DeepSeek V4-Flash vs Claude Haiku 4.5

Best cell per row highlighted. Null means undisclosed — never counted as zero.

DeepSeek
DeepSeek V4-Flashretired
8.7
AI Panel
Anthropic
Claude Haiku 4.5GA
8.4
AI Panel

Identity & lifecycle

ProviderDeepSeekAnthropic
Family / tierDeepSeek V4 · FlashClaude 4 · Haiku
StatusretiredGA
Released2026-04-242025-10-15
Knowledge cutoff2026-022025-02

Architecture & context

Context window1M200K
Max output tokens384K64K
Input modalitiestexttext, image
Reasoning modeoptionaloptional
Open weightsYesNo

Pricing (per Mtok)

Input$0.14$1
Output$0.28$5
Cached input$0.0028$0.1
Batch input—$0.5
Free tierYesYes

Speed

Output speed (tok/s)—101.8
Time to first token (s)—0.86
Latency tierfastfast

Trust & deployment

Trains on inputsYesNo
LicenseMITProprietary
Clouds—Bedrock, Vertex AI, Azure AI Foundry
Compliance—SOC2, HIPAA, GDPR, ISO27001

AI Panel scoring

Unified score8.78.4
Decision Maker8.58.5
Domain Strategist8.58.5
Finance Lead9.710
Domain Practitioner8.58.5
Power User88
Skeptic7.57.5
Value score9.99.8

Benchmarks

MMLU-Pro86.276
GPQA Diamond88.167.2
SWE-bench Verified7973.3
LiveCodeBench91.6—
Terminal-Bench—41.75
MRCR Long Context78.7—
SimpleQA34.1—
Humanity's Last Exam34.8—
LMArena Elo14381415
LMArena Coding Elo14831482

Scores link to their sources. Missing cells mean the vendor hasn't disclosed a result — honesty over padding.