# Claude Sonnet 4.6 vs DeepSeek-R1-0528

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for Claude Sonnet 4.6 and DeepSeek-R1-0528 across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/claude-sonnet-4-6-vs-deepseek-r1-0528
- Last updated: October 14, 2026

- Shared sourced benchmarks: 4
- HTML indexing: indexable
- Ranking lane: BenchAlign v5.8

## Quick Verdict

Pick DeepSeek-R1-0528 if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Claude Sonnet 4.6 only makes more sense when its price, context window, or workload-specific category wins matter more than the overall score.

## Summary

- DeepSeek-R1-0528 leads overall 60 to 55.63.
- The biggest single benchmark swing is HLE in Knowledge, with scores of 49% and 17.7%.
- Claude Sonnet 4.6 also has the larger context window at 200K.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | Claude Sonnet 4.6 | DeepSeek-R1-0528 |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | Anthropic | DeepSeek |
| Type | Proprietary | Open Weight |
| Reasoning | Non-Reasoning | Reasoning |
| Context | 200K | 128K |
| Overall Score | 55.63 | null |
| Benchmarks Covered | 27 | 10 |
| Pricing (input/output) | $3.00 / $15.00 | N/A |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Not comparable
- Claude Sonnet 4.6 public-lane score: 43.6 (Supported · #58/124)
- DeepSeek-R1-0528 public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 4.6 | DeepSeek-R1-0528 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | 59.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| OSWorld-Verified | 72.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Claw-Eval | 67.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| CyberGym | 65.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Gert Labs | 62.92% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| OSWorld 2.0 | 8.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| JobBench | 36.9% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals) | 57.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| ApprenticeBench | 2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Coding

- Winner: Not comparable
- Claude Sonnet 4.6 public-lane score: 45 (Supported · #52/149)
- DeepSeek-R1-0528 public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 4.6 | DeepSeek-R1-0528 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| SWE-bench Verified | 79.6% | 57.6% | Claude Sonnet 4.6 |
| SWE-Rebench | 60.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| React Native Evals | 80.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | 59.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Vibe Code Bench | 51.48% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| cursorBench31 | 48.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| FrontierCode 1.1 Main | 24.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| LiveCodeBench (Vals) | 82.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench (Vals) | 77.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| LiveCodeBench | Coming soon | 73.3% | Coming soon |
| Codeforces | Coming soon | 1930.0 | Coming soon |

### Reasoning

- Winner: Not comparable
- Claude Sonnet 4.6 public-lane score: 62.8 (Unranked · 4 rankable rows)
- DeepSeek-R1-0528 public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 4.6 | DeepSeek-R1-0528 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| ARC-AGI-2 | 58.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 86.00% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Multimodal & Grounded

- Winner: Not comparable
- Claude Sonnet 4.6 public-lane score: 58.7 (#45/54)
- DeepSeek-R1-0528 public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 4.6 | DeepSeek-R1-0528 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| CharXiv | 77.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Knowledge

- Winner: Not comparable
- Claude Sonnet 4.6 public-lane score: 54.7 (Supported · #61/181)
- DeepSeek-R1-0528 public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 4.6 | DeepSeek-R1-0528 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| GPQA | 89.9% | 81% | Claude Sonnet 4.6 |
| SuperGPQA | 95% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MMLU-Pro | 79.2% | 85% | DeepSeek-R1-0528 |
| HLE | 49% | 17.7% | Claude Sonnet 4.6 |
| GPQA Diamond (Vals) | 85.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MMLU-Pro (Vals) | 87.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MMLU-Redux | Coming soon | 93.4% | Coming soon |
| SimpleQA | Coming soon | 27.8% | Coming soon |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Not comparable
- Claude Sonnet 4.6 public-lane score: 48 (#89/128)
- DeepSeek-R1-0528 public-lane score: Coming soon

### Mathematics

- Winner: Not comparable
- Claude Sonnet 4.6 public-lane score: Coming soon
- DeepSeek-R1-0528 public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 4.6 | DeepSeek-R1-0528 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| AIME 2024 | Coming soon | 91.4% | Coming soon |
| AIME 2025 | Coming soon | 87.5% | Coming soon |

## FAQ

### Which is better overall, Claude Sonnet 4.6 or DeepSeek-R1-0528?

DeepSeek-R1-0528 is ahead overall on BenchLM right now.

### How many benchmarks does Claude Sonnet 4.6 cover on BenchLM?

Claude Sonnet 4.6 currently has 27 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

### How many benchmarks does DeepSeek-R1-0528 cover on BenchLM?

DeepSeek-R1-0528 currently has 10 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

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