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Claude Sonnet 5.5 vs Deepseek v4 Pro High

Verdict
  • Claude Sonnet 5.5 (max) leads on quality: 67.6 vs 60.0.
  • Claude Sonnet 5.5 (max) is stronger in agents & tools, coding, composite, knowledge, long context, maths, reasoning.
  • Deepseek v4 Pro High (high) is stronger in human preference.
MetricClaude Sonnet 5.5 (max)Deepseek v4 Pro High (high)
BenchLeader Index67.660.0
Agents & tools score69.5–
Coding score69.857.2
Composite score72.6–
Knowledge score65.4–
Long context score66.6–
Maths score72.965.2
Reasoning score81.165.4
Human preference score–65.7
Blended price $/M$4.00–
Output speed141 tok/s–
Time to first answer487.1 s–
Context window1M–
GPQA Diamond95.6%90.9%
FrontierMath Tiers 1–388.8%–
FrontierMath Tier 480.5%–
OTIS Mock AIME100.0%95.6%
SimpleQA Verified46.5%–
Terminal-Bench61.8%–
SciCode61.0%46.4%
WeirdML–46.5%
APEX-Agents75.5%–
ProofBench100.0%–
LMArena Text–1465
LMArena Hard Prompts–1483
LMArena Coding–1506
LMArena WebDev–1582
LMArena Agent12–
LiveBench75.7%–
LiveBench Reasoning91.6%–
LiveBench Coding91.4%–
LiveBench Agentic Coding56.3%–
LiveBench Mathematics96.1%–
LiveBench Data Analysis59.5%–
LiveBench Language78.0%–
LiveBench Instruction Following56.8%–
AA Intelligence Index v4.3.256–
AA-LCR82.7%–
AA-Omniscience32.3–
Humanity's Last Exam (AA)55.0%–
SciCode (AA)61.0%–
CritPt31.4%–
GDPval-AA v2.167.0%–
Analyst Agent (AA)57.5%–
LMArena Maths–1466
LMArena Creative Writing–1446
LMArena Instruction Following–1461
LMArena Multi-turn–1472
LMArena Longer Queries–1475
Chess Puzzles–13.0%
Mystery Game Puzzles65.0%–
CL-bench Life–13.5%
Surface Evolver Bench–40.0%
CursorBench55.5%–
ALE-Bench–1006.1
FrontierSWE61.9%–
Terminal-Bench 4.0 (AA)63.6%–
AutomationBench71.8%–
GDP.pdf25.8%–
MLCR75.0%–
Harvey LAB2.8%–
AA-Omniscience: accuracy54.0%–
AA-Omniscience: non-hallucination53.0%–
AA-Briefcase v1.11823–

Data as of 2026-10-11. Best configuration of each model; every score links to its source on the model pages.

Claude Sonnet 5.5 vs Deepseek v4 Pro High: questions

Is Claude Sonnet 5.5 better than Deepseek v4 Pro High?
Claude Sonnet 5.5 (max) leads on quality: 67.6 vs 60.0. The BenchLeader Index combines every independent quality benchmark; Claude Sonnet 5.5 (max) is ahead overall as of 2026-10-11, but check the category scores for your use.
Is Claude Sonnet 5.5 better than Deepseek v4 Pro High for coding?
Claude Sonnet 5.5 scores higher in coding (70 vs 57 on the category index, where 50 is average).