Claude Sonnet 4.5 vs DeepSeek V3.2 Exp
Compare Claude Sonnet 4.5 by Anthropic against DeepSeek V3.2 Exp by DeepSeek, in 7 community votes, claude sonnet 4.5 wins 71% of head-to-head duels, context windows of 200K vs 164K, tested across 43 shared challenges.
Web Design: Claude Sonnet 4.5 wins 75% of votes
Reasoning: Claude Sonnet 4.5 wins 67% of votes
Our Verdict
Claude Sonnet 4.5Winner
DeepSeek V3.2 ExpRunner-up
Pick Claude Sonnet 4.5. In 7 blind votes, Claude Sonnet 4.5 wins 71% of the time. That's not luck.
Claude Sonnet 4.5 particularly excels in Web Design, Reasoning. DeepSeek V3.2 Exp is 38x cheaper per token — worth considering if cost matters.
Clear winner
API pricing
Cost per 1M tokens
Claude Sonnet 4.5
Input
$3.00
Output
$15.00
DeepSeek V3.2 Exp
Input
$0.20
15× cheaper
Output
$0.40
38× cheaper
DeepSeek V3.2 Exp is cheaper on both — 15× input, 38× output
Writing DNA
Style Comparison
Similarity
63%
Claude Sonnet 4.5 uses 29.3x more emoji
Claude Sonnet 4.5
DeepSeek V3.2 Exp
64%Vocabulary55%
94wSentence Length17w
0.48Hedging0.44
4.9Bold5.8
8.0Lists4.2
0.45Emoji0.02
1.91Headings0.95
0.07Transitions0.03
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