Claude 3.7 Sonnet vs DeepSeek R1
Compare Claude 3.7 Sonnet by Anthropic against DeepSeek R1 by DeepSeek, in 83 community votes, deepseek r1 wins 54% of head-to-head duels, context windows of 200K vs 128K, tested across 54 shared challenges.
Reasoning: DeepSeek R1 wins 58% of votes
Web Design: Claude 3.7 Sonnet wins 79% of votes
Image Generation: DeepSeek R1 wins 57% of votes
Conversation: DeepSeek R1 wins 67% of votes
Analysis: DeepSeek R1 wins 80% of votes
Our Verdict
DeepSeek R1Winner
Claude 3.7 SonnetRunner-up
DeepSeek R1 has the edge overall. In 83 blind votes, DeepSeek R1 wins 54% of the time.
Pick Claude 3.7 Sonnet for Web Design. Pick DeepSeek R1 for Analysis, Conversation, Reasoning. DeepSeek R1 is 6.8x cheaper per token — worth considering if cost matters.
Slight edge
API pricing
Cost per 1M tokens
Claude 3.7 Sonnet
Input
$3.00
Output
$15.00
DeepSeek R1
Input
$0.55
5.5× cheaper
Output
$2.19
6.8× cheaper
DeepSeek R1 is cheaper on both — 5.5× input, 6.8× output
Writing DNA
Style Comparison
Similarity
37%
DeepSeek R1 uses 4.3x more emoji
Claude 3.7 Sonnet
DeepSeek R1
62%Vocabulary62%
35wSentence Length15w
0.99Hedging0.52
1.2Bold8.0
4.3Lists5.7
0.00Emoji0.04
1.78Headings0.62
0.23Transitions0.28
Based on 13 + 22 text responses
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