3 API providers. Released in 2024, it represents DeepSeek's latest advancement in AI technology.

DeepSeek

DeepSeek-V2.5

DeepSeek

2024-05-08

Anthropic

Claude Sonnet 4.5

Anthropic

2025-09-29

1 year newer

Pricing Comparison

Cost per million tokens (USD)

Anthropic

Claude Sonnet 4.5

Input:$3.00
Output:$15.00
DeepSeek

DeepSeek-V2.5

$17.58 cheaper
Input:$0.14
Output:$0.28

Performance Metrics

Context window and performance specifications

Anthropic

Claude Sonnet 4.5

Larger context
Max Context:264.0K
DeepSeek

DeepSeek-V2.5

Max Context:16.4K
Parameters:236.0B

Average performance across 24 common benchmarks

Anthropic

Claude Sonnet 4.5

Average Score:32.5%
DeepSeek

DeepSeek-V2.5

+11.9%
Average Score:44.4%

Performance comparison across key benchmark categories

Anthropic

Claude Sonnet 4.5

math
+2.1%
87.0%
general
+9.6%
78.0%
code
50.0%
DeepSeek

DeepSeek-V2.5

math
84.9%
general
68.4%
code
+16.1%
66.1%
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

Anthropic

Claude Sonnet 4.5

2 providers

Anthropic

Throughput: 42 tok/s
Latency: 0.4ms

ZeroEval

Throughput: 42 tok/s
Latency: 0.4ms
DeepSeek

DeepSeek-V2.5

3 providers

Hyperbolic

Throughput: 100 tok/s
Latency: 0.5ms

DeepInfra

Throughput: 63 tok/s
Latency: 0.5ms

DeepSeek

Throughput: 100 tok/s
Latency: 0.5ms
Anthropic

Claude Sonnet 4.5

Avg Score:32.5%
Providers:2
DeepSeek

DeepSeek-V2.5

+11.9%
Avg Score:44.4%
Providers:3