claude-sonnet-4-6 vs deepseek-v4-flash
Pricing, Performance & Features Comparison
Claude Sonnet 4.6 is Anthropic's best combination of speed and intelligence, delivering frontier performance across coding, agents, and professional work at scale. It features advanced capabilities including extended and adaptive thinking, supports a 1M token context window, and excels in reasoning, coding, multilingual tasks, long-context handling, and image processing with a training data cutoff of January 2026.
Input$3
Output$15
Latency (p50)2.3s
Output Limit128K
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Latency (24h)
Success Rate (24h)
Context Length1M
Reasoning
Providers1
ReleasedApr 2026
Knowledge Cutoff–
LicenseMIT License
Mixture-of-Experts model with 284B total parameters and 13B activated per token. Features hybrid attention architecture for efficient 1M context processing.
Input$0.14
Output$0.28
Latency (p50)2.6s
Output Limit384K
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in$0.14out$0.28cache$0.028write$0.14