claude-sonnet-4-5 vs deepseek-v4-pro
Side-by-side comparison of claude-sonnet-4-5 and deepseek-v4-pro: benchmarks, pricing, context window and capabilities. Both are accessible through Requesty's unified API. deepseek-v4-pro outperforms claude-sonnet-4-5 on 5 of 5 shared benchmarks.
claude-sonnet-4-5
Input / 1M
$3.00
Output / 1M
$15.00
Context
1M
Model ID
anthropic/claude-sonnet-4-5
Fireworks AI
deepseek-v4-pro
Input / 1M
$1.74
Output / 1M
$3.48
Context
1M
Model ID
fireworks/deepseek-v4-pro
Benchmark comparison
Intelligence Indexreasoning
claude-sonnet-4-537.4%
deepseek-v4-pro53.0%
Coding Indexcoding
claude-sonnet-4-552.1%
deepseek-v4-pro68.8%
Math Indexmath
claude-sonnet-4-588.0%
deepseek-v4-proN/A
GPQA Diamondreasoning
claude-sonnet-4-583.4%
deepseek-v4-pro92.8%
AIME 2025math
claude-sonnet-4-588.0%
deepseek-v4-proN/A
LiveCodeBenchcoding
claude-sonnet-4-571.4%
deepseek-v4-proN/A
Terminal-Bench Hardagentic
claude-sonnet-4-535.6%
deepseek-v4-proN/A
τ²-Benchagentic
claude-sonnet-4-578.1%
deepseek-v4-proN/A
SciCodecoding
claude-sonnet-4-544.7%
deepseek-v4-pro49.2%
MMLU Proknowledge
claude-sonnet-4-587.5%
deepseek-v4-proN/A
Humanity's Last Examreasoning
claude-sonnet-4-517.8%
deepseek-v4-pro39.3%
Scores sourced from official model cards, Artificial Analysis, and public leaderboards. Benchmarks measure specific skills and don't capture every aspect of model quality.
Pricing & specifications
| claude-sonnet-4-5 | deepseek-v4-pro | |
|---|---|---|
| Input price / 1M | $3.00 | $1.74 |
| Output price / 1M | $15.00 | $3.48 |
| Context window | 1M tokens | 1M tokens |
| Max output | 64K tokens | 131K tokens |
| Vision input | Yes | N/A |
| Tool calling | Yes | Yes |
| Reasoning | Yes | Yes |
| Prompt caching | Yes | Yes |
| Computer use | Yes | N/A |
| Provider | Anthropic PBC | Fireworks AI |
Questions people ask
Is claude-sonnet-4-5 better than deepseek-v4-pro?
deepseek-v4-pro outperforms claude-sonnet-4-5 on 5 of 5 shared benchmarks. See the benchmark comparison above for specifics: claude-sonnet-4-5 and deepseek-v4-pro have different strengths across reasoning, coding, math and multimodal tasks.
Which is cheaper, claude-sonnet-4-5 or deepseek-v4-pro?
deepseek-v4-pro is cheaper. claude-sonnet-4-5 costs $3.00/$15.00 per 1M input/output tokens, while deepseek-v4-pro costs $1.74/$3.48.
Can I use claude-sonnet-4-5 and deepseek-v4-pro through the same API?
Yes. Requesty provides a single OpenAI-compatible API that routes to both. Change just the "model" parameter to switch between "anthropic/claude-sonnet-4-5" and "fireworks/deepseek-v4-pro", no other code changes needed.
What are the context windows?
claude-sonnet-4-5 supports up to 1M tokens of context. deepseek-v4-pro supports up to 1M tokens. Longer context means you can feed larger documents or codebases in a single prompt, though quality often degrades past 128K for most models.
Switch between claude-sonnet-4-5 and deepseek-v4-pro with one line of code
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