What is the difference between Claude 3.7 Thinking Sonnet and DeepSeek R1?

Claude 3.7 Thinking Sonnet is developed by Anthropic while DeepSeek R1 is developed by DeepSeek. Claude 3.7 Thinking Sonnet has a 200K token context window vs DeepSeek R1's 128K. in 26 community votes on Rival, Claude 3.7 Thinking Sonnet wins 77% of head-to-head matchups. These results are based on blind head-to-head voting across 53 challenges.

Which is better, Claude 3.7 Thinking Sonnet or DeepSeek R1?

Based on 26 community votes on Rival, Claude 3.7 Thinking Sonnet wins 77% of head-to-head matchups against DeepSeek R1. Claude 3.7 Thinking Sonnet is strongest in Web Design, Image Generation, Reasoning.

How much does Claude 3.7 Thinking Sonnet cost compared to DeepSeek R1?

Claude 3.7 Thinking Sonnet costs $6/M input tokens and DeepSeek R1 costs $0.55/M input tokens. DeepSeek R1 is $5.45/M cheaper per input. The more expensive model wins 77% of duels, so the premium may be justified by quality.

How are Claude 3.7 Thinking Sonnet vs DeepSeek R1 votes collected on Rival?

Rival presents both models' outputs side-by-side in blind duels. Voters see the responses but don't know which model produced each one, eliminating brand bias. 26 votes have been collected for this pair across 53 challenges. All vote data is part of Rival's open dataset.

Updated Feb 2025

Claude 3.7 Thinking SonnetvsDeepSeek R1

Claude 3.7 Thinking Sonnet wins 77% of 26 blind community votes against DeepSeek R1 on Rival.

Claude 3.7 Thinking Sonnet and DeepSeek R1 compared across 53 shared prompts
Spec	Claude 3.7 Thinking Sonnet	DeepSeek R1
Win rate	77%	24%
Input price	$6/M tokens	$0.55/M tokens
Output price	$30/M tokens	$2.19/M tokens
Context window	200K tokens	128K tokens
Parameters	Not disclosed	671B (37B active)
Weights	—	Open
Free API (OpenRouter)	No	No
Released	Feb 2025	Feb 2025
MMLU	77.1%	83.4%