DeepSeek V4 Flash vs Claude 4.5 Sonnet (thinking)

Detailed comparison of capabilities, features, and performance.

DeepSeek V4 Flash

DeepSeek V4 Flash

DeepSeek
VS
Claude 4.5 Sonnet (thinking)

Claude 4.5 Sonnet (thinking)

Anthropic
Feature DeepSeek V4 Flash Claude 4.5 Sonnet (thinking)
AI Lab DeepSeek Anthropic
Context Size 1,000,000 tokens 1,000,000 tokens
Max Output Size 131,072 tokens 64,000 tokens
Frontier Model No Yes
Vision Support No Yes
Description Official release of DeepSeek-V4-Flash, superseding the preview version, with substantially enhanced agentic capabilities. 304B parameters with a 1M token context window and a speculative decoding module attached for fast inference. Hosted via Fireworks. The latest Claude 4.5 Sonnet model from Anthropic with maximum reasoning enabled, 200k reasoning tokens in 1M context.

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