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Claude Sonnet 4.6 vs DeepSeek V3.2 Speciale

Anthropic vs DeepSeek — benchmarks, pricing, and capabilities side by side.

  • DeepSeek V3.2 Speciale has the higher intelligence index (89.9 vs 76.3)
  • DeepSeek V3.2 Speciale is cheaper ($0.29 vs $3.00 per 1M input)
  • Claude Sonnet 4.6 has a larger context window (1M)
Claude Sonnet 4.6DeepSeek V3.2 Speciale
Intelligence index76.389.9
DeveloperAnthropicDeepSeek
TypeLLMLLM
AccessAPI onlyOpen weights
Context window1,000,000 tokens163,840 tokens
Input price$3.00 / 1M$0.29 / 1M
Output price$15.00 / 1M$0.43 / 1M
Speed75 tok/s
ReleasedFebruary 17, 2026December 1, 2025
Parameters
Input modalitiesText, ImageText
Output modalitiesTextText

Shared benchmarks

Claude Sonnet 4.6
DeepSeek V3.2 Speciale
GPQA Diamond
87.5
87.1
Humanity’s Last Exam
30
26.1