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Claude Sonnet 4.5 vs DeepSeek V4 Flash

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Winner summary

Not enough overlapping benchmarks to declare a winner yet · Claude Sonnet 4.5 · DeepSeek V4 Flash are still filling in scores.

Hype vs Reality
Claude Sonnet 4.5
#174 by perf·no signal
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DeepSeek V4 Flash
#31 by perf·no signal
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Best value
121.2x better value than Claude Sonnet 4.5
Claude Sonnet 4.5
4.4 pts/$
$9.00/M
DeepSeek V4 Flash
533.3 pts/$
$0.13/M
Vendor risk
One or more vendors flagged
Anthropic logo
Anthropic
$380.0B·Tier 1
Medium risk
DeepSeek logo
DeepSeek
$3.4B·Tier 1
Higher risk
Pricing · per 1M tokens · projected $/mo at 10M tokens
ModelInputOutputContextProjected $/mo
Anthropic logoClaude Sonnet 4.5$3.00$15.001.0M tokens (~500 books)$60.00
DeepSeek logoDeepSeek V4 Flash$0.08$0.171.0M tokens (~524 books)$1.05