Claude Sonnet 4.6 vs DeepSeek V3.2
Head to head on 23 shared benchmarks, with price, context window, and release dates.
Benchmark scores
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| Claude Sonnet 4.6 Anthropic | 65.3% | 76.0% | 1810elo | 79.9 | 32.4% | 87.5% | 33.6% | 56.6% | 92.2% | 78.4% | 80.0% | 76.1% | 63.9% | 77.7% | 86.5% | 86.4% | 45.0% | 50.1% | 77.1% | 53.0% | 76.3 | 51.5% | 75.7% | - | 87.1% | - | - | 47.2% | 47.6% | - | 1.35 | 1207elo | 51.0% | - | - | - | - | 89.3 | 67.7% | 72.1% | 46.6% | - | - | 50.6% | 60.6% | 64.7% |
| DeepSeek V3.2 DeepSeek | 47.9% | 13.0% | 1515elo | 66.8 | 22.1% | 84.0% | 24.6% | 60.7% | 68.0% | 65.9% | 64.6% | 50.0% | 48.2% | 70.4% | 85.0% | 77.2% | 8.0% | 38.9% | 68.2% | 35.6% | 65 | 5.1% | 90.6% | 74.7% | - | 74.2% | 92.0% | - | - | 0.0% | - | - | - | 31.3% | 86.2% | 57.5% | 86.2% | - | - | - | - | 59.0% | 70.0% | - | - | 55.3% |
2 / 2 models
| Attribute | Claude Sonnet 4.6 Anthropic | DeepSeek V3.2 DeepSeek |
|---|---|---|
| Description | Claude Sonnet 4.6 is an AI model from Anthropic. | DeepSeek V3.2 is an AI model from DeepSeek, released with open weights. |
| Family | Claude | Deepseek |
| Params | - | - |
| Open weights | closed | open |
| License | proprietary | mit |
| Released | 17 Feb 2026 | 1 Dec 2025 |
| Context | 1,000,000 | 163,840 |
| Input $/1M | $3.00 | $0.28 |
| Output $/1M | $15.00 | $0.42 |
| Cache read $/1M | $0.300 | $0.135 |
| Cache write $/1M | $3.750 | - |
| Speed | 0 tok/s | 0 tok/s |
| Latency | 0.00 s | 0.00 s |
| Modalities | text, image, file | text |
| Providers | - | - |
| Publisher | Anthropic | DeepSeek |
| Reported scores | Aider Polyglot Benchmark74.2% (Aider) MathArena57.47% GPQA Diamond84.0% (AA) Humanity's Last Exam (HLE)24.6% (AA) |
FAQ
- Is Claude Sonnet 4.6 or DeepSeek V3.2 better?
- Across the 23 benchmarks both models report on Sophon, Claude Sonnet 4.6 leads on 21 of them. Which one is "better" depends on the benchmark - the table above shows every shared score.
- How do Claude Sonnet 4.6 and DeepSeek V3.2 compare on GPQA Diamond?
- Claude Sonnet 4.6 scores 87.5% and DeepSeek V3.2 scores 84.0% on GPQA Diamond.
- Which is cheaper, Claude Sonnet 4.6 or DeepSeek V3.2?
- DeepSeek V3.2 is cheaper at $0.42 per million output tokens against $15.00 for Claude Sonnet 4.6 - about 35.7x.
- When were Claude Sonnet 4.6 and DeepSeek V3.2 released?
- Claude Sonnet 4.6 was released 17 Feb 2026 by Anthropic. DeepSeek V3.2 was released 1 Dec 2025 by DeepSeek.
Other head-to-heads
56Claude Sonnet 4.6 vs Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview32 shared evalsClaude Sonnet 4.6 vs GPT-5.530 shared evalsDeepSeek V3.2 vs GPT-5.229 shared evalsClaude Opus 4.8 vs Claude Sonnet 4.629 shared evalsClaude Opus 4.7 vs Claude Sonnet 4.629 shared evalsClaude Fable 5 vs Claude Sonnet 4.628 shared evalsClaude Opus 4.6 vs Claude Sonnet 4.628 shared evalsClaude Sonnet 4.6 vs GPT-5.428 shared evalsClaude Sonnet 4.6 vs GPT-5.4 Mini28 shared evalsClaude Sonnet 4.5 vs DeepSeek V3.227 shared evalsClaude Opus 4.5 vs DeepSeek V3.227 shared evalsClaude Sonnet 4.6 vs Kimi K2.527 shared evalsDeepSeek V3.2 vs GPT-5 Mini26 shared evalsClaude Opus 4.6 vs DeepSeek V3.226 shared evalsClaude Sonnet 4.6 vs Qwen3.6 Plus26 shared evalsDeepSeek V3.2 vs Grok 4.1 Fast26 shared evalsDeepSeek V3.2 vs Kimi K2.525 shared evalsClaude Sonnet 4.6 vs GLM 5.125 shared evalsClaude Sonnet 4.5 vs Claude Sonnet 4.624 shared evalsDeepSeek V3.2 vs Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview24 shared evalsClaude Sonnet 4.6 vs GPT-5.224 shared evalsDeepSeek V3.2 vs GPT-5.424 shared evalsDeepSeek V3.2 vs GLM 5.124 shared evalsClaude Sonnet 4.6 vs GPT-5 Mini23 shared evalsDeepSeek V3.2 vs GPT-5.523 shared evalsClaude Opus 4.5 vs Claude Sonnet 4.623 shared evalsClaude Opus 4.7 vs DeepSeek V3.223 shared evalsDeepSeek V3.2 vs gpt-oss-120b23 shared evalsDeepSeek V3.2 vs GPT-5 Nano22 shared evalsClaude Opus 4.8 vs DeepSeek V3.222 shared evalsClaude Sonnet 4.6 vs Grok 4.1 Fast22 shared evalsDeepSeek V3.2 vs GLM 4.722 shared evalsDeepSeek V3.2 vs GPT-5.4 Mini22 shared evalsClaude 4 Sonnet vs DeepSeek V3.221 shared evalsDeepSeek V3.2 vs Gemini 2.5 Pro21 shared evalsClaude Sonnet 4.6 vs GPT-5 Nano20 shared evalsClaude Fable 5 vs DeepSeek V3.220 shared evalsClaude 4 Sonnet vs Claude Sonnet 4.620 shared evalsDeepSeek V3.2 vs Qwen3.6 Plus20 shared evalsDeepSeek V3.2 vs GPT-519 shared evalsClaude Sonnet 4.6 vs Gemini 2.5 Pro19 shared evalsClaude Sonnet 4.6 vs GLM 4.719 shared evalsClaude Sonnet 4.6 vs gpt-oss-120b18 shared evalsDeepSeek V3.2 vs GPT-4o18 shared evalsClaude Sonnet 4.6 vs GPT-516 shared evalsDeepSeek V3.2 vs GPT-4.1 Mini15 shared evalsDeepSeek V3.2 vs GPT-4.115 shared evalsDeepSeek V3.2 vs GPT-4o-mini15 shared evalsDeepSeek V3.2 vs GPT-4.1 Nano15 shared evalsClaude Sonnet 4.6 vs GPT-4o14 shared evalsClaude Sonnet 4.6 vs GPT-6 Astra13 shared evalsClaude Sonnet 4.6 vs GPT-4.1 Mini12 shared evalsClaude Sonnet 4.6 vs GPT-4.112 shared evalsClaude Sonnet 4.6 vs GPT-4o-mini12 shared evalsClaude Sonnet 4.6 vs GPT-4.1 Nano12 shared evalsDeepSeek V3.2 vs GPT-6 Astra9 shared evals
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