Claude 4.6 Sonnet vs DeepSeek-V4-Flash
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 Claude 4.6 SonnetAnthropic |  DeepSeek-V4-FlashDeepSeek | |
|---|---|---|
| Vendor | Anthropic | DeepSeek |
| Family | Claude | DeepSeek |
| Release date | 2026-02-17 | 2026-04-22 |
| Context window | 1,000,000 tokens | 1,000,000 tokens |
| Parameters | — | 284B (13B active) |
| Modality | text, vision | text |
| License | proprietary | MIT |
| Source | proprietary | open weights |
| Description | Anthropic's mid-tier flagship — released 12 days after Opus 4.6 and matching most of its capabilities at ~40% the API cost ($3/$15 per 1M tokens). 1M-token context. | Smaller, faster sibling to DeepSeek-V4-Pro. Same 1M context window with a much lighter 284B / 13B-active MoE. |
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| Benchmarks | ||
| MMLU-Pro | 85.4% | — |
| GPQA-D | 85.8% | — |
| HumanEval | 95.9% | — |
| Aider | 83.6% | — |
| AIME-25 | 87.4% | — |
| LiveCB | 73.8% | — |
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