deepseek-r1 vs claude-sonnet-4-6
Side-by-side comparison of deepseek-r1 and claude-sonnet-4-6— benchmarks, pricing, context window and capabilities. Both are accessible through Requesty's unified API. claude-sonnet-4-6 outperforms deepseek-r1 on 6 of 8 shared benchmarks.
deepseek-r1
Input / 1M
$4.00
Output / 1M
$4.00
Context
64K
Model ID
novita/deepseek/deepseek-r1
claude-sonnet-4-6
Input / 1M
$3.00
Output / 1M
$15.00
Context
1M
Model ID
anthropic/claude-sonnet-4-6
Benchmark comparison
MMLU Proknowledge
deepseek-r185.0%
claude-sonnet-4-685.2%
GPQA Diamondreasoning
deepseek-r171.5%
claude-sonnet-4-676.8%
HumanEvalcoding
deepseek-r192.0%
claude-sonnet-4-693.5%
SWE-Bench Verifiedcoding
deepseek-r149.2%
claude-sonnet-4-677.2%
MATHmath
deepseek-r192.2%
claude-sonnet-4-689.4%
AIME 2024math
deepseek-r179.8%
claude-sonnet-4-680.4%
MMMUmultimodal
deepseek-r174.8%
claude-sonnet-4-674.3%
LiveBenchreasoning
deepseek-r171.5%
claude-sonnet-4-671.8%
τ-bench Retailagentic
deepseek-r1—
claude-sonnet-4-670.1%
Scores sourced from official model cards, Artificial Analysis, and public leaderboards. Benchmarks measure specific skills and don't capture every aspect of model quality.
Pricing & specifications
| deepseek-r1 | claude-sonnet-4-6 | |
|---|---|---|
| Input price / 1M | $4.00 | $3.00 |
| Output price / 1M | $4.00 | $15.00 |
| Context window | 64K tokens | 1M tokens |
| Max output | — | 64K tokens |
| Vision input | — | Yes |
| Tool calling | Yes | Yes |
| Reasoning | — | Yes |
| Prompt caching | — | Yes |
| Computer use | — | Yes |
| Provider | Novita AI | Anthropic PBC |
Questions people ask
Is deepseek-r1 better than claude-sonnet-4-6?
claude-sonnet-4-6 outperforms deepseek-r1 on 6 of 8 shared benchmarks. See the benchmark comparison above for specifics — deepseek-r1 and claude-sonnet-4-6 have different strengths across reasoning, coding, math and multimodal tasks.
Which is cheaper — deepseek-r1 or claude-sonnet-4-6?
deepseek-r1 is cheaper. deepseek-r1 costs $4.00/$4.00 per 1M input/output tokens, while claude-sonnet-4-6 costs $3.00/$15.00.
Can I use deepseek-r1 and claude-sonnet-4-6 through the same API?
Yes. Requesty provides a single OpenAI-compatible API that routes to both. Change just the "model" parameter to switch — "novita/deepseek/deepseek-r1" or "anthropic/claude-sonnet-4-6" — no other code changes needed.
What are the context windows?
deepseek-r1 supports up to 64K tokens of context. claude-sonnet-4-6 supports up to 1M tokens. Longer context means you can feed larger documents or codebases in a single prompt, though quality often degrades past 128K for most models.
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