Models

Claude Sonnet 4.6 vs DeepSeek V4 Flash

Compare Claude Sonnet 4.6 from Anthropic and DeepSeek V4 Flash from DeepSeek on key metrics including benchmarks, price, context length, and other model features. Access both models and hundreds of others through the AIHubMix API.

AnthropicClaude Sonnet 4.6DeepSeekDeepSeek V4 Flash
Anthropic logo
Claude Sonnet 4.6
Anthropic · text, image, pdf → text

Claude Sonnet 4.6 delivers frontier intelligence at scale—built for coding, agents, and enterprise workflows. Use cases include: Agents: Sonnet 4.6 excels at complex, multi-step tasks requiring sustained reasoning and adaptive decision-making—ideal for workflows where reliability and autonomy matter most. Coding: Sonnet 4.6 is built for iterative development work, handling complex codebases without losing quality as you guide it through building, refactoring, and debugging. It can compress multi-day projects into hours with the technical depth to deliver production-ready solutions. Enterprise workflows: Sonnet 4.6 powers agents that manage professional projects from start to finish, leveraging memory to maintain context across files with a step-change improvement in creating spreadsheets, slides, and docs. Financial analysis: Sonnet 4.6 connects the dots across regulatory filings, market reports, and internal data—enabling sophisticated modeling and proactive compliance. Cybersecurity: Sonnet 4.6 brings professional-grade analysis to security workflows, correlating logs, vulnerability databases, and threat intelligence for proactive threat detection and automated incident response. Computer use: Sonnet 4.6 delivers confident, consistent navigation with more human-like browsing—enabling better web QA, workflow automation, and advanced user experiences.

Input$3 /M
Output$15 /M
DeepSeek logo
DeepSeek V4 Flash
DeepSeek · text → text

(This model currently points to the older 0423 version; if you need to request the latest version, you can choose the model deepseek-v4-flash-0731)DeepSeek-V4 features an ultra-long context of one million characters and achieves leading performance domestically and in the open-source domain in agent capabilities, world knowledge, and reasoning.

Input$0.142 /M
Output$0.284 /M
Cache read$0.0284 /M

Pricing & Specifications

Prices are per million tokens. Time to First Token and throughput are rolling averages measured on AIHubMix.

Claude Sonnet 4.6
DeepSeek V4 Flash
Input /M
$3
$0.142
Output /M
$15
$0.284
Cache read /M
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$0.0284
Context length
1,000,000
1,000,000
Max output
128,000
384,000
Time to First Token
0.8 s
1.0 s
Throughput
74.2 tok/s
66.5 tok/s
Modalities
textimagepdf
text
Supported Parameters
thinkingtoolsfunction callingstructured outputs
toolsfunction callingstructured outputsthinking
API Formats
chat_completions · gemini_api · claude_api
chat_completions · claude_api
Released
February 17, 2026
April 24, 2026

Promotional prices show the discounted rate; see each model page for promotion windows.

Activity Past 30 Days

Daily traffic served through AIHubMix — how demand for each model is trending.

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Tokens / day

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Requests / day

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Performance Past 3 Days

Measured on real AIHubMix traffic, hourly buckets. Gaps mean no traffic in that hour.

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Throughput (tok/s)

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TTFT (s)

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Uptime (%)

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LMArena Benchmarks

LMArena ratings by capability (Bradley-Terry, commonly called Elo). Higher is better.

Text
claude-sonnet-4-6deepseek-v4-flash
1380144015001560
Overall
14361472
Coding
14831528
Math
14261463
Hard prompts
14591504
Instruction following
14281476
Multi-turn
14521481
Creative writing
14081450
Longer query
14481493
Chinese
14731506
English
14451483

Source: LMArena (arena.ai) leaderboard, imported by AIHubMix. Models without published ratings are omitted per chart.

Cost calculator

Estimate your monthly bill for the same workload on each model.

DeepSeek V4 Flash
$12.78 /mo
Claude Sonnet 4.6
$405 /mo

Monthly = daily × 30. Discounted rates applied where a promotion is active.

FAQ

Which is cheaper: Claude Sonnet 4.6, DeepSeek V4 Flash?

DeepSeek V4 Flash: $0.284/M output tokens; Claude Sonnet 4.6: $15/M. Use the cost calculator above to estimate your own workload.

How do their coding arena scores compare?

Claude Sonnet 4.6: 1528; DeepSeek V4 Flash: 1483 (LMArena coding leaderboard).

Which responds faster?

Claude Sonnet 4.6: 0.8s time to first token measured on AIHubMix; see the live performance charts above for how each model behaves across the day.

How large is each context window?

Claude Sonnet 4.6 accepts 1,000,000 and DeepSeek V4 Flash accepts 1,000,000 input tokens. Maximum output per request is 128,000 tokens on Claude Sonnet 4.6 and 384,000 tokens on DeepSeek V4 Flash.

Which one generates tokens faster?

Claude Sonnet 4.6 at 74.2 tok/s and DeepSeek V4 Flash at 66.5 tok/s, measured as output throughput on AIHubMix — a separate metric from time to first token.

What inputs and capabilities does each model support?

Claude Sonnet 4.6 accepts text, image and PDF input and supports thinking, tool calling, function calling and structured outputs; DeepSeek V4 Flash accepts text input and supports tool calling, function calling, structured outputs and thinking.

Can I call Claude Sonnet 4.6 and DeepSeek V4 Flash with the same API key?

Yes. AIHubMix serves every model on this page behind one OpenAI-compatible endpoint, so switching between them is a one-line change to the model field — no second account, key or SDK.

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