2 vs 0 benchmarks won
Anthropic Claude Sonnet 4 | DeepSeek DeepSeek V2 | |
|---|---|---|
| Overview | ||
| Company | Anthropic | DeepSeek |
| Release date | May 22 2025 | May 2024 |
| Model type | — | — |
| Open source | No | Yes |
| Specifications | ||
Parameters | — | — |
Context window | — | — |
| Benchmarks | ||
Science reasoning GPQA Diamond | 75.4% | — |
Software engineering SWE-Bench Verified | 72.7% | — |
Multimodal understanding MMMU | — | — |
| Timeline | ||
| Release gap | DeepSeek V2 shipped 386 days before Claude Sonnet 4 | |
Claude Sonnet 4 leads DeepSeek V2 on 2 of the tracked benchmarks (GPQA Diamond, SWE-Bench Verified, MMMU). DeepSeek V2 shipped 386 days before Claude Sonnet 4, so benchmark comparisons should account for the intervening progress.
DeepSeek V2 is an open-source / open-weight model; Claude Sonnet 4 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.