Significantly enhanced over Sonnet 3.7 in coding and reasoning tasks.
Efficiency-optimized DeepSeek V4 at 284B total / 13B active for fast, high-throughput inference.
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Both Claude Sonnet 4 and DeepSeek V4 Flash are capable AI models. The best choice depends on your specific use case: consider pricing, context window, speed, and which capabilities (vision, reasoning, audio) you need.
DeepSeek V4 Flash has a lower blended cost. Claude Sonnet 4: $3.00 input / $15.00 output. DeepSeek V4 Flash: $0.09 input / $0.19 output.
DeepSeek V4 Flash has a larger context window: Claude Sonnet 4 supports 200K tokens vs DeepSeek V4 Flash at 1M tokens.
Claude Sonnet 4 supports vision/image input, but DeepSeek V4 Flash does not.
Key differences: DeepSeek V4 Flash is significantly cheaper; only Claude Sonnet 4 supports vision input. Compare full specs on this page.
If cost is your priority, choose the cheaper option. If you need the highest intelligence for complex tasks, pick the higher-scoring model. For long documents or codebases, choose the larger context window. You can try both Claude Sonnet 4 and DeepSeek V4 Flash for free on idapt.app to see which performs better for your specific needs.