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Claude Haiku 4.5 vs DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017

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Winner summary

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 wins 7 of 7 shared benchmarks. Leads in agentic · reasoning · knowledge.

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Hype vs Reality
Claude Haiku 4.5
#247 by perf·#17 by attention
QUIET
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017
#41 by perf·#4 by attention
DESERVED
Best value
22.8x better value than Claude Haiku 4.5
Claude Haiku 4.5
11.2 pts/$
$3.00/M
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017
254.9 pts/$
$0.25/M
Vendor risk
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Anthropic logo
Anthropic
$965.0B·Tier 1
Medium risk
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DeepSeek
$3.4B·Tier 1
Higher risk
Head to head
Claude Haiku 4.5DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017
APEX-Agents
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 leads by +60.9
APEX-Agents · evaluates AI agents on complex, multi-step tasks requiring planning, tool use, and autonomous decision-making in realistic environments.
Claude Haiku 4.5
8.9
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017
69.8
ARC-AGI
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 leads by +46.8
ARC-AGI · the original Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus, testing whether AI can solve novel visual pattern recognition tasks without memorization.
Claude Haiku 4.5
47.7
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017
94.5
ARC-AGI-2
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 leads by +74.0
ARC-AGI-2 · the second iteration of the Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus, testing novel pattern recognition and abstract reasoning without prior training data.
Claude Haiku 4.5
4.0
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017
78.1
Chess Puzzles
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 leads by +40.0
Chess Puzzles · tests strategic and tactical reasoning by having models solve chess puzzle positions, evaluating lookahead and pattern recognition abilities.
Claude Haiku 4.5
3.2
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017
43.2
GPQA diamond
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 leads by +33.1
Graduate-Level Google-Proof QA (Diamond set) · expert-crafted questions in physics, biology, and chemistry that are difficult even for domain PhDs.
Claude Haiku 4.5
61.6
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017
94.7
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 leads by +32.8
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 · simulated American Invitational Mathematics Examination problems testing advanced problem-solving skills.
Claude Haiku 4.5
66.6
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017
99.4
SimpleQA Verified
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 leads by +36.6
SimpleQA Verified · short factual questions with verified answers, measuring factual accuracy and the tendency to hallucinate or provide incorrect information.
Claude Haiku 4.5
5.9
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017
42.5
Full benchmark table
BenchmarkClaude Haiku 4.5DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017
APEX-Agents
APEX-Agents · evaluates AI agents on complex, multi-step tasks requiring planning, tool use, and autonomous decision-making in realistic environments.
8.969.8
ARC-AGI
ARC-AGI · the original Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus, testing whether AI can solve novel visual pattern recognition tasks without memorization.
47.794.5
ARC-AGI-2
ARC-AGI-2 · the second iteration of the Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus, testing novel pattern recognition and abstract reasoning without prior training data.
4.078.1
Chess Puzzles
Chess Puzzles · tests strategic and tactical reasoning by having models solve chess puzzle positions, evaluating lookahead and pattern recognition abilities.
3.243.2
GPQA diamond
Graduate-Level Google-Proof QA (Diamond set) · expert-crafted questions in physics, biology, and chemistry that are difficult even for domain PhDs.
61.694.7
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 · simulated American Invitational Mathematics Examination problems testing advanced problem-solving skills.
66.699.4
SimpleQA Verified
SimpleQA Verified · short factual questions with verified answers, measuring factual accuracy and the tendency to hallucinate or provide incorrect information.
5.942.5
Pricing · per 1M tokens · projected $/mo at 10M tokens
ModelInputOutputContextProjected $/mo
Anthropic logoClaude Haiku 4.5$1.00$5.00200K tokens (~100 books)$20.00
DeepSeek logoDeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017$0.01$0.501.0M tokens (~524 books)$1.29