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Claude Haiku 4.5 vs DeepSeek Coder V2

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Anthropic
Claude Haiku 4.5
DeepSeek
DeepSeek Coder V2
Overview
CompanyAnthropicDeepSeek
Release dateOct 15 2025Jun 2024
Model type
Open sourceNoYes
Specifications
Parameters
Context window
Benchmarks
Science reasoning
GPQA Diamond
73%
Software engineering
SWE-Bench Verified
73.3%
Multimodal understanding
MMMU
Timeline
Release gapDeepSeek Coder V2 shipped 501 days before Claude Haiku 4.5

Which is better: Claude Haiku 4.5 or DeepSeek Coder V2?

Claude Haiku 4.5 leads DeepSeek Coder V2 on 2 of the tracked benchmarks (GPQA Diamond, SWE-Bench Verified, MMMU). DeepSeek Coder V2 shipped 501 days before Claude Haiku 4.5, so benchmark comparisons should account for the intervening progress.

DeepSeek Coder V2 is an open-source / open-weight model; Claude Haiku 4.5 is proprietary.

Direct benchmark comparisons are unavailable — at least one of these models has not published scores on GPQA Diamond, SWE-Bench Verified, or MMMU.

Frequently asked questions

When was Claude Haiku 4.5 released?
Claude Haiku 4.5 was released by Anthropic on Oct 15 2025.
When was DeepSeek Coder V2 released?
DeepSeek Coder V2 was released by DeepSeek on Jun 2024.
Is Claude Haiku 4.5 or DeepSeek Coder V2 open source?
DeepSeek Coder V2 is an open-source / open-weight model released by DeepSeek. Claude Haiku 4.5 is a proprietary model released by Anthropic.

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