Model comparison
Claude Sonnet 5.5 vs DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024)
Claude Sonnet 5.5 has enough public results to be ranked (#10); DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.
Last verified . 1 shared benchmarks.
DeepSeekSummary
- They share 1 benchmark with published results for both. Claude Sonnet 5.5 scores higher in 1 category and DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) in 0 categories; one gap is clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in coding, where Claude Sonnet 5.5 leads 67.3 to 40.4.
- DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Claude Sonnet 5.5 | DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | DeepSeek |
| Noometry Index | 61.9 | 40.3 |
| Released | 2026-09-28 | 2024-05-07 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | 1M | — |
| Max output | 128K | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | $2 | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | $10 | — |
| Results tracked | 32 | 10 |
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Category by category
Coding Claude Sonnet 5.5 leads
Claude Sonnet 5.5: 67.3 (#6), DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024): 40.4 (#139)
| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 5.5 | DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| FrontierCode | 52.1% | — |
| CursorBench | 55.5% | — |
| LMArena WebDev | 1774 | — |
| FrontierSWE | 61.9% | — |
| SciCode | 61% | — |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 48.9% |
| LMArena Coding | 1513 | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 59.4% |
| ALE-Bench | 1,819 | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Claude Sonnet 5.5: 45.0 (#16), DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024): —
| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 5.5 | DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| APEX-Agents | 75.5% | — |
Reasoning Not comparable
Claude Sonnet 5.5: 54.0 (#28), DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024): —
| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 5.5 | DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 165.03 | 124.77 |
| NYT Connections (extended) | 80.5% | — |
| CritPt | 31.4% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1495 | — |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | 65% | — |
| BIG-Bench Hard | — | 78.8% |
| HellaSwag | — | 87.1% |
| PIQA | — | 83.9% |
| WinoGrande | — | 86.3% |
Math Not comparable
Claude Sonnet 5.5: 87.9 (#6), DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024): —
| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 5.5 | DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | 88.8% | — |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 | 80.5% | — |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 100% | — |
| ProofBench | 100% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1510 | — |
| FrontierMath Erdős | 2.9% | — |
Knowledge Not comparable
Claude Sonnet 5.5: 66.0 (#12), DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024): —
| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 5.5 | DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 95.6% | — |
| SimpleQA Verified | 46.5% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1540 | — |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | — | 92.2% |
| MMLU | — | 78.4% |
| TriviaQA | — | 80% |
Multimodal Not comparable
Claude Sonnet 5.5: 51.5 (#6), DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024): —
| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 5.5 | DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1289 | — |
| Furniture Assembly | 75% | — |
Multilingual Not comparable
Claude Sonnet 5.5: 55.3 (#30), DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024): —
| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 5.5 | DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1452 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1522 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1451 | — |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Claude Sonnet 5.5: 78.3 (#11), DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024): —
| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 5.5 | DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1495 | — |
Long Context Not comparable
Claude Sonnet 5.5: 45.9 (#28), DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024): —
| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 5.5 | DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1498 | — |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Claude Sonnet 5.5: 66.0 (#40), DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024): —
| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 5.5 | DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1471 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1465 | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1474 | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Claude Sonnet 5.5 better than DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024)?
Claude Sonnet 5.5 has enough public results to be ranked (#10); DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.
Is Claude Sonnet 5.5 or DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) better for coding?
Claude Sonnet 5.5 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 67.3 versus 40.4 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Claude Sonnet 5.5 and DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) share?
1 benchmark has published results for both models. Claude Sonnet 5.5 has 32 scored results on Noometry and DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) has 10.