# Claude 4 Sonnet vs DeepSeek V3

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for Claude 4 Sonnet and DeepSeek V3 across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/claude-4-sonnet-vs-deepseek-v3
- Last updated: September 29, 2026

- Shared sourced benchmarks: 1
- HTML indexing: indexable
- Ranking lane: BenchAlign v5.7

## Quick Verdict

Evidence is too thin for a benchmark verdict: Claude 4 Sonnet and DeepSeek V3 share only 1 sourced benchmark row.

## Summary

- Only 1 shared sourced benchmark row is available. That is not enough for a broad capability verdict, so this mirror does not name an overall winner.
- DeepSeek V3 has the lower published output-token price.
- Claude 4 Sonnet has the larger published context window at 200K.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | Claude 4 Sonnet | DeepSeek V3 |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | Anthropic | DeepSeek |
| Type | Proprietary | Open Weight |
| Reasoning | Non-Reasoning | Non-Reasoning |
| Context | 200K | 128K |
| Independent public score (not head-to-head) | 35.92 | 31.86 |
| Benchmarks Covered | 3 | 6 |
| Pricing (input/output) | $3.00 / $15.00 | $0.27 / $1.10 |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Claude 4 Sonnet public-lane score: Coming soon
- DeepSeek V3 public-lane score: 12.1 (Estimated · #113/117)

| Benchmark | Claude 4 Sonnet | DeepSeek V3 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Gert Labs | 39.66% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| JobBench | 18.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Coding

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Claude 4 Sonnet public-lane score: Coming soon
- DeepSeek V3 public-lane score: 18.6 (Estimated · #131/143)

| Benchmark | Claude 4 Sonnet | DeepSeek V3 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| SWE-bench Verified | 72.7% | 42% | Claude 4 Sonnet |
| LiveCodeBench | Coming soon | 37.6% | Coming soon |

### Reasoning

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Claude 4 Sonnet public-lane score: 52.5 (Unranked · 2 rankable rows)
- DeepSeek V3 public-lane score: 42.3 (Unranked · 2 rankable rows)

### Multimodal & Grounded

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Claude 4 Sonnet public-lane score: 53 (Unranked · 1 rankable row)
- DeepSeek V3 public-lane score: Coming soon

### Knowledge

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Claude 4 Sonnet public-lane score: 37 (Estimated · #108/169)
- DeepSeek V3 public-lane score: 30.2 (Estimated · #140/169)

| Benchmark | Claude 4 Sonnet | DeepSeek V3 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| GPQA | Coming soon | 59.1% | Coming soon |
| MMLU-Pro | Coming soon | 75.9% | Coming soon |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Claude 4 Sonnet public-lane score: 52 (#78/124)
- DeepSeek V3 public-lane score: 38.2 (#103/124)

| Benchmark | Claude 4 Sonnet | DeepSeek V3 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| IFEval | Coming soon | 86.1% | Coming soon |

### Mathematics

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Claude 4 Sonnet public-lane score: Coming soon
- DeepSeek V3 public-lane score: 26 (Unranked · 1 rankable row)

| Benchmark | Claude 4 Sonnet | DeepSeek V3 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| FrontierMath v2 (Tiers 1-3) | Coming soon | 1.724% | Coming soon |

## FAQ

### Is there enough evidence to pick between Claude 4 Sonnet and DeepSeek V3?

Not yet. The models share only 1 sourced benchmark row, so this mirror reports the available measurements and metadata without naming a broad winner.

### What can I compare safely on this page?

Published pricing, context windows, model type, and individual shared benchmark rows are directly comparable. Independent overall scores and non-overlapping benchmark coverage are labeled separately and should not be read as a controlled head-to-head result.

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