Claude Haiku 4.5 vs DeepSeek R1-0528
Anthropic Claude Haiku 4.5 | DeepSeek DeepSeek R1-0528 | |
|---|---|---|
| Overview | ||
| Company | Anthropic | DeepSeek |
| Release date | Oct 15 2025 | May 28 2025 |
| Access | Proprietary | Open Weight |
| Benchmarks | ||
Nonsense detection BullshitBench v2Given a confidently-worded but nonsensical prompt, does the AI spot that it makes no sense and push back — instead of playing along and inventing an answer? The score is how often it clearly called out the nonsense. Higher is better. | 77%Best | 8% |
Coding SWE-Bench VerifiedReal coding tasks pulled from open-source projects — the AI has to find and fix actual bugs. A human-checked version of the original SWE-Bench. Higher is better. | 73.3% | — |
Science GPQA DiamondGraduate-level science questions in biology, physics, and chemistry — hard enough that subject-matter PhDs score around 65%. Higher is better. | 73% | — |
| Timeline | ||
| Release gap | DeepSeek R1-0528 shipped 140 days before Claude Haiku 4.5 | |
Which is better: Claude Haiku 4.5 or DeepSeek R1-0528?
Claude Haiku 4.5 leads DeepSeek R1-0528 on 1 of the 1 benchmark they both report (BullshitBench v2). DeepSeek R1-0528 shipped 140 days before Claude Haiku 4.5, so benchmark comparisons should account for the intervening progress.
Claude Haiku 4.5 is proprietary, while DeepSeek R1-0528 is open weight.
On BullshitBench v2, Claude Haiku 4.5 leads at 77% vs DeepSeek R1-0528 at 8%.
Frequently asked questions
Claude Haiku 4.5 was released by Anthropic on Oct 15 2025.
DeepSeek R1-0528 was released by DeepSeek on May 28 2025.
Claude Haiku 4.5 is a proprietary model released by Anthropic. DeepSeek R1-0528 is an open weight model released by DeepSeek.
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