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Claude Sonnet 4.5 vs DeepSeek-Math

Anthropic
Claude Sonnet 4.5
DeepSeek
DeepSeek-Math
Overview
CompanyAnthropicDeepSeek
Release dateSep 29 2025Apr 3 2024
AccessProprietaryOpen Weight
Benchmarks
Nonsense detection
BullshitBench v2
79%
Coding
SWE-Bench Verified
77.2%
Next.js coding
Next.js Evals
50%
Science
GPQA Diamond
83.4%
Multimodal
MMMU
68%
Timeline
Release gapDeepSeek-Math shipped 544 days before Claude Sonnet 4.5

Which is better: Claude Sonnet 4.5 or DeepSeek-Math?

Claude Sonnet 4.5 and DeepSeek-Math don't publish scores on any of the same benchmarks, so there's no direct head-to-head comparison. DeepSeek-Math shipped 544 days before Claude Sonnet 4.5, so benchmark comparisons should account for the intervening progress.

Claude Sonnet 4.5 is proprietary, while DeepSeek-Math is open weight.

Direct benchmark comparisons are unavailable — Claude Sonnet 4.5 and DeepSeek-Math don't publish scores on any of the same benchmarks.

Frequently asked questions

Claude Sonnet 4.5 was released by Anthropic on Sep 29 2025.

DeepSeek-Math was released by DeepSeek on Apr 3 2024.

Claude Sonnet 4.5 is a proprietary model released by Anthropic. DeepSeek-Math is an open weight model released by DeepSeek.

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