Benchmark scores
Higher is better for all benchmark scores (SWE-bench, GPQA, HLE, Terminal-Bench, etc.). Green marks the model with the higher score.
LLM Comparison
Claude Sonnet 5 vs DeepSeek V4.1 Flash: benchmark scores, pricing & comparison.
Side-by-side Claude Sonnet 5 vs DeepSeek V4.1 Flash comparison across SWE-bench, GPQA, HLE, Terminal-Bench, coding agent scores, token pricing, context window, and AskClash RWT. Green marks the winner on each benchmark.
Rank #17 vs #22AskClash overall scores 63.4 vs 61.7.
Pricing $3.00/$15.0 vs $0.15/$0.60Input and output token prices per 1M tokens when published.
Proprietary vs APIAnthropic vs DeepSeek.
Claude Sonnet 5 vs DeepSeek V4.1 Flash benchmark comparison
Green cells highlight the winning model for each metric. Scores are cached from the AskClash LLM leaderboard snapshot.
| Metric | Claude Sonnet 5 | DeepSeek V4.1 Flash |
|---|---|---|
| Overall Score | 63.4 | 61.7 |
| Leaderboard Rank | #17 | #22 |
| ACB | 60.8 | — |
| RWT | 8.5 | — |
| HLE | 57.4 | 36.8 |
| GPQA | 91.1 | 90.9 |
| SWE-bench | 85.2 | — |
| SWE-Pro | 63.2 | — |
| Terminal-Bench | 80.4 | 90.6 |
| DeepSWE | 53.8 | 74.2 |
| GDPval-AA | 1618.0 | — |
| OSWorld | 81.2 | — |
| CharXiv | 88.3 | — |
| MMMU-Pro | 77.3 | — |
| Input Price (per 1M tokens) | $3.00 | $0.15 |
| Output Price (per 1M tokens) | $15.0 | $0.60 |
| Context Window | 1M | 1M |
| Benchmarks Published | 12 | 4 |
Claude Sonnet 5 vs DeepSeek V4.1 Flash head-to-head charts
Claude Sonnet 5 leads 3 and DeepSeek V4.1 Flash leads 2 of 5 shared benchmarks. DeepSeek V4.1 Flash is cheaper on a defined 1M-input / 200K-output workload. Charts show only benchmarks both models publish.
Claude Sonnet 5DeepSeek V4.1 Flash
Overall
HLE
GPQA
Terminal-Bench
DeepSWE
Claude Sonnet 5
Input$3.00
Output$15.0
Workload$6.00
Context1M
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash
Input$0.15
Output$0.60
Workload$0.27
Context1M
Workload = published cost of 1M input + 200K output tokens. Open the live leaderboard for interactive compare charts.
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Token pricing
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