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claude-3-7-sonnet-20250219 vs DeepSeek: R1 ·Anthropic vs DeepSeek

claude-3-7-sonnet-20250219 vs DeepSeek: R1 — head-to-head comparison

claude-3-7-sonnet-20250219 profile DeepSeek: R1 profile All comparisons
claude-3-7-sonnet-20250219 — Anthropic
Quality
#24 of 65
74based on 5 of 7 evaluations
Known Good Index
Speed
unranked
Output tokens per second
Price
unranked
Blended per 1M tokens
Cache hit price
unranked
per 1M tokens
Context
unranked
tokens
DeepSeek: R1 — DeepSeek
Quality
#22 of 65
75based on 4 of 7 evaluations
Known Good Index
Speed
#311 of 341
19.6
Output tokens per second
Price
#258 of 450
$1.15
Blended per 1M tokens
In $0.70 · Out $2.50
Cache hit price
unranked
per 1M tokens
Context
#455 of 487
64k
tokens (~98 pages)
Summary

On the Known Good Index, claude-3-7-sonnet-20250219 scores 74 and DeepSeek: R1 scores 75, which puts them level. They share 10 published evaluations, with claude-3-7-sonnet-20250219 ahead on 7 and DeepSeek: R1 ahead on 2.

Published pricing is tracked for DeepSeek: R1 only, at $1.15 per 1M tokens blended.

claude-3-7-sonnet-20250219 is proprietary; DeepSeek: R1 is open weights under Open weights (unrestricted). 2 tracked hosts serve one or both.

Generated from tracked data on 9 Sep 2026 · how these comparisons are computed →

At a glance
Metricclaude-3-7-sonnet-20250219DeepSeek: R1
Known Good Index 74 based on 5 of 7 evaluations 75 based on 4 of 7 evaluations
Blended $/1M $1.15
Output tok/s 20
Context window 64k
Providers 0 2
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Quality

Known Good Index and the capability indices, side by side

Index scores

Each index is min-max normalised across tracked models and scaled 0–100 from published evaluations. We do not run these evaluations.

Metricclaude-3-7-sonnet-20250219DeepSeek: R1
Known Good Index 74 75
Coding Index 71
Mathematics Index 72 74
Reasoning Index 84 77
Openness Index 5 60
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Quality Breakdown

Every evaluation both models report a published score for

Evaluations both models report

Bar = claude-3-7-sonnet-20250219 · marker = DeepSeek: R1 · scores ingested from Epoch AI (CC-BY 4.0), LiveBench (Apache-2.0)

GPQA Diamond77 / 69
Mock AIME 2024–2553 / 53
MATH Level 590 / 93
LiveBench76 / 72
LiveBench Coding75 / 67
LiveBench Data Analysis74 / 70
LiveBench Instruction Following81 / 81
LiveBench Language60 / 49
LiveBench Mathematics79 / 81
LiveBench Reasoning88 / 83

Right-hand figures read claude-3-7-sonnet-20250219 / DeepSeek: R1. claude-3-7-sonnet-20250219 leads on 7 of 10, DeepSeek: R1 on 2.

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Arena Elo

Human preference rating from blind pairwise votes

Arena ratings

Elo from blind pairwise votes, ingested from Arena. Higher is better.

Metricclaude-3-7-sonnet-20250219DeepSeek: R1
Text Arena 1,299 1,372
Text Arena (style controlled) 1,372 1,398
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Price & Cost

Published API pricing by token type

Published pricing

USD per 1M tokens. Blended is a 3:1 input:output mix. Live from OpenRouter, cross-checked against models.dev. Lower is better.

Metricclaude-3-7-sonnet-20250219DeepSeek: R1
Input $/1M $0.70
Output $/1M $2.50
Blended $/1M $1.15
Cache read $/1M
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We publish blended price rather than cost-per-task. Cost-per-task requires token counts from an evaluation suite we do not run. Blended price is computed from published rates and is fully reproducible — see the pricing methodology.

Context Window

Maximum input accepted and maximum output emitted

Context and output limits

Provider-declared limits, from metadata via models.dev and OpenRouter. Higher is better.

Metricclaude-3-7-sonnet-20250219DeepSeek: R1
Context window 64k
Max output tokens 16k
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Speed & Latency

Mean throughput and time to first token across hosting providers, over successful measurements from the last 48 hours

Throughput and latency

Means across all tracked providers over successful measurements from the last 48 hours, derived from OpenRouter endpoint telemetry.

Metricclaude-3-7-sonnet-20250219DeepSeek: R1
Output tokens/s 20
Time to first token 1.1s
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Providers

Which hosts serve each model, and at what price and speed

2 hosts
Full provider benchmarks →
Provider claude-3-7-sonnet-20250219 blendedclaude-3-7-sonnet-20250219 tok/s DeepSeek: R1 blendedDeepSeek: R1 tok/s
Novita $1.15 16
Azure · first party $2.60

Per-host pricing and telemetry from OpenRouter. A dash means that host does not serve that model.

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Pricing & providers — OpenRouter Metadata — models.dev Benchmarks — Epoch AI (CC-BY 4.0)Benchmarks — LiveBench (Apache-2.0)Elo — Arena Full attribution →