Experimental DeepSeek V3.2 variant with DeepSeek Sparse Attention.
Anthropic's fifth-generation Sonnet — near-Opus intelligence at Sonnet speed and price.
No shared demos for these models yet.
No captured outputs for these models yet.
Based on the Capability Index, Claude Sonnet 5 scores higher (80.1 vs 77.2). However, "better" depends on your use case — pricing, speed, context window, and specific capability needs all matter.
DeepSeek V3.2 Exp has a lower blended cost. DeepSeek V3.2 Exp: $0.27 input / $0.41 output. Claude Sonnet 5: $2.00 input / $10.00 output.
Claude Sonnet 5 has a larger context window: DeepSeek V3.2 Exp supports 164K tokens vs Claude Sonnet 5 at 1M tokens.
Claude Sonnet 5 supports vision/image input, but DeepSeek V3.2 Exp does not.
Key differences: DeepSeek V3.2 Exp 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 DeepSeek V3.2 Exp and Claude Sonnet 5 for free on idapt.app to see which performs better for your specific needs.