Side-by-side benchmark comparison across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, and math workflows.
Claude 4 Sonnet is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 38 to 25. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.
Claude 4 Sonnet's sharpest advantage is in reasoning, where it averages 69.9 against 24.9. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is SimpleQA, 71% to 24.9%. DeepSeek V3 does hit back in mathematics, so the answer changes if that is the part of the workload you care about most.
Claude 4 Sonnet gives you the larger context window at 200K, compared with 128K for DeepSeek V3.
Pick Claude 4 Sonnet if you want the stronger benchmark profile. DeepSeek V3 only becomes the better choice if mathematics is the priority.
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Claude 4 Sonnet
68.9
DeepSeek V3
42
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Claude 4 Sonnet
69.9
DeepSeek V3
24.9
Claude 4 Sonnet
70.5
DeepSeek V3
69.6
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Claude 4 Sonnet
72
DeepSeek V3
90.2
Claude 4 Sonnet is ahead overall, 38 to 25. The biggest single separator in this matchup is SimpleQA, where the scores are 71% and 24.9%.
Claude 4 Sonnet has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 70.5 versus 69.6. Inside this category, GPQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Claude 4 Sonnet has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 68.9 versus 42. Inside this category, SWE-bench Verified is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
DeepSeek V3 has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 90.2 versus 72. Inside this category, AIME 2024 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Claude 4 Sonnet has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 69.9 versus 24.9. Inside this category, SimpleQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
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