Claude 3.7 Sonnet vs DeepSeek-R1

A direct, empirical evaluation of Claude 3.7 Sonnet (Anthropic) against DeepSeek-R1 (DeepSeek-AI).

Claude 3.7 Sonnet

Developed by Anthropic · Proprietary parameters

Enterprise software engineering, full-repo refactoring, and agentic workflows.

DeepSeek-R1

Developed by DeepSeek-AI · 671B parameters

Olympiad mathematics, logic verification, and autonomous thinking chains.

Metric Claude 3.7 Sonnet DeepSeek-R1
SWE-bench Verified 70.3% 49.2%
MMLU-Pro 82.1% 84%
MATH-500 96.2% 97.3%
Context Window 200,000 tokens 128,000 tokens
Input Pricing (per 1M) $3.00 $0.55
Output Pricing (per 1M) $15.00 $2.19