Quality
Known Good Index and the capability indices, side by side
Each index is min-max normalised across tracked models and scaled 0–100 from published evaluations. We do not run these evaluations.
| Metric | Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 4.6 | DeepSeek: DeepSeek V3 0324 |
|---|---|---|
| Known Good Index | 80 | 60 |
| Coding Index | 71 | — |
| Mathematics Index | 86 | 57 |
| Science Index | 91 | 67 |
| Reasoning Index | — | 65 |
| Agentic Index | 71 | — |
| Openness Index | 5 | 100 |
Quality Breakdown
Every evaluation both models report a published score for
Bar = Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 4.6 · marker = DeepSeek: DeepSeek V3 0324 · scores ingested from Epoch AI (CC-BY 4.0)
Right-hand figures read Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 4.6 / DeepSeek: DeepSeek V3 0324. Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 4.6 leads on 2 of 2, DeepSeek: DeepSeek V3 0324 on 0.
Arena Elo
Human preference rating from blind pairwise votes
Elo from blind pairwise votes, ingested from Arena. Higher is better.
| Metric | Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 4.6 | DeepSeek: DeepSeek V3 0324 |
|---|---|---|
| Text Arena | 1,458 | 1,375 |
| Text Arena (style controlled) | 1,473 | 1,396 |
Price & Cost
Published API pricing by token type
USD per 1M tokens. Blended is a 3:1 input:output mix. Live from OpenRouter, cross-checked against models.dev. Lower is better.
| Metric | Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 4.6 | DeepSeek: DeepSeek V3 0324 |
|---|---|---|
| Input $/1M | $3.00 | $0.27 |
| Output $/1M | $15.00 | $1.12 |
| Blended $/1M | $6.00 | $0.48 |
| Cache read $/1M | $0.300 | $0.135 |
Context Window
Maximum input accepted and maximum output emitted
Provider-declared limits, from metadata via models.dev and OpenRouter. Higher is better.
| Metric | Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 4.6 | DeepSeek: DeepSeek V3 0324 |
|---|---|---|
| Context window | 1.00M | 164k |
| Max output tokens | 128k | 66k |
Speed & Latency
Median throughput and time to first token across hosting providers
Medians across all tracked providers, derived from OpenRouter endpoint telemetry.
| Metric | Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 4.6 | DeepSeek: DeepSeek V3 0324 |
|---|---|---|
| Output tokens/s | 41 | 26 |
| Time to first token | 1.6s | 1.1s |
Providers
Which hosts serve each model, and at what price and speed
| Provider | Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 4.6 blended | Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 4.6 tok/s | DeepSeek: DeepSeek V3 0324 blended | DeepSeek: DeepSeek V3 0324 tok/s |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amazon Bedrock · first party | $6.00 | 41 | — | — |
| Google · first party | $6.00 | 41 | — | — |
| Anthropic · first party | $6.00 | 38 | — | — |
| Azure · first party | $6.00 | — | — | — |
| Crusoe | — | — | $0.75 | 37 |
| Novita | — | — | $0.48 | 30 |
| DeepInfra | — | — | $0.41 | 25 |
| SiliconFlow | — | — | $0.44 | 21 |
Per-host pricing and telemetry from OpenRouter. A dash means that host does not serve that model.