claude-sonnet-5 vs deepseek-flash
claude-sonnet-5 is paused.A paused model is switched off for now and cannot be called. Its figures below are the latest this site has for it.
- claude-sonnet-5
- 1 advantage
- deepseek-flash
- 1 advantage
How to choose
claude-sonnet-5Cheaper: about $0.004 a reply, 27% less
deepseek-flashOpen weights
claude-sonnet-5
By Anthropic
Use in chatDetails
deepseek-flash
By DeepSeekNew this week
Where they differ
claude-sonnet-5deepseek-flash
On this site
—Availability, last 3 days100%656 calls
—Availability, this week's tests100%660 tests
—Average response this week0.7s
$0.004Price per reply$0.0055
UnrankedPlace in this week's ranking#2
$15.00Price per million characters—
The model itself
128K tokensLongest reply384K tokens
Jan 2026Knowledge cutoffMay 2025
30 Jun 2026Released10 Sep 2026
NoOpen weightsYes
Where they match
- Context length1M tokens
- Reads imagesYes
- Calls toolsYes
- Thinks before answeringYes
- Conversations used for trainingUsed to train and improve the provider’s models
Availability over 3 days counts every call made through the site; this week's availability counts every call over the last 7 days, scheduled tests included, and response time comes from the site's own scheduled tests. Free models are counted in calls; big models are charged by usage, in US dollars.
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