Anthropic's fifth-generation Sonnet — near-Opus intelligence at Sonnet speed and price.
Updated DeepSeek R1 with performance on par with OpenAI o1.
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No captured outputs for these models yet.
Based on the Capability Index, Claude Sonnet 5 scores higher (80.1 vs 74.5). However, "better" depends on your use case — pricing, speed, context window, and specific capability needs all matter.
DeepSeek R1 (0528) has a lower blended cost. Claude Sonnet 5: $2.00 input / $10.00 output. DeepSeek R1 (0528): $0.50 input / $2.15 output.
Claude Sonnet 5 has a larger context window: Claude Sonnet 5 supports 1M tokens vs DeepSeek R1 (0528) at 164K tokens.
Claude Sonnet 5 supports vision/image input, but DeepSeek R1 (0528) does not.
Key differences: Claude Sonnet 5 has a notably higher capability index (5.6 point gap); DeepSeek R1 (0528) is significantly cheaper; only Claude Sonnet 5 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 5 and DeepSeek R1 (0528) for free on idapt.app to see which performs better for your specific needs.